Second edition of the CNIL-EHESS Award

Applications for the CNIL-EHESS Award are open until March 22, 2026. Submissions must be made directly via the CNIL Privacy Research Day application form.

Eligible submissions?

The award aims to promote research in data protection and civil liberties, while raising awareness among both citizens and decision-makers on these issues.

Contributions must:

• Be written in French or English.
• Be in article format (published or unpublished) between 30,000 and 60,000 characters (including spaces).
• Provide original research results, a new typology, a comprehensive literature review, or highlight new methods and frameworks, particularly those fostering interdisciplinarity.

The EHESS and the CNIL suggest the following topics (including, but not limited to):

• Artificial Intelligence: perceptions, regulation, and personal data.
• The exercise of rights by users (deletion, access, portability, etc.).
• The trajectory of data breach victims.
• Public policies regarding privacy protection.
• Social sciences in the service of digital regulation.
• Compliance within and outside of Europe.
• Privacy and social inequalities.
• Privacy protection and interface design (UX/UI).
• Privacy, human rights, and democracy.
• Ethics of data collection.
• Privacy and trust in institutions.
• The psychology of privacy.
• The economics of privacy and data protection.
• Surveillance and power dynamics.
• History and evolution of privacy.
• Identity and intimacy in the digital age.

How to participate

Applications must be submitted by midnight on March 22, 2026, via the Privacy Research Day submission platform:

Submit an application

For more information regarding the award, please contact us at: privacyresearchday[at]cnil.fr.

The jury is composed of researchers in digital social sciences and is coordinated by representatives of both institutions: Mehdi Arfaoui (for CNIL) and Jérôme Malois (for EHESS).

Members of the jury are:

• Mehdi Arfaoui (CNIL/EHESS)
• Céline Borelle (EHESS/SENSE-Orange Labs)
• Yann Bruna (Université Paris-Nanterre)
• Antoine Courmont (Université Gustave Eiffel)
• Gaël Depoorter (Avignon Université)
• Camille Girard-Chanudet (EHESS/CNAM)
• Francesca Musiani (CIS/CNRS)
• Cécile Méadel (Panthéon-Assas Université)
• Kevin Mellet (Sciences Po)
• Aurélie Petit (INRS)
• Valérie Peugeot (Sciences Po)
• Julien Rossi (Université Paris 8)
• Camille Roth (EHESS/CNRS)
• Ido Sivan-Sevilla (University of Maryland)

Award presentation

The winning contribution will be rewarded and presented during Privacy Research Day on June 24 in Paris. It will also be published on the CNIL and the EHESS websites alongside the name(s) of the author(s).

The winner(s) will be invited to visit the CNIL. The organization will cover accommodation and travel expenses. To minimize the environmental impact, high-carbon travel should, whenever possible, be combined with other activities justifying the trip..