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Call for Expression of Interest in PhD positions as part of the
Cybercampus Sweden Graduate School for Cybersecurity (Second round)

Cybercampus Sweden is establishing the first National Swedish Graduate School for Cybersecurity. The plan is to create further positions for this Graduate School with at least 60% co-funding of the salary costs plus funding of travel and mobility grants for each PhD position by Cybercampus. Only organisations that are or plan to become premium partners of Cybercampus and have not been granted a co-funded PhD position in the Cybercampus Graduate School yet in the first round, can apply in this second round.

The PhD students should be employed at a Cybercampus premium partner and should be jointly supervised by at least two different Cybercampus partners (one of them can be the Cybercampus partner that employs the PhD student). The co-supervisors should preferably contribute with complementing cybersecurity domain expertise and/or different disciplinary competences.


Further details about the setup and rules for the Cybercampus Sweden Graduate School are described in the Cybercampus Graduate School strategy , and funding rules below. The research topic areas for the first round of PhD projects should contribute to at least one of the ten themes listed in the Cybercampus Research Strategy .

If your organisation is interested to participate in the Cybercampus Sweden Graduate School and to host a co-funded PhD student, please express your interest and intend by submitting the following documents by sending an email to research@cybercampus.se and simone.fischer-huebner@kau.se.

  1. A 2-3 pages PhD research proposal that contributes to one of the research themes, outlining:

    • research objective / questions,

    • research methodology,

    • expected contributions for at least one of the research themes,

    • concrete outcome(s) that can lead to directly implementable results in Sweden,

    • expected practical impact for enhancing cybersecurity in Sweden, and

    • potential users (industry, public sector, civil and military defense) of the solutions in Sweden,

    • the hosting and the (co-)supervising Cybercampus partners and their complementing expertise) 

  2. Short CVs (2 pages each) for all named (co)-supervisors, including information about the number of PhD students that they have supervised in the past and are supervising now.
     

  3. A statement expressing the intent of your organisation of co-funding up to 40% for a PhD position plus supervision costs, which could be an in-kind part of the Cybercampus partnership fee.
     

  4. A suggestion of how the partner organisation can contribute to the curriculum of the graduate school with activities, courses or lectures for the graduate school (which can also be in-kind co-funding as a part of the Cybercampus partnership fee).
     

  5. A (draft) plan for the planned Secondments (research visits) the PhD student at Cybercampus, at the co-supervising organisations or at other Cybercampus partners.
     

Draft time schedule 

  • Submission deadline for expression of interests: 15th November 2025 

  • Start of the Graduate School: End of 2025/beginning of 2026

Funding Rules

Cybercampus Sweden co-funds:

  • 60% of (PhD student salary costs + OH), i.e. approximately 2.3 MSEK (for 4 years full-time PhD studies)- the exact amount depends on the PhD student’s salary and the OH rate of the organisation. This funding could also bespread over than 4 years of PhD studies (e.g. if the PhD student conducts also 20% teaching duties and is therefore enrolled for 5 years)
     

  • Travel costs/ publication costs (100.000 SEK) & mobility grants (for secondments) (up to 300.000 SEK).

Note: The mobility grant is co-funded by Cybercampus, but it is only paid for double-housing if the PhD student is going on secondments to partner organisations / Cybercampus. This extra co- funding from Cybercampus should hopefully motivate PhD students to frequently visit/ or to spend a longer time at partner organisations and at Cybercampus.

Cybercampus Sweden partners co-fund/contribute:

  • Remaining 40% of salary costs (around 1,5 MSEK for the research part – dependent on salary costs and OH)
     

  • PhD supervision costs (at least 8-10% of the time of the supervisors)
     

  • Teaching by supervisors / senior researchers for the Graduate School
     

Note: This co-funding can be mostly counted as in-kind for the premium Cybercampus partnership fee. An exception is salary costs for the up to 20% teaching/administrative duties conducted by the PhD student, unless these are teaching/administrative duties conducted for Cybercampus (and not only for the respective University). However, if the PhD students conduct teaching or administrative tasks for Cybercampus beyond their research work, it could be requested that this working time could also be paid by Cybercampus (as also mentioned in the Cybercampus PhD Graduate school plan and strategy).