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EU-HYBNET 3rd Annual Workshop, #AW

On 20th of April 2023 in Bucharest, Romania, EU-HYBNET consortium hosted its third Annual Workshop, #AW, with the aim to present the results and findings of the EU-HYBNET project during the past year and to ensure vivid interaction with all hybrid threats stakeholders to assess the feasibility of the project findings and possible recommendations to innovations uptake and standardisation. Participants talked about cyber-attacks and their...

EU-HYBNET 3rd Future Trends Workshop, #FTW

On 19th of April 2023 EU-HYBNET Future Trends Workshop, #FTW2023, took place in Bucharest, Romania. The topic of this workshop’s was - “Hybrid Threats in the EU Neighbourhood – Implications for the future of EU security”. Recent events in the EU neighbourhood have brought into attention a complex dynamic of adversarial tools and strategies involving weaponization of information, technology, cyberspace, critical infrastructure, energy, in an...

EU-HYBNET held its 3rd Gaps and Needs Event, #GN2023

On the 28th of March 2023, the EU-HYBNET consortium held its 3rd Gaps and Needs event in Rome, Italy, and officially kicked-off its 3rd project cycle. Consortium and network members joined the discussion to define pan-European practitioners’ and other relevant actors’ (industry, academia, NGOs) gaps and needs to counter hybrid threats. The discussion revolved around three of the project’s four core themes: • Cyber and Future...

STARLIGHT General Assembly in San Sebastian, March 2023

L3CE, as a coordinator of STARLIGHT co-development cycle dedicated for detection of misinformation, together with Belgium Police, delivered a presentation in the General Assembly of STARLIGHT in San Sebastian (Spain), in the end of March 2023. It discussed the progress that has been made in the development of tools for law enforcement agencies (LEAs) for investigating misinformation crimes. The co-development cycle is deeply engaging collaborative...

Experts gather to assist in creating Cybersecurity and cybercrime prevention courses

The Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Focus Group meeting on April 17th, hosted as part of the EAGLE project, gathered experts to discuss the development of cybersecurity and cybercrime prevention courses for SMEs in Lithuania. The focus group addressed the key issues and challenges surrounding the development of effective courses. Read more here.

L3CE expert in ENISA Ad Hoc Working Group on European Cybersecurity Skills Framework

We are happy and proud to announce that in the end of March 2023 L3CE (Lithuanian Cybercrime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education) expert Edmundas Piesarskas has been appointed as member of ENISA Ad Hoc Working Group (AHWG) on European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF) for upcoming 2 years. The aim of the ENISA (European Agency for Cybersecurity) AHWG on ECSF was to develop...

Launch of EAGLE project

On the 2-3rd of February, 2023 a project EAGLE aimed at addressing the specific skills gaps faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in EU was launched. The project, called “CovEring the trAining Gap in digital skills for European SMEs manpower” (EAGLE), is designed to help SMEs adapt to the rapidly changing digital landscape and ensure they have the skilled workforce needed to compete...

SecurIT Open Call #2 Launch on 10 January 2023!

Apply until 14/03/2023, 17:00 CET Application guidelines and documents HERE Read more information HERE APPLY Registration links to Info Webinars, Matchmaking sessions and other useful information HERE

Invitation to Webinar: SecurIT 2nd Open Call Launch Event

Date, time: 9 January 2023 13:00 - 14:00 CET L3CE together with European security clusters SAFE, LSEC, SCS, SYSTEMATIC, CenSec and HSD implements SecurIT project aimed to boost innovations in Cybersecurity and strengthen the EU’s capacity to be better prepared and counter more efficiently cyber-threats and incidents. The project is financing 3.5 million EUR from the European Commission to innovative Cyber Security solutions created by SMEs,...

Child sexual abuse: new guidelines for first responders

The exponential growth in online child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSEM) is a significant challenge for European law enforcement agencies. For officers responding to potential victims of CSEM, this means they need to be equipped with the necessary skills and training to swiftly act in the best interests of the child. To assist these first responding officers, a new set of training guidelines have...