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ELLIS PhD program 2025 – Next call for applications will open in October

Apply by October 31, 2025, to join the ELLIS PhD Program in 2026

The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems offers an interdisciplinary PhD program. The ELLIS PhD program is a key element of the ELLIS initiative and its goal is to foster and educate the best talent in machine learning related research areas by pairing outstanding students with leading academic and industrial researchers in Europe. The program supports excellent PhDs across Europe by giving them access to leading research through boot camps, summer schools and workshops of the ELLIS programs. Every PhD student is supervised by one ELLIS fellow/scholar and one ELLIS member from a different country and conducts a 1 year exchange at the other location.

A virtual info session for prospective PhD candidates will be held on October 1st with information about the whole PhD program, the call for applications, application materials, and timeline.

Deadline for applications: October 31st, 2025

More information about the program and application procedure are available at: https://ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd-program-call-for-applications-2025