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SUMMARY:Sixth Call for Proposals  CYD Fellowships  A Talent Program for Cy
 ber-Defence Research
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CATEGORIES:Call for proposal
DESCRIPTION:Cyber-threats have been accelerating due to the exponential gr
 owth of network connectivity. These new capabilities provide myriad opport
 unities for security hackers to wreak significant damage for commercial\, 
 political\, or other gains.\nTo promote research and education in cyber-de
 fence\, EPFL\, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne\, and
  the Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus have jointly launched the “CYD Fellowshi
 ps – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research.”\nCYD Fellowships ar
 e designed to promote new solutions to major challenges in the fields of s
 ecurity and data science by bringing together basic and applied research. 
 They are open to researchers at master\, doctoral\, or postdoctoral level 
 who are willing to engage with innovative issues in cyber-defence\, with a
  particular emphasis on:\n\n	Protection of confidentiality\, integrity\, a
 nd availability of cyber and cyber-physical systems\n	Information sharing\
 , data fusion and crowdsourcing\n	Data science & AI methods for analysing 
 cyber- and technology-relevant data\n	Security\, privacy and digital trust
  technologies.\n\nBy encouraging the training of the next generation of le
 ading researchers in Switzerland\, the CYD Fellowships will accelerate the
  development of cyber security and privacy solutions\, improving defenders
 ’ capabilities vis-à-vis attackers. In fostering synergies between univ
 ersity-based researchers and cyber-defence stakeholders and promoting the 
 testing of new solutions\, they will increase the competitiveness of the S
 wiss cyber-defence community.\nFunding is available for six-month CYD Mast
 er Thesis Fellowships (living allowance and research funds)\; four-year (w
 ith a possible one-year extension) CYD Doctoral Fellowships (salary and re
 search and conference funds)\; and up to two-year CYD Distinguished Postdo
 ctoral Fellowships (salary and research and conference funds). CYD fellows
  are hosted by a higher education institution in Switzerland and conduct t
 heir research at the CYD Campus located on the premises of EPFL and ETHZ a
 nd in its office in Thun.\nThe CYD Campus is a cyber-competence center cre
 ated by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence\, Civil Protection and Spo
 rt. It acts as an anticipation platform for identifying and assessing tech
 nologies\, commercial and social cyber trends\, as well as the subsequent 
 usage scenarios. It is committed to innovative\, application-oriented rese
 arch and works to translate research findings into solutions alongside sta
 rt-ups and the established companies in the field of security.\nThe CYD Fe
 llowships are supported by armasuisse Science and Technology.\nThe sixth c
 all for proposals is now open with a rolling call for Master Thesis Fellow
 ship applications\, and with a deadline for Doctoral and Distinguished Pos
 tdoctoral Fellowship applications on 15 August 2022 (17:00 CEST).\nAn onli
 ne applicant workshop will be held on 29 June 2022 from 10:00 to 10:45 CES
 T. The event registration form can be accessed here.\n 
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