Prof. Ton de Kok has been appointed as director of CWI, by the board of CWI’s mother organization NWO-I, the institutes organization of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. On 1 October 2020, De Kok succeeds current director Prof. Jos Baeten, who has led the institute since 2011 and who will retire.

ERCIM is participating in the EU-funded Innovation Action “TRAPEZE” . The ambitious goal of the project is to drive a cultural shift in the protection of the European data economy by weaving trust into its very foundation and reconstructing the concepts of control, transparency, and compliance through technical and methodological, citizen-first, innovations.