First REWIRE project event on Cybersecurity Skills Gap & Cybersecurity Education
DATE & TIME: SEPTEMBER 19 I 16:00 – 17:30 CET
FORMAT: ONLINE (MICROSOFT TEAMS)
AGENDA
16.00 – 16.10: Introduction of REWIRE by Andrius Bambalas, Project Coordinator from Mykolas Romeris University (MRU)
16.10 – 16.30: Presentation of REWIRE Policy Fiche I and Recommendation I by Moderator (TBC)
16.30 – 17.15: Presentation of Prof. Nineta Polemi at the University of Piraeus-UNIPI & Co-Founder/CTO of trustilio and Ioannis Agrafiotis, Network Information Security Officer at the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) | Moderated discussion
17.15 – 17.30: Q&A session and event closure
BACKGROUND
An online roundtable aiming at stirring a discussion about two of the REWIRE project results (Policy Fiche I and Recommendation I), raising overall awareness of REWIRE project and, also, capturing feedback from policy stakeholders. The event will cast a light on the work done by European countries to address the cybersecurity skills gap and will briefly showcase any good practices in this area (REWIRE Fiche I). Moreover, the discussion will touch upon the importance of addressing cybersecurity education at a European, national, regional, and local level and it will focus on the policy implications from building a European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (REWIRE Policy Recommendation I).
ABOUT
The REWIRE – Cybersecurity Skills Alliance – A New Vision for Europe project develops a Blueprint for the Cybersecurity industry and a concrete European Cybersecurity Skills Strategy. It brings together 25 partners from academia and VET, cybersecurity industry, non-cyber industries, certification partners and umbrella organisations. Its work builds upon four pilot projects: CONCORDIA, SPARTA, ECHO, CyberSec4Europe implemented with the support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Registration is open at this link and is required for your participation. The finalised agenda and the link for the access to MS Teams will be circulated on a later stage before the event only to registrants.
