DARIAH is seeking a data steward and community manager to be involved in STARDAST, a project funded by the European Commission: “STewardship and Recognition for DAta Science Talent” led by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The aim of this project is to design and implement a pan-European training ecosystem for data experts. This cross-sectoral programme will support professionals across the full data lifecycle – from stewardship and curation to analysis, AI, ethical and legal implications, and policy integration.
You will coordinate the research and analysis on data stewardship roles and workforce integration across institutions, focusing on identifying essential skills, responsibilities, and existing competence centers. You will contribute to the creation of a career development framework for data professionals working in the Digital Humanities sector in particular.
| Post Status | 100% Fixed-term contract until 31.12.2027 (incl. a 3 months probation period) |
| Location | Remote in Germany or France, with the option of office space in Berlin. |
| Closing date for applications | 12.06.2026 |
| Contract start | 01.09.2026 |
| Salary level | Will be determined based on the candidate’s geographical location and professional experience. In Germany for example, the level 12/13 of the “Tarifvertrag für den Öffentlichen Dienst der Länder 2025” would be used as reference. |
Analysis and process of complex information across institutions & policies
Implement and pilot professional ecosystems
Outreach and stakeholder engagement
Finally, you will help capture and share key findings and best practices through accessible formats such as reports, toolkits, and workshops, ensuring knowledge is widely disseminated to the broader research community.
The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.
DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners.
If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment-data-steward@dariah.eu by 12.06.2026 at the latest.
For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.
The third call for contributions to Transformations invites researchers, educators, practitioners, and cultural heritage professionals to reflect on the theme of the DARIAH Annual Event 2026, Digital Arts and Humanities with and for Society.
Guest editors of this volume are Susan Schreibman and Edward Pinot Gray, co-chairs of the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 Programme Committee.
In keeping with the DARIAH Annual Event theme, we invite submissions that explore digitally-enabled research through a public and participatory lens. We welcome contributions that provide the theoretical grounding and case studies for research projects that engage public audiences, addressing questions such as: who is digital scholarship for, what are its social and public benefits, and how can research in the digital arts, humanities, and culture foster new forms of dialogue within the public sphere, including both formal and informal education.
We are particularly interested in reflections on how new technologies can create and mediate new forms of connection: between research or memory institutions and society; through collaborative and participatory engagement; or by creating alternative spaces in which people can interact and co-construct knowledge through hybrid networks of physical and technology-mediated encounters. We also invite contributions that focus on pedagogy and teaching practices that provide opportunities for students to engage in real-world projects through collaborative and participatory approaches.
Whether through research papers, data or workflow papers, we seek contributions that explore how digital, social and institutional infrastructures can support engaged research, while nurturing generosity, participation and shared creativity in the digital arts and humanities.
We welcome contributions on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:
When submitting your contribution, you must choose the right volume (vol. 3 ‘Infrastructures of Engagement’) and the appropriate section (research articles, data papers, workflows) corresponding to the type of submission.
transformations@episciences.org
Editorial Board of Transformations: A DARIAH Journal
Toma Tasovac, Editor-in-Chief
Françoise Gouzi, Managing Editor
Anne Baillot, Managing Editor
Megan Black, Managing Editor
Eliza Papaki, Outreach and Communications Officer
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) is an association for cross-border collaboration on digital scholarship within academia and cultural heritage institutions across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. We bring together a wide range of approaches — from interpretive and theoretical work to computational analysis and cultural analytics — within a shared regional community.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, DHNB is introducing an annual best doctoral dissertation award. We invite our colleagues to nominate outstanding doctoral dissertations that reflect the organisation’s thematic and geographical scope. In addition to the main award, up to three honorary mentions will be granted.
The award committee, appointed by the DHNB Board, will consider all nominated dissertations. Selection will be based on the overall scientific quality of the dissertation and its innovativeness in combining humanities scholarship with digital methods, data, or research topics.
