Planning and scheduling are techniques to automate and/or optimize decision-making. There is a breadth of applications that can benefit from the application of this kind of technique including (but not limited to) robotics, flexible manufacturing, logistics and people management. The aim of this PhD scholarship is to investigate and reinforce the applicability of this kind of technique considering the whole spectrum of domains that recently emerged from the AIPlan4EU (aiplan4eu-project.eu) project. The candidate will research innovative approaches and algorithms to improve the performance, usability and/or relevance of planning and scheduling techniques deployed in diverse scenarios, having the unique possibility to work and experiment with real-world scenarios of planning already deployed by the project.