Innovation and Excellence in Cyber-security teaching in Higher Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovation and Excellence in Cyber-security teaching in Higher Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Information and information technology (IT) security has become interdependent, global and critical – it has become cyber-security. Cyberspace or the cyber domain refers to the ability to electronically store, process and most importantly transfer information. The medium allows for an almost instant information transfer over great distances, and across national and legislative borders. In this complex environment, legal consideration and economic incentives are as integral to ensuring the security of information systems as the technological realization.

The project has fulfilled four objectives: (1) Jointly develop Cyber-Security related teaching and training materials at Masters and PhD level; (2) Create within each partner institution, a centre for cyber-security teaching and awareness competences with curriculum encompassing area of expertise of each partner institution.; (3) Support decision makers in the area of higher education with a set of recommendation on how to improve the quality of teaching in cyber-security; (4) Adopt an online collaborative and interactive tool for delivering the courses to remote students. It has 7 partners, as shown in Section 2.1.

The project has planned 4 multiplier events and one training event, among which we have carried three multiplier events. However, in order to fulfil the project objectives, we have carried out additional activities as shown below. As a result, we have fulfilled all the objectives and successfully delivered all three outputs. In the long term, the project has laid a foundation for future collaborations to make a truly sustainable EU-wide cybersecurity curriculum for Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 175984 Eur

Project Coordinator

LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY & Country: LU

Project Partners

• KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
• UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
• UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG
• UNIVERSITAT WIEN
• OULUN YLIOPISTO
• NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU