The European Joint Doctorate in "Data Engineering for Data Science" (DEDS) organizes the 1st DEDS SCHOOL «Ethical and Legal Aspects of Data», 4-8 April 2022, in Athens, Greece. DEDS is jointly organised by Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), Aalborg Universitet (Denmark), and the Athena Research and Innovation Centre (Greece).
The theme of the school touches upon aspects such as legal definitions of personal data, anonymous data, need-to-know, individuals' rights to their personal data (including EU's GDPR), and legal institutions of recourse.The school's seminars cover topics such as GDPR in the sciences, privacy and data protection, ethics in data science, open data science, fairness and explainability, along with enabling technologies such as security and privacy techniques, federated learning and blockchain technologies, and so on.