Students in privacy research
Horizon 2020 is backing a training scheme centred on finding solutions relating to protecting citizens’ privacy.
16 universities, companies and public authorities from six different countries in Europe will collaborate in the €3.5m ‘Privacy&Us’ project. The multidisciplinary training and research programme centres on educating 13 doctoral students in academia and industry, and aims to help develop a combination of research related and transferable competence skills that will enhance their future careers.
Simone Fischer-Hübner, the scientific co-ordinator of Privacy&Us and computer science professor at Sweden’s Karlstad University, said: “Privacy and usability on the internet constitute an urgent issue and there is a great need to address it. We will contribute with solutions and advance the state of the art.”
Students from across the world will have the opportunity to apply to the scheme, which see them reason, design and develop innovative solutions to questions related to the protection of citizens’ privacy, along with a focus on user friendly tools for privacy protection. The doctoral students will spend up to nine months visiting other project partners.
Two of the 13 doctoral students will be employed at Karlstad University. The total cost of the innovative training network, as part of Horizon 2020’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, is €3.5m.
