WG5: Education, Training, Awareness, Cyber Ranges

The working group focuses on the following issues:

• Education & skills: Skills verification, minimum curricula and industry cooperation (universities), Youth4Cyber (education modules ages 6-26), including the most appropriate tools and learning methods to develop applicable capability, such as cyber ranges.
• Training/operational competences: EHR4CYBER (HR/jobs), building up a cybersecurity training and exercise ecosystem, as well as a European Cyber Range Community.
• Awareness/cyber hygiene/gender inclusiveness: Women4Cyber Foundation's national chapters, role model campaigns, etc., collaboration on awareness campaigns with EU institutions/Agencies; etc.
• Human factors: Link with citizens and civil society on aspects related to ethics, privacy, awareness, fight against cyber-crime, and societal impact.
  

• Gather the cyber range community and showcase cyber ranges in Europe through a Call to Action and the organisation of workshops for different target groups.
• University/Higher Education level: Develop minimum curricula guidelines for cybersecurity courses for university, higher education and professional training providers.
• School level: Implement Youth4Cyber modules at national level with the support of Members. International cooperation with ITU is under discussion.
• Advocate skills verification through the "Top 10 abilities" initiative (which skills are needed for specific tasks or scenarios) and contribute to the development of a European cybersecurity skills framework (ENISA ad-hoc WG).
• Support HR/recruitment efforts in cybersecurity and work on implementing a job/competence platform.
• Transversal activity linked to wider marketing/communications effort: Raise awareness on basic cyber hygiene & cybersecurity solutions (through ECSO's Awareness Calendar) and support EU and Members’ awareness initiatives.