Research in digital security, privacy, identity, and trust has tended to be dominated by engineering disciplines. SPRITE+ activities will also draw in researchers in humanities, behavioural and social sciences, and from other areas of ‘security science’. Our access fund and support for early career researchers fosters inclusive participation. We act as a ‘network of networks’, developing productive and mutually supportive relationships with cognate networks and organisations.

SPRITE+ creates opportunities for industry, university, government, law enforcement, and third sector partners to engage constructively with the broad research community. Our aim is to build a collaborative community of researchers and stakeholders, together tackling the most important and complex challenges to security, privacy, identity and trust in the future Digital Economy.

Working with academic and non-academic partners, we identify broad Challenge Themes (CTs) related to current and future problems. We will fund activities that explore and test new ideas related to the CTs, and that create new collaborations between academic disciplines, and between academic and non-academic partners. The outputs will be research roadmaps to address these CTs, articulating the current ‘state of the art’ and highlighting priority gaps in knowledge. SPRITE+ activities will thus shape the direction of research and investment within and beyond its funding.