Cyber Security Competence Development

The digital transformation imposes EU Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to enhance their role in preparing the new generation workforce and to upskill the existing one in meeting the challenging and ever-growing cybersecurity challenges.

15 HEIs and 13 companies from 16 countries are working on an agile, collaborative, and multi-modal training program that will complement, support and advance the existing academic programs by linking innovation, research, industry, academia, and SME support.

CyberSecPro aims to bridge the gap between degrees, working life, and marketable cybersecurity skill sets necessary in today’s digitalization efforts and provide examples of best practices for cybersecurity training programs.

CyberSecPro’s ambition is to enhance the role of the Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in offering hands-on and working-life skills for driving a trustworthy digital transformation in critical sectors of the economy. The enhanced HEIs will equip the workforce with the necessary capabilities to address the digital challenges and be capable to develop secure privacy aware innovative ICT and industrial products that serve people, businesses and working-life communities practicing their democratic values and rights. By establishing a unique Learning Factory, CyberSecPro will be an authentic environment to link innovation, research, industry, academia and SME support. The outcome of the CyberSecPro is to empower the NextGen Europe.