University of Ljubljana Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026 Open
If you are a postdoctoral researcher looking for a career-defining opportunity at the crossroads of artificial intelligence and digital humanities, this one deserves your attention. The Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, is actively recruiting candidates for the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) under the Horizon Europe framework.
This is not just another postdoc opportunity — it is a fully supported European research fellowship that comes with structured mentorship, expert proposal writing workshops, and access to a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research environment in one of Central Europe’s most livable capital cities.
The research themes span a fascinating range, from natural language processing for historical newspaper archives and knowledge injection into large language models, to AI infrastructure for data-driven folkloristics and tools for social science analysis of news media in less-resourced languages. For researchers passionate about making AI work for culture, language, and society, this fellowship offers both the intellectual space and the institutional backing to do exactly that.
What the Fellowship Puts in Your Pocket?
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of the most competitively funded individual research grants in Europe, and applicants selected through AI4DH will benefit from the full financial package that the programme offers.
- A living allowance that covers monthly salary, adjusted by a country-specific correction coefficient for Slovenia
- A mobility allowance designed to offset the costs of relocating to a new country for the fellowship period
- A family allowance available to researchers with family obligations at the time of recruitment
- Research, training, and networking costs covered through a dedicated institutional contribution to the host university
- Full access to a two-day intensive MSCA-PF Masterclass workshop at the University of Ljubljana, covering proposal writing, submission strategy, and insights from successful MSCA fellows
- An external expert review of your project proposal at a later stage, provided at no cost through the University Office for Research
Who Can Throw Their Hat in the Ring?
This fellowship is open to talented researchers worldwide, regardless of nationality, provided they meet the programme’s experience and mobility conditions.
- Applicants must hold a doctoral degree by the call deadline
- A maximum of eight years of full-time equivalent postdoctoral research experience is allowed, counted from the date of PhD award
- For European Fellowships, applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity in Slovenia for more than 12 months in the three years before the call deadline
- For Global Fellowships, the same 12-month residency restriction applies to the third country where the outgoing phase would take place
- Research interests should align with one or more of the centre’s focus areas, including but not limited to NLP for historical texts, semantics from lexical resources, explainability of generative language models, and computational tools for under-resourced media landscapes
Mark This Deadline
The deadline to submit your expression of interest for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Ljubljana is Monday, 16 March 2026, at 22:00 CET.