Vacancies

PhD position AI Governance & Regulation – Work Package 6 in the DECIDE Project (Democratizing AI: Empowering Citizens through Transparent Decision-making (1.0 fte)

We are offering a fully funded position for a PhD researcher to conduct empirical legal research on the governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a focus on the Netherlands and the EU.

Your work will be interdisciplinary, collaborating with AI researchers, legal scholars, political economists, and stakeholders from healthcare, business, public governance, and civil society organisations representing different communities. Besides publications in academic journals, you will create widely-accessible reports and policy briefs relating to the democratization of AI use and deployment.

Application deadline: 29 May 2026

External experts and independent observers for 28Digital

External Experts

We are looking for independent external experts who’d like to contribute to the European innovation ecosystem by helping our work to assess innovation and education project proposals.

This is a much appreciated and partially compensated work for experts who are confident in our focus areas of Digital Tech, Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing, and Digital Finance.

If you have a proven entrepreneurial track record in the creation or scaling up of ventures and a venture capital or business angel background this is a great opportunity to see and evaluate innovation projects before anyone else, securing a unique co-investment dealflow.

Independent Observers

We are also seeking independent external observers! Their job would be to observe the work of the evaluation panels, making sure that everything is compliant with the established evaluation process of impartiality, transparency, and objectivity.

Applicants for the role of Observer are required to comply with the following criteria:

• An advanced knowledge of the specific sector of the call where he/she is involved.
• Proven knowledge in evaluation of EU-funded programmes.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal).

To ensure independence and avoid conflicts of interest, experts must not be affiliated in any way with one of our partner organisations, plan to be so, or have been in the last three years.