SMEs Cyber Security Change Agents

ongoing

CyberAgent aims to create a platform for the target group to acquire sustainable cybersecurity and entrepreneurial knowledge and competences to inspire, empower, up-skill, re-skill and engage SME employees taking the role as Cyber Security Change Agents and involve more women in the IT sector. It will facilitate the development of collaborations between HEIs, VETs, and SMEs and operate as a platform for the sharing of best practices between players involved in cybersecurity and the labor market. Additionally, it intends to improve the employability of the target groups, support SMEs in building their cyber resilience, preserve their reputation and competitiveness, and raise organizational cybersecurity maturity and culture. The main beneficiaries affected by the project are SME employees, in particular women, who need to be upskilled in order to play the role of a change agent in SME cybersecurity. Secondary target groups are HEIs, VETs, who will be able to implement the training content in their institutions, while HEIs students and VETs trainees will be able to use the developed content. The up-to-date curricula and content of 8 training modules (including technical, analytical, risk management and organisational skills) for HEIs and VETs, which will be available on an online platform and may be utilized for blended learning, is part of 6 WPs that are planned. Project results will be piloted with at least 80 participants, including at least 30 women, from 8 countries, and will be attended by 24 VET trainers and 10 HEI teachers. Project results will be freely available to all during and after the project end. Within 3 years after the project's end, training course will be offered to at least 800 more SME workers working in 100 SMEs in the partner countries. The EN versions will be used for dissemination in other European countries to expand further the localisation base.