DARIAH Digital Arts and Humanities Training and Summer School Small Grants 2026 awards five winning proposals

Five winning events are awarded funding from the DARIAH Digital Arts and Humanities Training and Summer School Small Grants 2026 Call.

This call, which was launched in March 2026, invited 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.

Winning proposals

The five winning proposals of the 2026 call are:

• From stone to screen: Digital Tools for Epigraphy
  When: Monday, 30 November to Wednesday, 2 December, 2026
  Location: Ghent University and KU Leuven in Belgium
  This training event, aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers, will cover topics such as text encoding, epigraphic datasets and databases, AI tools, Linked Open Data for epigraphy, and planning the digital component of a digital epigraphy project.
  More details can be found here.

• Summer School: Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions 2026
  When: Monday, September 21 to Friday, September 25, 2026
  Where: Department of Digital Humanities (University of Graz)
  In this summer school, participants will use the Python library BERTopic to explore various steps of topic modeling. The aim is to give non-experts a high-level practical overview of how to use the BERTopic library and the essential theory behind its modules.
  More details can be found here.

• From Digitised Pages to Reusable Texts: A Wikisource and Transkribus Training School for Digital Humanities
  When: Monday, September 21 to Wednesday, September 23, 2026
  Where: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
  The programme responds to a growing need for practical and sustainable ways of working with historical texts and dictionaries. It presents Wikisource not only as a transcription free and open-access platform, but also as a useful environment for research, teaching, and public engagement.
  More details can be found here.

• Creative AI for Multimodal Humanities Data: Dataset Curation, Interaction, and Documentation
  When: Tuesday, September 15 to Friday, September 18, 2026
  Where: Iceland University of the Arts
  This is a four-day intensive training programme for early-career researchers across the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage sectors. The programme provides hands-on training in how AI systems can be used to work with multimodal and non-textual materials, including sound, performance, and time-based media.

• BAL-ADRIA Summer School in Digital Humanities 2026
  When: Monday, June 15 to Friday, June 19, 2026
  Where: University of Zadar
  The programme of this summer school is taught by an international team of researchers and practitioners of digital humanities and social sciences and is delivered in a form of lectures, seminars and practical workshops.
  More details can be found here.