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The Privacy&Us Innovative Training Network

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.

The Thirteen Privacy&Us ESRs at the 4th Training Event in London

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675730, within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) framework. Total Funding: EUR 3,376,517.

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Meet the Early Stage Researchers

Meet the Early Stage Researchers

If you would like to know more about the researchers, visit the Early Stage Researchers’ page where you can watch their video introductions.


The Consortium


The Partners

  • Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB, Austria)
  • Preslmayr Rechtsanwälte OG (PRE, Austria)
  • Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen (FAU, Germany)
  • University of Göttingen (UGOE, Germany)
  • Bavarian Data Protection Authority (LDA, Germany)
  • EveryWare Technology (EWT, Italy)
  • ATEA Sverige AB (ATE, Sweden)

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