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Date 11.01.2024
Category Call for proposal
2023 Call for Proposals: Building Resilience against Systemic Cyber Risk

The funder requires one application per institution, therefore an internal preselection for EPFL applications is implemented.

Pre-application timeline and process:
- Institutional pre-selection deadline: 11 January 2024, 5 pm
- Send 300 words abstract and CV to [email protected], with 'Swiss Re-Axa Cyber Risk application' as title.
- Abstract structure:
  • Overview of the objectives of the proposal, how they will be achieved, and their relevance to the Call.
  • Potential outputs and relevance for academia, society and private sectors.
  • Assets brought by academic institutions and associated partners.
Scope:  Applications should contribute to increasing our understanding of economic resilience against cyber catastrophes. Resilience being understood as being less vulnerable by design; reducing negative impact and recovering swiftly from cyber catastrophes. The results of the work need to improve our understanding of where our economy and businesses are most / least resilient against certain scenarios, how could we measure resilience (e.g. stress testing), where additional / different resilience levels may have the largest positive impact, and what means may be adequate to achieve such additional / different levels of resilience.  Applicants are free to choose research methods they deem fit to approach the selected aspects. Given the wide array of possible themes, a focus on selected scenarios, industries, regions, or technologies is appreciated.

Duration, amount, IP conditions:
  • 9-18 months
  • max funding per project 150’000 €.
  • AXA or Swiss Re will not claim any right to the ownership or use of the results.
Target : Academic institutions are the only eligible direct beneficiaries which may receive funding under this call.  Funding recipients need to be academic institutions which can either apply: 
  • as  Sole Applicant (one academic institution): The grant aims at supporting promising researchers or research groups. Project Proposals must always be led by ONE Principal Investigator who is nominated by the institution leading the application process. The Principal Investigator (PI), nominated by an institution, should be of the highest caliber and have demonstrated outstanding research achievements, as evidenced by the usual indicators for assessing academic excellence such as research outputs, research and research impact. The PI needs to be affiliated with an academic institution that has nominated him to be the Principal Investigator of the Project. It is required that the PI brings together a strong team demonstrating expertise and ability to complete the tasks of the proposed project with the best quality. Ideally, the team shall be composed of promising early career researchers, as well as would reflect the principle of diversity (gender and geography).
  • as a Consortium Applicant, (collaboration amongst two or more academic institutions): The requirement and recommended qualification of the Team Lead of the Project Coordinator (PC, the lead university) are identical to those of the Sole Applicant. In addition, the PC team needs to ensure that all partner  institutions are chosen based on the best possible match of required expertise, skills, availability, and cost-benefit analysis. The PC remains the main contact between the consortium and the contacts of the Partnership. The institution nominating the PC will represent the consortium as the signee of the contract and will receive the related funding.
Pre-selected EPFL applicants will be invited to submit a full application.
Full application timeline & Format:
  • Deadline: 15 February 2024, 12 pm, Paris time
  • Start of awarded project: September- November 2024
  • Full application as online ESF SC platform submission comprising:
- application form (see template here)
- short CV (2 pages) of the prospective PI (+ link to detailed CV)
- short CVs of potential project team members (2 paragraphs each)
- list of the top 5 publications
- list of the most recent 5 projects in the relevant field

More information on the call documents, here.






 

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