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Conferences, Summer schools, and Grants

This page lists many potential opportunities for Ph.D. students from SCS.

If ever you receive communications regarding opportunities that are not listed yet on this page, do not hesitate to update it!

Conferences

To discover the top security conferences, we recommend looking at the following website: http://jianying.space/conference-ranking.html . This website ranks the most renowned security venues. However, there exist many other publication opportunities such as specialized conferences, workshops, and journals.

To know the upcoming submission deadlines for most security conferences, refer to this website: https://sec-deadlines.github.io/

Summer schools

Summer schools are a great opportunity for Ph.D. students to discover new topics, do some networking, and travel. Careful! You usually have only a few weeks to register to a summer school, so be reactive!

Find below a list of interesting summer schools:

Location Date Registration deadline URL
“Real-world crypto and Privacy” summer school Dubrovnik, Croatia 30 June - 4 July https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2025/index.html
“Human Factors in Cybersecurity and Privacy” summer school Zurich, Switzerland 7 - 11 July 2025 April 30 https://cyrenzh.ch/summer-school-2025/
ACM summer school on Cybersecurity and privacy Stockholm, Sweden 9 - 13 June 2025 May 2 https://cysep.conf.kth.se/program.html
CISPA-Ellis Summer School on Trustworthy AI Saarbruecken, Germany 4 - 8 August 2025 https://cispa.de/summer-school-2025
EDBT Summer School on AI & Data Management Nicosia, Cyprus 7 - 11 July 2025 April 7 https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/
Summer School on Security and Privacy in the Age of AI Leuven, Belgium 9 - 12 September 2025 https://cybersecurity-research.be/summer-school-on-security-privacy-in-the-age-of-ai-2025
Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Vienna, Austria 22 - 26 September July 10 https://aisec-summerschool.cysec.wien/

Many summer schools are reorganized every year, so feel free to update links to the most recent edition of the summer school.

Grants