NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) indicates that there should be done crucial steps toward remedying the shortage of “people with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the tasks required for cybersecurity work.” Such a workforce will include “technical and nontechnical roles that are staffed with knowledgeable and experienced people.” Generally, it is difficult to produce a workforce with these interdisciplinary skills and to solve the problem of communication among educators, researchers, and people who use information technologies. Collaboration and communication between these groups are necessary. One problem is that companies, particularly SMEs with fewer resources need help to appreciate the competencies and skills gaps of their employees, methods to evaluate the existing situation as well as using training possibilities to reskill their employees.
The Interdisciplinary Cyber Training (InCyT) project would like to implement some solutions in this context. It has as a first objective the development of a framework, which provides a mechanism for VET and companies to describe the digital and other existing gaps in cyber security for professionals and non-professionals in order to avoid cyber-attacks and help them to improve their situation.
Taking into consideration the advantages of interdisciplinary training and mentoring programs particularly in the field of cyber security the project will develop, and test digital interdisciplinary training programs supported by e-mentoring for SMEs and adapt them for VET.
Project number: 2021-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000034737
Start Date: 01.11.2021
End Date: 31.10.2023
Project Coordinator: WESTFALISCHE HOCHSCHULE GELSENKIRCHEN, BOCHOLT, RECKLINGHAUSEN, GERMANY
The partners:
PAYDAŞ EĞİTİM KÜLTÜR VE SANAT DERNEĞİ, TURKEY
SC IPA SA, ROMANIA
EUROPEAN TRAINING CENTER COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
MAG S.R.L., ITALIA
POLITECHNIKA RZESZOWSKA IM IGNACEGO LUKASIEWICZA PRZ, POLAND
FACHHOCHSCHULE ST POELTEN GMBH, AUSTRIA
The Polish members of the project team will be: PhD DSc Dominik Strzałka, PhD Mirosław Mazurek, PhD Paweł Dymora, MSc Bartosz Kowal, employees of Department of Complex Systems.
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