Eligible dissertations are those written in any Nordic or Baltic language, or in English, and defended in the given year. Nominations must be submitted to the DHNB Board no later than 15 December. At the time of nomination, the defence need not yet have taken place, but it must be completed by the end of the year.
The award committee will convene in early January and announce its decision by 15 January. The winning dissertation and any honorary mentions will be recognised at the subsequent DHNB conference in the spring. The recipient of the main award will receive a bursary to attend the conference and will be invited to present their work as an invited speaker in the doctoral consortium there.
We ask the proposals for the award to be submitted via the link below:
DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resources Showcase
Where: DARIAH Annual Event 2026, Rome, Italy
When: Tuesday 26th May from 2-3.30pm
Open to all upon registration!
The DARIAH-EU Community Engagement Working Group and the DARIAH-Campus Editorial Board invite participants to join us during the DARIAH Annual Event in Rome for a DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resource Showcase.
This event will take place on Tuesday 26th May from 2-3.30pm in the Aula Bisconti in the main conference venue.
Please register your intention to attend by completing this form by Friday 22nd May:
This event is targeted at early career researchers, practitioners and those who are currently engaged in training provision as educators (e.g. lecturers, academics, trainers) as well as postgraduate students and lifelong learners.
The session will showcase DARIAH-Campus resources through demonstrations from leading educators, using examples from their own teaching practices. Following the demonstrations a moderated discussion will afford the DARIAH-Campus team the opportunity to gain a deeper insight from the community in how they engage with Open Education Resources (OERs) such as those available on DARIAH-Campus. Potential topics of discussion will include:
Participants in the workshop will leave with a deeper understanding of using DARIAH-Campus as a resource for teaching, training and learning and will also have played an active role in informing and shaping the direction of DARIAH-Campus and the development of training materials in current and future projects (e.g. ATRIUM, ARTEMIS, ECHOES).
If you have any questions please contact Vicky Garnett, DARIAH’s Training and Education Officer and Joan Murphy, Community Engagement WG co-chair.
DARIAH ERIC is seeking a EU Projects & Policy Officer to assist with the day-to-day management of both internal DARIAH projects as well as externally grant-funded ones.
This successful candidate will also play a key role in developing policy, sustainability, and governance documentation, particularly for EU-funded projects in which DARIAH partners. The position holder will support DARIAH’s growth as a European Infrastructure and contribute on its behalf to European projects such as ECHOES, CHIRON and ECHOLOT.
The successful candidate will work in collaborative, international project environments, playing a central role in managing DARIAH projects as well as designing high-quality policy and governance documentation that promotes and sustains network collaboration across a wide European partnership.
The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.
DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners.
If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment@dariah.eu by 29.05.2026 at the latest.
For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.
DARIAH is delighted to publish the latest Spotlight article #dariahTeach is Expanding its Remit: Teaching and Learning across the Digital Arts and Humanities. This article is part of the DARIAH Spotlight campaign, a monthly series that focuses on digital scholarship within the DARIAH network.
Written by Marianne Ping Huang, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture – Comparative Literature, Aarhus University and Monika Barget, Assistant Professor in the History Department, Maastricht University and co-chairs of the #dariahTeach Working Group (WG), this article presents the origins of the #dariahTeach WG, its development since its launch in 2017 and its current plans for expansion.
#dariahTeach has been a DARIAH WG since 2017 with a focus on the #dariahTeach project and platform, which hosts some 30 Open Educational Resources. The guiding principle behind the #dariahTeach platform is to create reusable teaching materials that could easily be integrated into university courses, or could be used by ‘lone learners’, meaning individuals who do not have access to digital humanities expertise. #dariahTeach has since diversified its content beyond the technical to provide courses in areas such as the integration of social justice into digital scholarship and taking a design thinking approach to project design.
