Launch of 10th edition of CNIL-Inria Privacy Award

Within the framework of the partnership agreement signed in 2025 between Inria and the CNIL, the prize is intended to promote research in Computer Science and Privacy and to raise awareness among citizens and decision-makers on privacy and data protection issues.

Submitted papers must present work, at least partly, conducted in a research center based in one of the 27 countries of the European Union (thus excluding the UK and Switzerland), and must necessarily address the improvement of the protection of personal data, AI transparency, or privacy.

Examples of possible topics include (without limitation): 

• Artificial intelligence and algorithm transparency,
• Privacy tools usability,
• New types of tracking and protections,
• User perspective on privacy,
• Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs),
• Anonymization and reidentification,
• Applied cryptography,
• New opportunities and risks of GenAI (e.g. deepfakes),
• Challenges and solutions to implement the GDPR.

Applications files should be submitted before February 20th, 2026 midnight.  

The jury is made up of several experts in privacy and data protection and, co-organised by two co-presidents, Nataliia Bielova (Inria) and Vincent Toubiana (CNIL) with two vice-presidents of the jury,  Benjamin Nguyen (Inria/INSA Centre Val de Loire)  and Claude Casteluccia (CNIL-Inria). The winner will be awarded during the conference Privacy Research Day 2026 and will be invited to present his or her paper during the conference which will take place in June 2026 in Paris.