Privacy and Usability

Project Details

Financing body

EU Horizon 2020

Description

With the rapid accumulation and processing of personal data by numerous organizations, it is of paramount importance to protect people from adverse uses of their data, while allowing them to enjoy the benefits the use of these data can possibly provide. This is the question of protecting citizens’ privacy, while enabling them to make informed decisions regarding their actions with privacy implications.



The Privacy & Us Innovative Training Network (ITN) will train thirteen creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early stage researchers (ESRs) to be able to reason, design and develop novel solutions to questions related to the protection of citizens’ privacy, considering the multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral aspects of the issue. ESRs will be trained to face both current and future challenges in the area of privacy and usability. Privacy & Us offers a combination of research-related and transferable competence skills that will enhance the career perspectives of the ESRs in both the academic and non-academic sectors.



The ESRs will receive comprehensive training and engage in inter-sectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration. Through this collaborative effort, the project will make a significant contribution and impact to the ESRs future careers. It will also contribute to shaping future privacy policies and practices in Europe and will significantly advance the state of the art in privacy and usability research
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/12/1531/08/20

Collaborative partners

  • Vienna University of Economics and Business (lead)
  • Karlstad University (Project partner)
  • European Commission (Project partner)
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Project partner)
  • Tel Aviv University (Project partner)
  • University College London (Project partner)

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (OEFOS)

  • 202022 Information technology
  • 102013 Human-computer interaction
  • 102