DARIAH-IE is delighted to announce a bursary scheme to support four Early Career Researchers from Ireland to attend the DARIAH Annual Event, taking place in Rome, Italy from 26-29 May 2026. The theme of this year’s event is: Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement. This bursary initiative reflects DARIAH-IE’s ongoing commitment to fostering the development of Ireland’s digital arts and humanities communities by providing emerging scholars with invaluable opportunities for international networking and professional growth.
The DARIAH Annual Event brings together researchers, technologists, and cultural heritage professionals from across Europe for presentations, poster sessions, workshops, and unparalleled networking opportunities that enable engagement with the latest developments in digital research methods, tools and resources for the digitally-enabled arts and humanities.
Building on the success of last year’s bursary scheme, which supported four Irish researchers to attend the DARIAH Annual Event in Göttingen, Germany, this year’s bursary scheme will again enable early career scholars to participate fully in this event. Previous awardees benefited not only from attending presentations and engaging with leading researchers but also from sharing their own work with the broader digital arts and humanities community via blog posts on the dariah.ie website.
Following the event bursary recipients will be asked to contribute a small media-related piece about the conference (eg interview, blog post, etc.).
The bursary is up to the value of €1000 and can be used to cover the costs of registration, travel, accommodation and subsistence.
Please complete your application using the following form by 5pm on April 2, 2026
Successful candidates will be informed no later than 5pm on April 13, 2026.
Please contact the DARIAH-IE National Office with any application queries you may have.
For more information on the Annual Event please visit: https://annualevent.dariah.eu/
The Small Print
Application Process: As part of the application process you will be required to submit a statement (max 500 words) explaining your interest in attending the DARIAH Annual Event and its relevance to your research or work. You will also be asked to submit a short CV (max 1 page). You must do this using the form provided.
Dates: Applications close at 5pm on April 2, 2026. Successful applicants will be informed no later than 5pm on April 13, 2026. Awardees will be publicly announced on April 27th, 2026.
Eligibility: Applications are open to masters students, doctoral candidates and ECRs in the digitally-enabled arts and humanities — including but not limited to Digital Humanities and Creative Digital Arts — who can demonstrate a strong interest in research infrastructures in their submission. Early career scholars include pre-doctoral students as well as those within 5 years of obtaining their PhD.
Expectations & outputs: Bursary recipients will be asked to contribute a short (c 500 words) media-related piece about the conference (eg interview, blog post etc.) to be submitted within 6 weeks of the conference end date. This will be published on the dariah.ie website and via other DARIAH channels and will also be added to the DARIAH-IE Zotero library and uploaded to the DARIAH community on Zenodo.
Recipients will be asked to participate in a conference workshop organised by DARIAH’s Community Engagement Working Group which will explore the affordances of DARIAH Campus for ECRs.
Selection Process: The selection of awardees will be made by the DARIAH-IE National Office. Successful applicants will be those that demonstrate in their statement a strong interest in research infrastructures and how they relate to or benefit their own work.
- Preference will be given to applicants who do not have access to other sources of travel funding
- The selection committee will endeavour to ensure a geographical balance of awardees
- The selection committee will endeavour to ensure that bursaries are spread across HEIs
The smaller print
Bursary Value: The bursary is up to the value of €1000 and can be used to cover the costs of registration, travel, accommodation and subsistence.
Logistics: You are required to make your own arrangements with regard to registration, travel and accommodation.
Reimbursement: Each recipient will receive up to a maximum €1000, even if their actual costs are higher. Expenses will be reimbursed by DARIAH-IE’s coordinating institution Trinity College Dublin, once all travel has been complete. Reimbursement of reasonable expenses will be in accordance with TCD’s institutional travel & subsistence policies.
Receipts: As it is not possible to provide funds in advance of the event we ask that you retain all receipts which will be reimbursed in a timely manner up to the maximum value of €1000 per bursary.
Still have questions ?
Send your queries to joan.y.murphy@tcd.ie
