Within CONCORDIA project, we aim to work out and suggest high-school teachers teaching methodologies and associated materials to utilize when discussing cyber-security and cyber-safety with their pupils. In view of understanding the real needs in terms of topics and type of materials we have developed a survey and launched the English version in December 2020. (link: https://www.concordia-h2020.eu/news/cybersecurity-in-high-school-a-survey/).

Via this survey we plan to collect input from the following audience:

• European high-school Teachers,
• European high school Students
• European Parents of high school students
• European European school Management

The Survey in your language!

In order to make our survey more accessible, we translated it into six languages. It is now available also in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek and Dutch.

If you would like to see the survey translated in another EU language please drop us an email at contact@concordia-h2020.eu and we will try to accommodate your request.

Get involved

Help us suggest teachers teaching methodologies and materials to address cybersecurity in high-school by filling in the Survey (link: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/6e30ed0b-3888-eff4-e85f-0d7c92f178db).

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Cybersecurity is a major concern for our societies at large. Children start using internet at early ages and more than 90% of young Europeans are online. Using internet brings a lot of benefits linked to information and communication but it comes with certain risks: privacy violation, identity theft, ransomware, fraudulent usage of debit card, etc. It is therefore of paramount importance that new generations are made aware and kept updated about the major threats, new technologies as well as appropriate individual and collective behaviors in order to reduce risks.

Teachers can play a major role in raising the awareness among their pupils about Cybersecurity and in spreading and disseminating a risk-prevention culture. While they are more and more sensitive to Cybersecurity issues and started acquiring fundamental notions in this area, there is a need for a structured approach to teach cybersecurity related topics to young Europeans.

The Survey

Within CONCORDIA project, we aim to work out and suggest high-school teachers teaching methodologies and associated materials to utilize when discussing cybersecurity with their pupils. In view of understanding the real needs we have developed a survey via which we plan to collect input from the following audience:

• European high-school Teachers,
• European high school Students
• European Parents of high school students European
• European school Management

The objective of this Survey is three-fold:

• RELEVANCE: To select the most needed topics to be covered in the materials.
• EFFECTIVENESS: To define the most appropriate format for the materials to be developed.
• NOVELTY: To identify areas not (enough) covered by existing programs.

Get involved

Help us suggest teachers teaching methodologies and materials to address cybersecurity in high-school by filling in the Survey [LINK]

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All industries have seen examples of Cyber incidents and Cybersecurity related risks have already gained their place in the relevant Risk Assessment files. In this context the role of the Cybersecurity Consultant is becoming more and more important for all types of organizations (large or small, private, public or other).

A professional profile contains the knowledge and skills that a person should have in order to perform the role effectively. At this time, no specific Professional Profile has been defined for the Cybersecurity Consultant.
The CONCORDIA team, through a series of procedures, has selected 90 Skills and 200 Knowledge items from the NIST Cybersecurity Workforce Framework as relevant for the European market and has implemented them in an innovative CONCORDIA application (https://concordia.monitorboard.nl).

We request your valuable input to rank this compilation of skills and knowledge,. The process is pretty straight forward:

1. Access the application through https://concordia.monitorboard.nl
2. Login by filling in your industry, Company name and role within your organization. (This step will need to be performed only when you first access the CONCORDIA application. We implemented a cookie to help you retrieve your selections should you decide to come back later. No personal information is retained.)
3. Rank the skills and knowledge by navigating in the relevant tabs and draging the individual items from their original position to the appropriate (based on your opinion) importance column (Very Important / Important / Not Important). In case you believe that a specific Skill or Knowledge is missing , feel free to propose it by using the “+” button.

No need to save your selections. The system incorporates your changes in real time and you can come back at any time during the period of validity of this survey.

Your selection based on the importance is presented in a network-view on the top of the screen. The aggregated results of all participants to this exercise will be presented in the CONCORDIA Education workshop to be scheduled for end of May. The agenda and the registration link will be published soon on the CONCORDIA website and announced on the project social media accounts. Follow us on Twitter and on LinkedIn for updates.

For more details on CONCORDIA work on Education for cybersecurity professionals please check HERE

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