[Commlist] ISP - Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy 2025 Call for participation

See below a *reminder* of the Call for Participation for our *6th 
Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2025)*:

 https://isp.cs.ru.nl


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*     6th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2025)*
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*    July 6-11, 2025, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen (The Netherlands)*
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*Theme: "Digitalisation of the Public Sector: Risks, Rights, and 
Resistance."*

https://isp.cs.ru.nl <https://isp.cs.ru.nl/>

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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/ 
<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 
<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 /at/ cs.ru.nl) <mailto:(jhh /at/ 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

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