AXA Research Fund - Call for Research Proposals Systemic Cyber Risk

Research

Funding organisation:

AXA SA (Research Fund)

What?

Swiss Re and AXA, two prominent re/insurance companies with a strong connection to science, have launched a collaboration to help build resilience to systemic risks. The Risk Resilience Partnership will be led by their scientific initiatives: the Swiss Re Institute and the AXA Research Fund.

The Joint Risk Resilience Partnership is endowed with 1M€ over a period of 3 years and will hold annual calls for proposals.

The first call on Systemic Cyber Risk seeks to improve the understanding of economic resilience to cyber catastrophes, in a world that is increasingly relying on digital technologies. 
The results of the work should contribute to industries' and societies' understanding of economic and business resilience against certain cyber risk scenarios by providing inputs on how to assess resilience and suggest the best ways to improve it.

The Risk Resilience Partnership aims to support top-tier research on systemic risks. Research project proposals should demonstrate their scientific originality and innovative nature and have the potential to contribute to a step change in the proposal's specified areas.

The proposals are expected to:

• Be of outstanding  scientific quality,

• Create results applicable for risk identification and risk assessment by corporates, and

• Inform governments and/or private sector on how to build resilience against systemic risks across the specific proposal's themes.

Proposals with a duration of 9 – 18 months are considered eligible for this call.
Budget: 150,000€ / Project. A maximum of three projects will be chosen.

Who?

Applications are accepted from academic institutions across the globe. Academic institutions are the only eligible direct beneficiaries which may receive funding through this Partnership. Private companies, NGOs, governmental bodies, foundations, independent research centers, cultural institutions (such as museums), and hospitals are not eligible as direct beneficiaries. However, due to the applied nature of the funding, it is possible for academic institutions to collaborate and partner with other organizations from public and private sectors.

Applicant requirements:
As Sole Applicant: The Principal Investigator (PI), nominated by an institution, should be of the highest caliber and have demonstrated outstanding research achievements, as evidenced by the usual indicators for assessing academic excellence such as research outputs, research activities and research impact. The PI needs to be affiliated with an academic institution that has nominated him to be the Principal Investigator of the Project.

As Consortium Applicant: The requirement and recommended qualification of the Team Lead of the Project Coordinator (PC, the lead university) are identical to those of the Sole Applicant. In addition, the PC team needs to ensure that all partner academic institutions are chosen based on the best possible match of required expertise, skills, availability, and cost-benefit analysis.
   

Application?

Deadline submission: February 15th, 2024 12 PM Paris/Zurich time 

You can find the instructions for submission here.

The results will be announced by email to the candidates Mid April 2024.
  

Regulations?

You can find more information in the guidelines.
  

More information?

More information is available on the website of the AXA Research Fund.

Please contact research@uhasselt.be if you want to apply.
  

Deadline

15.02.2024

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail sarah.szyr@uhasselt.be

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