The #dariahTeach WG is now expanding its focus beyond the #dariahTeach platform to embrace the wide range of teaching being undertaken by the DARIAH community, from traditional face-to-face teaching, to the development of open educational resources, to workshops, summer schools, and hackathons. The chairs are inviting anyone interested to join them in Rome for the WG meeting organised during the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 to discuss topics such as Research software and coding skills, Accessibility and inclusivity of DH teaching beyond higher education, Artificial intelligence as an opportunity and challenge in DH teaching.
This article is part of DARIAH’s latest outreach campaign, DARIAH Spotlight, which makes research within the DARIAH network more visible. This monthly series will showcase digital scholarship in the humanities, from both DARIAH Working Groups and DH projects within the DARIAH network. Follow this campaign for more Spotlight articles.
The ECHOLOT consortium – “European Cultural Heritage Optimised Linked Open Tools” – is proud to announce the launch of this innovative project, funded by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) under the powers delegated by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme.
ECHOLOT revolutionizes the provision and reuse of high-quality, interoperable Cultural Heritage data with AI-powered enrichment, integrating seamlessly in the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) and empowering the research and creative sectors. Bringing together major initiatives, such as Europeana and the Wikimedia movement, alongside key EU-infrastructure projects, including ECHOES, EOSC, and the Data Space for Cultural Heritage (DS4CH), ECHOLOT contributes innovative, easy-to-use and accessible technical solutions and collaboration models.
The activities and goals of ECHOLOT are based on four main pillars:
ECHOLOT is validated through five real-world case studies, each of which addresses a different cultural heritage-related challenge and demonstrates the project’s impact across the sector.
1. Basque Cultural Heritage Data: Establishing the first comprehensive collection of entity identifiers relevant in Basque cultural heritage and beyond. Enabling the creation, provision and reuse of high-quality, semantically
rich, interoperable cultural data
2. European Literary Bibliography: Transformation and enrichment of multilingual European literary bibliographic data through the use of relevant Linked Open Data resources.
3. Connecting Media Art Collections: Collaborative harmonisation and enrichment of diverse media art collections, connecting previously dispersed artworks and artists.
4. Flemish Fine Arts and Performing Arts Collections: Making the publication of museum data to Wikimedia Commons and Europeana more efficient through a single, integrated workflow, with a particular focus on the Flemish context.
5. Publishing and Round-Tripping GLAM data: Wikimedia Sweden, together with several Swedish GLAM partners, will test the enrichment and multi-output publishing modules of ECHOLOT, especially focusing on workflows for reintegrating (round-tripping) enriched data back into the source databases.
Although the ECHOLOT consortium has only been operational for three months, it has already held two meetings, demonstrating its enthusiasm for shaping the future of cultural heritage data in Europe. The kick-off meeting, which took place online in January, provided an opportunity to review all the work packages and draw up the project’s roadmap for its 36-month duration. The consortium’s second meeting was held in person in Bilbao, Spain, in early March. In addition to addressing all outstanding issues to enable effective work to begin, the meeting was conceived as a requirements gathering workshop co-organised and hosted by the University of the Basque Country. Focusing on gathering input from the case study third-party participants, the workshop included user-centered design activities such as co-designing user personas, user stories and journey maps.
ECHOLOT is a multidisciplinary project bringing together 15 partners from 12 countries who are experts in arts and culture, media studies, information and library science, knowledge engineering, computer science, design and prototyping, management and communication.
DARIAH participates in the project together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW). While OEAW will contribute to the requirements engineering and system design, DARIAH will oversee the evaluation phase ahead of the final release of the ECHOLOT software.
Learn more about ECHOLOT:
Transformations: A DARIAH Journal invites proposals for a special issue. Alongside our annual regular thematic issue, Transformations: A DARIAH Journal publishes special issues that open up additional conversations in the arts and humanities (see our online Procedures for Special Issues).
We hereby invite proposals that:
Special issues follow the same editorial standards and external peer review as regular articles. Guest editors may submit articles, but such submissions will be handled independently and may not exceed 25% of the final special issue.
All special issues:
Transformations actively welcomes proposals for multilingual special issues. They are subject to the same editorial oversight, peer-review standards, and publication ethics as all other contributions to Transformations.
