Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme – Call for the Expression of Interest

The European Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities (CoE AI4DH) invites postdoctoral researchers to apply for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) with CoE AI4DH as their host institution.

What is an The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship?

The Marie-Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship is a post-doc research and training programme that enables fellows to acquire new skills and competences by working on a specific research project in a new environment and through collaboration with both the academic and non-academic sectors. The programme is open to all fields of research.

One proposal, two opportunities:

The European Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities is located at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Slovenia is classified as a Widening country, an EU Member State with below-average performance in research and innovation (R&I). Through Horizon Europe, the EU aims to reduce this gap by providing additional funding, networking opportunities, and capacity-building measures to these countries. One such measure is linked to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. If you apply for an MSCA-PF with a host institution in Slovenia, you are automatically also considered for an ERA Fellowship.

The ERA Fellowship builds on the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme and is open to researchers who wish to carry out a research project by moving to a Widening country within the EU.

→ This means that with a single application, you are considered for two funding opportunities, increasing your chances of success.

Our topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Natural language processing tools for historical newspaper analysis 
• Comparative analysis of historical newspaper collections 
• Producing semantics data and evaluation datasets from lexical resources 
• Injecting knowledge into large language models 
• AI infrastructure for data-driven folkloristics 
•  Explanation of generative large language models 
• Tools for social science analyses of news media in less-resourced languages 

Who is eligible to apply?

Research experience: Applicants must hold a PhD and maximum of 8 years of full-time equivalent research experience, calculated from the date of award of the doctoral degree.

Mobility rule: Applicants may be of any nationality but must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Slovenia for more than 12 months during the three years preceding the call deadline (European Fellowships), or must not have resided or worked in the third country hosting the outgoing phase for more than 12 months during the three years preceding the call deadline (Global Fellowships).

How to express your interest:

We are seeking experienced researchers who will hold a doctoral degree by the call deadline.

If you are interested, please send your CV and a brief project idea. We will review all submissions, shortlist candidates, and contact them with further information about the next steps. Please send your documents to info@ai4dh.eu.

If you decide to apply to the MSCA PF call in 2026 with University of Ljubljana as your host institution, you will receive comprehensive support from University Office for Research at UL throughout the entire application process. This includes participation in a two-day intensive MSCA PF MASTERCLASS workshop (covering proposal writing, insights from successful MSCA fellow, guidance on the submission process and much more) as well as a review of your project proposal by external experts at a later stage.

The application deadline for expressions of interest in applying for an MSCA PF with AI4DH is 16 March 2026.