WG5: Education, Training, Awareness, Cyber Ranges

The working group focuses on the following issues:

• Education & skills: Skills verification, minimum curricula (universities), Youth4Cyber (education modules ages 6-26).
• Training / operational competences: EHR4CYBER (HR/jobs), cybersecurity training and exercise ecosystem leveraging upon cyber range environments, building up a European Cyber Range Community
• Awareness / cyber hygiene / gender inclusiveness: Women4Cyber Foundation: 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 Call to Action.
• Advocate skills verification through use case model approach (which skills 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.
• Develop minimum curricula for cybersecurity courses at university.
• Implement Youth4Cyber modules at national level with the support of members. International cooperation with ITU under discussion.
• Raise awareness on basic cyber hygiene, education & skills (through awareness calendar) and support EU and members’ awareness initiatives.