Special issues may be:
Proposals for multilingual issues should:
Proposals are welcome from individuals or teams, from any institution or country, including interdisciplinary and cross-sector editorial teams.
Please fill-in this template form and submit it (in PDF) to transformations@episciences.org with the subject line: Special Issue Proposal.
DARIAH-ERIC is seeking a (Digital) Learning Designer to enhance its expertise in training, digital pedagogy and capacity building.
The successful candidate will support the further development of DARIAH-Campus, DARIAH’s online platform for open educational resources, and advise the DARIAH team on best practices in the design, delivery and evaluation of both online and face-to-face training activities.
The position holder will support DARIAH’s training contributions in current and future European projects in which DARIAH is involved (for example and not limited to ATRIUM, OSCARS, ECHOLOT, HABILITER). They will work in collaborative, international project environments, playing a central role in designing high-quality learning experiences that support user engagement, skills development, and network collaboration across a wide European partnership.
The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.
DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners.
If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment@dariah.eu by 8 May 2026 at the latest.
For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.
The second annual TNA Showcase + Q&A session is taking place on 14th April at 11:00 CET.
TNA participants, prospective applicants, and the wider ATRIUM community are all invited to the session to learn about project outcomes, the different placements available, and to bring any questions they might have about the scheme.
We are excited to feature previous TNA recipients Eric Okoyo (British Institute in Eastern Africa), Martha Mosha (University of Cologne), Daniel Kansaon (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and Dr Nicky Garland (Archaeology Data Service).
Recordings of the session will be made available on the ATRIUM YouTube channel. Previous recordings of the 2025 Showcase are available here.
* This post is republished from the ATRIUM website.
DARIAH invites applications for small grants supporting in-person summer schools and intensive training events in the Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) that will take place in 2026. This programme aims to strengthen training opportunities, expand digital skills in the arts and humanities, and support collaboration across research, education, and cultural heritage communities.
The total allocated to this call is €10,000. Typical grant range: €2,000 – €5,000 per event. Funding may support instructor travel, participant bursaries, teaching materials, technical infrastructure, and organisational expenses related to the event. However, proposals that privilege participant bursaries (travel, accommodation, and daily expenses) will be considered more highly.
Matched funding involving other funding sources is possible.
Events should normally last between 3–10 days and include hands-on digital arts and humanities training.
Applications may be submitted by universities, research institutions, cultural heritage institutions (libraries, archives, museums), or a consortium of partner organisations. The lead institution must be part of a DARIAH national consortium in a DARIAH member state, with the event taking place at the lead institution. For a list of eligible institutions please see the members and partners page on the DARIAH website. Alternatively, non-consortium institutions in DARIAH member states can be lead institutions, but with the written consent of the DARIAH National Representative of their country. Inquiries about the scheme can be made to funding@dariah.eu.
Applications will be assessed based on training quality, relevance to the DARIAH impact, inclusivity and accessibility, and organisational feasibility.
DARIAH’s support should be acknowledged in event communications and on any other materials.
Grant recipients must submit a short report after the event no later than four weeks after the end of the event, summarizing participation, outcomes, and links to training materials where available. Successful applicants will receive 60% of the funding upon signature of a grant agreement between DARIAH and the lead institution, and 40% upon submission of the report. Reports that are submitted after four weeks of the event may not receive the remainder of the funding.
Applications must be submitted by 16 April 2026 at 17:00 CEST*.
* Should the total funding pool remain unexhausted after the initial selection round, the call will move to a rolling application process:
From April 16, 2026 17:00 CEST onwards, applications will be reviewed and granted strictly on a first-come, first-served basis. Applications must still meet all eligibility and quality requirements to be successful.This extension will remain active only until the remaining funds are fully allocated.
Join us for the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026—an opportunity to collaborate and innovate in an interdisciplinary setting. The application period is open (until 14 April 2026) – apply now to be part of this year’s cohort.
