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						<p> DTL is a collaborative effort between universities, businesses and institutions to support research in tools, data, and methodologies for shedding light on the use of personal data by online services, and to empower users to be in control of their personal data online. In order to support research in these areas, DTL will award research grants to academic institutions worldwide.
						 


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			<h3 style="color:black">Call for Proposals 2017</h3>
				<p class="left-aligned">The Data Transparency Lab is a collaborative effort between universities, businesses and institutions to support research in tools, data, and methodologies for shedding light on the use of personal data by online services, and to empower users to be in control of their personal data online. DTL will award in 2017 up to 6 research grants as well as up to 3 postdoc positions to support the work of applicants from academic institutions worldwide.			
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		<h4>Grant Awards</h4>
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		<p class="left-aligned">The grants come in the form of a lump sum of up to 50K Euro that will be awarded to successful applicants for pursuing research that will lead to the development of transparency software tools for end users, interest groups, regulation authorities, and governments. The following list of topics provides several examples of tools that we are looking to support. In this third year of the program we are particularly interested in tools for detecting algorithmic bias and discrimination as well as in tools for exposing location and other IoT related privacy threats. </p>

		<p class="left-aligned">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</p>

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		         <p class="left-aligned">Successful applicants are expected to present their results in the annual DTL Conference, make their software available online (the latest 12 months after receiving the grant), and acknowledge the funding source. Reporting obligations will be minimal and successful applicants will be eligible to apply for additional follow up funding to further curate their tool. Proposals will be selected based on their novelty and their commitment to develop and deploy tools. Proposals that propose a research project without implementation of a prototype/tool won’t be considered (the postdoc program -see below- should then be considered). Proposals already funded by other sources won’t be considered.</p>
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					        <td>Hamed Haddadi</td>
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					        <td>Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)</td>
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					         <td>Nick Nikiforakis</td>
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					         <td>Nuria Oliver</td>
					        <td>Vodafone (Spain)</td>
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					         <td>Javier Parra Arnau</td>
					        <td>Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)</td>
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					         <td>Josep Maria Pujol</td>
					        <td>Cliqz (Germany)</td>
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					         <td>Salvatore Ruggieri</td>
					        <td>Università di Pisa (Italy)</td>
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					         <td>Vincent Toubiana</td>
					        <td>Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)</td>
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									<li>Submission deadline: May 10th</li>

									<li>Notification of acceptance: June 15th </li>

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		    		<h4>Postdoc Positions (NEW!)</h4>
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								<p>In addition to the standard DTL Call for Projects, INRIA, Queen Mary University of London, and other academic affiliates of DTL will fund up to 3 grants to work on one of the DTL topics (see above for non-exhaustive list).	</p>
								<p>The nature of the expected work is to contribute to the research of data and/or algorithmic transparency. Although the development of an experimental prototype would be appreciated, it is not a requirement for this position.</p>	
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									Candidates must have defended their Phd thesis in Computer Science (or related topics) at the beginning of the contract of employment. The application must include:
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								 <p>Documents should be submitted as a single PDF file along with the information of the applicants at the submission site of DTL at: <a href="https://dtlresearch.tid.es/dtl2017/" target="_blank">https://dtlresearch.tid.es/dtl2017/</a></p>									 
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