Call for participation: Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Privacy (ISP 2025)

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman]

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Call for Participation

6th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2025)

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

Theme: "Digitalization of the Public Sector: Risks, Rights, and
Resistance."

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)

More names to be added soon!

# 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](https://isp.cs.ru.nl)

# Theme: Digitalization 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 digitisation 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
centralization, 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 digitalization 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

# 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](http://www.hotelerica.nl),
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.

- Single room: € 1395 (late: € 1595)
- Shared room: € 1065 (late: € 1265)
- 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

or contact us by email at j...@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)
- Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

## Supported by

- iHub / Radboud University
- NWO AlgoSoc
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology




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