{"id":88031,"date":"2018-01-16T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c5fc32a55baf534f1852367f0f6f66a7"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:00:13","slug":"news-story-commercial-ideas-in-cyber-security-apply-for-academic-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88031","title":{"rendered":"News story: Commercial ideas in cyber security: apply for academic funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK, in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-digital-culture-media-sport\">Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport<\/a>, has up to \u00a3500,000 for ideas in cyber security coming out of academic institutions.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"priorities-for-the-next-5-years\">Priorities for the next 5 years<\/h2>\n<p>The UK government set out its priorities for the next 5 years in the 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/national-cyber-security-strategy-2016-to-2021\">National Cyber Security Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has 3 aims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>develop our cyberspace<\/li>\n<li>deter adversaries<\/li>\n<li>develop capabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This funding is part of the cyber security academic startup programme. This aims to increase the amount of academic research being commercialised.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-emerging-and-enabling-technologies\">Find out more about how Innovate UK supports digital technologies.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"protecting-information-systems\">Protecting information systems<\/h2>\n<p>The competition is seeking ideas to protect information systems, data and services from unauthorised access or accidental harm.<\/p>\n<p>There must be a clear intention to commercialise the idea, and that must have the support of the relevant academic institution.<\/p>\n<p>Successful applicants will take part in a 6-week programme and be expected to attend 4 or 5 days of events during February and March. Industry experts will support the programme.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 22 January 2018, and the deadline is at midday on 31 January 2018<\/li>\n<li>it is open to anyone based in a UK academic institution<\/li>\n<li>we expect grants to be worth up to \u00a316,000<\/li>\n<li>applicants can apply for 100% of their eligible costs<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event will take place on 19 January 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/100\/overview\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academics can apply for a share of up to \u00a3500,000 in grants to support innovative ideas in cyber security that have potential for commercialisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}