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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.