PETRAS National Centre of Excellence Event Support Grants (PESG)

Funding for PETRAS partners to host events such as organising and/or attending workshops, seminars, conferences, and lectures.

The PETRAS (privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security) National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity exists to ensure that technological advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) are developed and applied in consumer and business contexts, safely and securely. It achieves this by considering social and technical issues relating to the cybersecurity of IoT devices, systems and networks.

PETRAS runs Event Support Grants (PESG) to enable members of its academic community to organise a range of impact enhancing events and activities, preferably in collaboration with their User Partners, to promote Knowledge Exchange (KE), to evolve and inform current research direction, as well as strengthen their PETRAS-funded projects’ and the Centre’s dissemination, impact, and engagement activities.

Eligible applicants will receive funding to host specifically designed events within the scope of PETRAS’ research focus, and can include a range of activities such as organising and/or attending workshops, seminars, conferences, and lectures. Specifically, funding can cover:

• Workshops between PETRAS Lenses, projects and User Partners to share their findings, lessons learnt, and synthesise their outcomes.
• Workshops to share research outputs and seek User Partner and wider stakeholder feedback.
• Conference participation to present their PETRAS work and disseminate findings.
• Organising lectures, conferences (part of), workshops, symposia and seminars for academia, industry, government, or for the general public to promote KE, to evolve and inform current research direction, as well as strengthen the applicant’s PETRAS-funded projects’ and the Centre’s dissemination, impact, and engagement activities.