Call for Participation

 6th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2025)

July 6-11, 2025, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

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Dear all, See below a reminder of the Call for Participation for our 6th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2025): https://isp.cs.ru.nl <https://isp.cs.ru.nl/> Kind regards, Jo Pierson, PhD Full Professor of Responsible Digitalisation Hasselt University School of Social Sciences Professor Media & Communication Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel imec-SMIT - Studies on Media, Innovation & Technology =========================================================================== Call for Participation 6th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2025) July 6-11, 2025, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen (The Netherlands) Theme: "Digitalisation of the Public Sector: Risks, Rights, and Resistance." https://isp.cs.ru.nl <https://isp.cs.ru.nl/> ============================================================================ We invite doctoral researchers working on privacy, data protection, security, surveillance and ethics to participate in the sixth Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2025) to be held from September July 6-11, 2025 in Berg en Dal (The Netherlands), close to Radboud University (Nijmegen). Teachers We are extremely happy to offer the following team of teachers for this year's summerschool: Tamar Sharon (iHub / Radboud University) Seda Gürses (TU Delft) Sjoera Nas (Privacy Company) Seeta Peña Gangadharan (London School of Economics) Jennifer Cobbe (University of Cambridge) Velislava (Veli) Hillman (London School of Economics) Joris van Hoboken (University of Amsterdam) Cynthia Lime (TU Delft) Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Background of the summerschool The interdisciplinary summerschool on privacy (ISP) provides an intensive one week academic post-graduate programme teaching privacy from a technical, legal and social perspective. The goal of the summerschool is to provide students with a solid background in the theory of privacy construction, modelling and protection from these three different perspectives. It also aims to help them to establish a first international network with peers and senior academics across these disparate disciplines. Participants of the summerschool are awarded two ECTS (study credits) and receive a certificate of attendance issued by the Radboud University attesting this. For more information click here Theme: Digitalisation of the Public Sector: Risks, Rights, and Resistance States, and their institutions, are increasingly dependent on digital infrastructure and tools to deliver public services. The digitalisation of state functions is primarily motivated by the prospect of efficiency savings. However, the resulting dependence on private IT infrastructure has consequences for the preservation of public values and the protection of fundamental rights. What seems like a "technical project" shifts power dynamics within the public sector leading to risks of centralisation, corporate control, and new forms of citizen surveillance. In the absence of (technical) transparency about these public-private interactions, it is difficult to identify which entities become involved in state functions and who are the actors responsible for data protection. These profound implications for accountablility, fundamental rights and democratic control affect critical sectors such as education, healthcare, media, and public administration. This year's Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Privacy explores these challenges arising from the digitalisation of the public sector. In particular, it critically evaluates the various roles data protection and privacy play in these new constellations. For more information: https://isp.cs.ru.nl/2025/ Format The summer school is interdisciplinary, involving the following disciplines: computer science, law and social sciences / media and communication studies. The school lasts one week, with nine scheduled lectures (five morning lectures and four afternoon lectures) of two hours each. These nine lectures are equally distributed over the three disciplines, with top-notch lectures from each of the disciplines. The lectures will lay the grounds for an interdisciplinary conversation among students and lecturers coming from a variety of backgrounds. The remaining time is used for hands on working group sessions to study practical cases. The cases will be offered by businesses, governments, government related institutions (like DPAs) and civil society/NGOs. Groups of six students, ideally two from each discipline, are formed to tackle the cases and report back on their results in a plenary session. The school is held in a location that encourages dialogue and social interactions between both the staff and the students, both during lectures and in the evening. Staff (i.e. lecturers) are encouraged to stay at the summer school for the whole length of the school. The summer school is foremost aimed at PhD students from computer science, law and social sciences. We do accept registrations by master students, (senior) faculty, and even people from government or business on a case by case basis. Practical Information The summer school is held at Hotel Erica, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands. The hotel is well equipped and ideally situated in the woods close to Nijmegen, and easily reached by bus from Nijmegen train station. Nijmegen has direct train connections with Schiphol, the Dutch national airport. Registration Visit the following web page to register: https://isp.cs.ru.nl/2025/registration.php We offer the following options. Shared room: € 1065 (late: € 1265) Single room: € 1395 (late: € 1595) No room (lunch/diner/school only): € 767 (late: € 967) (for local people who do not need accommodation) Payment by credit card accepted. Early registration fees expire on May 1. Admission after May 1 subject to availability. Registration may close earlier if the maximum number of participants (36) is reached. Contact For further information please consult our website https://isp.cs.ru.nl <https://isp.cs.ru.nl/> or contact us by email at jhh@cs.ru.nl <mailto:jhh@cs.ru.nl> Organiser Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Radboud University / Karlstad University) Steering Committee Seda Gürses (TU Delft) Orla Lynskey (University College London) Jo Pierson (Hasselt University / VUB) Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Supported by iHub / Radboud University NWO AlgoSoc Karlsruhe Institute of Technology