People talk about hackathons, but there is only one Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon. #DHH26 is the 11th iteration of our international summer school (aimed primarily at master’s students and beyond), which brings together diverse participants from Finland and across Europe.
In the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon, you will experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration. For everyone, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to address them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon.
Participation in #DHH26 is free for all accepted participants. This year, we also expect to sponsor a limited number of participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (decisions on this to be made after the application period).
The event is organised by FIN-CLARIAH—particularly its DARIAH-FI component—in collaboration with HELDIG and the Department of Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki, as well as Aalto University. We are supported by CLARIN-EU, HIIT, the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History, and Marie Curie Training Networks CASCADE & MECANO. 5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students, and it also functions as a staff training event for leadership and collaboration across disciplinary borders.
For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH25, #DHH24, #DHH23,#DHH22, #DHH21, #DHH19, #DHH18, #DHH17, #DHH16 and #DHH15.
This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following five themes:
See further information on the #DHH26 themes.
17.3.2026 This year’s themes are unveiled, and the application period starts
14.4.2026 Application period ends
27.4.2026 Registration period ends for #DHH26 for accepted participants
4.5. & 11.5.2026 Two #DHH26 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
20.–29.5.2026 #DHH26 hackathon in Helsinki
Please note that we can only accept participants who are able to commit to the full week of intensive work (not just a couple of hours here and there), as well as the preparatory sessions. Thus, if you know that you have other commitments during the hackathon, please consider applying next time when you can make a full commitment.
Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A (see on mapOpens in a new tab)
University of Helsinki
Finland
The hackathon will take place between 20.–29.5.2026. The participants are expected to commit to the hackathon for the whole period; work takes place mainly between 10 AM and 5 PM on weekdays (the weekend is free!). In addition, there are two online pre-sessions on Mondays 4.5. and 11.5., between 2 – 4 PM UTC+03:00 for orientation, group formation and preparation for the intensive hackathon period. The participants are expected to attend also these pre-sessions.
Public presentations of the projects:
29.5.2026 13:00–16:00, Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, room K226.
The event will be streamed at https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l5
General organisers:
You can contact the organisers via email: dhh-hackathon@helsinki.fi.
Are you a humanities student (3rd-year BA, MA, or PhD) using digital methods in your research or thesis? And would you like to present you work to fellow students? We’d love to hear from you!
We – Finn Pietrass and Thomas Rozendaal, student ambassadors at the Centre for Digital Humanities at Utrecht University – are organising a student colloquium: The Digital Humanities Dialogue for Students (date TBA). This event is designed to give students insight into how digital methods can be applied across different humanities disciplines, and to inspire students to explore these approaches themselves.
We are looking for 2 to 3 student speakers from the Faculties of Humanities who are interested in sharing their experiences with digital methods in their studies or a research project. Presentations will be short (approximately 15 minutes) and aimed at a broad student audience. No prior presentation experience is required.
Interested in participating or want to learn more? Get in touch via cdh@uu.nl. The deadline to sign up as a speaker is 12 April. We’d be happy to hear from you!
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DARIAH is delighted to announce the first call for a Signature Project with the goal of developing an innovative and sustainable core service that strengthens and expands DARIAH’s infrastructure. The successful project should deliver clear value to the arts and humanities and address a current need for the research community across Europe. A no less important goal is to stimulate substantial collaboration across DARIAH member states.
Inquiries about the scheme can be made to funding@dariah.eu.
Projects may develop new services from scratch, or extend and/or consolidate existing community services, provided the outputs become part of DARIAH’s core offering. Signature Project funding cannot, however, be used merely for rebranding an existing service without delivering new capabilities.
To ensure long-term sustainability, applicants must define their proposed technology stack, which must align with DARIAH’s recommended technologies (see Technical Requirements below). The DARIAH CTO team will advise and support the project during development, with a focus on interoperability and production-grade deployment.
