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SUMMARY:Seventh 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.\n\nTo promote research and education in cyber-
 defence\, EPFL\, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne\, a
 nd the Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus have jointly launched the “CYD Fellows
 hips – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research.” There are two cal
 ls per year and the seventh call is now open.\nCYD Fellowships are designe
 d to promote new solutions to major challenges in the fields of security a
 nd data science by bringing together basic and applied research. They are 
 open to researchers at master\, doctoral\, or postdoctoral level who are w
 illing to engage with innovative issues in cyber-defence\, with a particul
 ar emphasis on:\n\n	Protection of confidentiality\, integrity\, and availa
 bility of cyber and cyber-physical systems\n	Information sharing\, data fu
 sion and crowdsourcing\n	Data science & AI methods for analysing cyber- an
 d technology-relevant data\n	Security\, privacy and digital trust technolo
 gies.\n\nBy encouraging the training of the next generation of leading res
 earchers in Switzerland\, the CYD Fellowships will accelerate the developm
 ent of cyber security and privacy solutions\, improving defenders’ capab
 ilities vis-à-vis attackers. In fostering synergies between university-ba
 sed researchers and cyber-defence stakeholders and promoting the testing o
 f new solutions\, they will increase the competitiveness of the Swiss cybe
 r-defence community.\n\nFunding is available for six-month CYD Master Thes
 is Fellowships (living allowance and research funds)\; four-year (with a p
 ossible one-year extension) CYD Doctoral Fellowships (salary and research 
 and conference funds)\; and up to two-year CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral 
 Fellowships (salary and research and conference funds). CYD fellows are ho
 sted by a higher education institution in Switzerland and conduct their re
 search at the CYD Campus located on the premises of EPFL and ETHZ and in i
 ts office in Thun.\n\nThe CYD Campus is a cyber-competence center created 
 by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence\, Civil Protection and Sport. I
 t acts as an anticipation platform for identifying and assessing technolog
 ies\, commercial and social cyber trends\, as well as the subsequent usage
  scenarios. It is committed to innovative\, application-oriented research 
 and works to translate research findings into solutions alongside start-up
 s and the established companies in the field of security.\n\nThe CYD Fello
 wships are supported by armasuisse Science and Technology.\n\nThe seventh 
 call for proposals is now open with a rolling call for Master Thesis Fello
 wship applications\, and with a deadline for Doctoral and Distinguished Po
 stdoctoral Fellowship applications on 15 February 2023 (17:00 CEST).\n\nAn
  online applicant workshop will be held on 25 January 2023 from 10:00 to 1
 0:45 CEST. The event registration form can be accessed here.\n 
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