Gravitation grant for challenges in Cyber Security
21.5 million for ‘Challenges in Cyber Security’
26 March 2024
Along side a gravity grant of 23.23 million for research into a 'brain atlas' for psychiatric symptoms, under UvA's penmanship, UvA scientists participate in two other consortia that have received a Gravity Grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. These are research projects 'Challenges in Cyber Security' and the use of AI to design therapies for blindness.
Challenges in Cyber Security
Cyber security is often portrayed as an educational problem or a resource problem, shifting blame on users, system administrators, or the budget holders limiting the system administrators’ abilities. However, there are many hard problems that remain unsolved and that require a coordinated scientific investigation. The “Challenges in Cyber Security” project brings together top researchers from the hard sciences areas of cyber security to tackle these hard open problems. It is led by Eindhoven University of Technology and has been rewarded 21.5 million for a 10-year program. UvA-scientists Christian Schaffner of the (TCS) group, Zoltan Mann, Francesco Regezzoni, Kostas Papagiannopoulos and Karst Koymans of the Complex Cyber Infrastructure (CCI) group from the Informatics Institute are also involved in the project.
I’m really excited to get started with this big cybersecurity project. Together with the other consortium partners from TU/e, VU, RU and CWI, we are taking a systematic approach to make sure our cyber systems are secure.
Schaffner: ‘I’m really excited to get started with this big cybersecurity project. Together with the other consortium partners from TU/e, VU, RU and CWI, we are taking a systematic approach to make sure our cyber systems are secure. For example, we address long-term security by looking ahead to the time when quantum computers could break the encryption that keeps our online data safe right now. Even though that might be years away, bad actors could collect encrypted information today and crack it open later when they have the right tools. So we’re getting ahead of the game to protect our data for the future.’
Find more info on the project on the website of TU/e
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About the Gravitation programme
The Gravitation programme is financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). The Dutch Research Council (NWO) selects the research groups on behalf of the OCW. The funding allows researchers to conduct 10 years of high-level university research and to collaborate on an interdisciplinary basis. One of the pillars of the programme is cooperation across disciplines and universities. The scientists jointly set up excellent scientific research programmes.
In total the seven consortia will receive Gravitation grants amounting to more than 160 million euros.