Signature Projects are expected to demonstrate:
The call is open to national consortium partners in DARIAH Member Countries. Applications should be collaborative and include at least three DARIAH national consortium partners from three DARIAH member countries. The consortium should include a range of institutions which each contribute to the development of the service.
We explicitly encourage applicants to consider a gender balanced constitution of their team.
Applicants must submit their application by 15 July 2026.
There is an option to submit a one-page summary proposal for feedback by 5 June. The one-page proposal can be sent to funding@dariah.eu.
Inquiries about the scheme can be made to funding@dariah.eu.
Construction of the brand-new research facilities for the ILS Labs at Drift 10 is now in full swing. Renovations are progressing rapidly and the soundproof booths that will house the labs are currently being installed. The technical installation of the first labs is expected to start in April.
The labs of the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) are used to study language development in babies and language processing and production in adults. Much of this research involves the use of sound stimuli, which makes soundproof laboratories essential.
Several parts of Drift 10 are currently being renovated and upgraded to accommodate the new facilities. The floors of both the ground floor and first floor are being fortified to support the booths and the ventilation system is being expanded. Once completed, the basement, ground floor, and first floor will house two biolabs, two eye-tracking labs, three phonetics/general-purpose labs, an interaction lab, and a head-turn-preference lab.
Although the move is only a short distance – from Janskerkhof 13 to Drift 10 – it is a major logistical project. To ensure that ongoing research can continue with minimal disruption, the labs will be relocated one at a time. Moving each lab will take several weeks, and the full relocation is expected to be completed by the end of 2026 or beginning of 2027.
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DARIAH ERIC is inviting applications for two new members to join the DARIAH Joint Research Committee (JRC). The JRC plays a central role in shaping and connecting DARIAH’s research, technical development, and innovation activities, facilitating collaboration between DARIAH Working Groups and its executive and governing bodies.
As part of the JRC, members contribute to the strategic direction of DARIAH, helping to develop policies and initiatives that support the future of digital research in the arts and humanities. Alongside supporting the organisation of the DARIAH Annual Event, JRC members engage with an international network of scholars and professionals dedicated to advancing collaboration, innovation, and research excellence across Europe and beyond.
DARIAH’s Joint Research Committee (JRC):
Members of the JRC engage in strategic tasks, are dedicated to community engagement, and hold operational responsibilities. More concretely, a JRC member:
The JRC meets about every 6 weeks, and at least once in a year face to face.
Being a JRC member is an excellent way to make your personal expertise available for the wider network of research infrastructures in the humanities and to shape their future. It is also an opportunity to gain experiences in research management at a European level.
We solicit applications from experts from DARIAH Partner Institutions in DARIAH Member and Observer countries.
JRC members are selected and appointed by the Board of Directors as individuals based on their expertise and disciplinary focus. No formal legal framework between DARIAH and the DARIAH Partner Institution employing the JRC member is foreseen. However, in the case a member requires formal institutional recognition to secure their time dedicated to the JRC, DARIAH may provide a letter of appointment or a bilateral agreement tailored to the specific needs of the JRC member.
Please note that this appointment is not a paid position. However, DARIAH covers occasional travel expenses, such as to DARIAH Strategy Days and the Annual Event). The time and commitment is eligible as an official contribution of your country to DARIAH (so-called ‘in-kind’ contributions). So, please contact your DARIAH National Coordinator (see list) while preparing your application.
The appointment is usually for 3 years and can be renewed once.
The application should include a motivation letter (max one page) in which you elaborate why you wish to join the JRC, what expertise you bring to this body including how you envision contributing to DARIAH in this role. Please also add a short CV to this application (no more than four pages) and send it as an email to jrc@dariah.eu by June 26, 2026.
The decision process on this position is as follows: The Joint Research Committee reviews the applications within four weeks and may reach out to the corresponding National Coordinator. The recommendation of the JRC will be shared with the Board of Directors, which approve and appoint the new JRC member.
Please contact jrc@dariah.eu if you have further questions.
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