Cybersecurity for the Future (CYB-FUT)
Project annotation
Preamble
The project proposal responds
to today’s serious threats, especially the risks associated with electronic
attacks, which a significant part of the society is still unable to recognize
and adequately prevent.
As part of the project, we
therefore intend to raise the awareness of target groups about electronic
attacks and the basic methods of defence against them in various ways.
In the countries of the
consortium (as well as in the rest of Europe) the real needs that the project
responds to are defined by the current security challenges and by the
corresponding national priorities. (For example, within the Czech Republic it
reacts to the updating of the framework educational programs of the Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sports for secondary vocational schools in the field of
cybersecurity and its inclusion in teaching.)
Target groups
The project is focused on three
target groups:
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• students of
technically oriented vocational schools,
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• teachers of
technically oriented vocational schools,
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• students of
universities.
Results
As part of the project, two
groups of key results will be developed: educational materials and a
cybersecurity portal. The results will be freely accessible, even after the
project is completed.
Educational materials
There will be developed a set
of 10 practically oriented online laboratory tasks dealing with the topic of
cybersecurity. Individual tasks will be accompanied by a description of the
relevant issues. Laboratory tasks will be prepared in a virtual environment
with the aim of demonstrating a security problem and possible ways of solving
it. Thematically, the tasks will be focused primarily on ordinary users of the
cyberspace.
In addition to the laboratory
tasks, modern theoretical materials explaining the given problems in more
detail will be developed at the same time. The materials will be available in
English and in all the languages of the project consortium countries. They will
include texts, images, videos, tests and interactive elements.
These materials will be
available through the learning portal TechPedia,
which has been operated by the project coordinator for a long time and is
already well-known in the community of technical vocational schools.
We assume that practical
laboratory tasks and teaching materials will be a suitable supplement for
teaching cybersecurity in schools with an emphasis on the illustrative nature
of the interpretation, introducing the given issues in a real environment.
Cybersecurity
portal
We will develop and launch a
new portal that will include, among other information, categorized links to
learning objects for the field of cybersecurity. This portal will appropriately
expand the capabilities of the TechPedia portal as
well as the usability of a set of new online lab tasks.
Training activities and events
An important part of the
project is the verification of the developed tools and their use in practice.
Therefore, we will prepare and implement four activities that will be available
in all countries of the project consortium:
1)
We will organize a series of three information workshops for the target group,
in which we will draw attention to emerging project outputs and the
possibilities of their use.
2)
We will organize basic training in cybersecurity for vocational school teachers
with an emphasis on how this issue should be explained to students. We will
also teach the teachers to effectively use online laboratory tasks.
3)
We will prepare a pilot testing for vocational school students, in the
framework of which they will use both online laboratory tasks and the new
learning materials with their teachers.
4) We will prepare several
teaching blocks for university students, which will be focused mainly on more
advanced tasks in cybersecurity. Here we will also use the developed learning
materials and online laboratory tasks.
Evaluation, promotions,
dissemination
All key results will be
evaluated by independent experts (international board) to achieve the highest
quality. The results will be continuously advertised and promoted to the
relevant target audiences in the partner countries as well as abroad, using all
suitable channels and means.
Project consortium
The project consortium consists
of five members; it includes teams from three technical universities and two
technical vocational schools based in three European countries:
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• České vysoké učení technické v Praze (CZ),
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• Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave (SK),
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• Universitat Politčcnica de
Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (ES),
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• Vyšší odborná škola
informačních studií a Střední škola elektrotechniky, multimédií a informatiky (CZ),
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• Stredná odborná škola informačných technológií (SK).
The partner teams are composed
in such a way that cybersecurity experts, pedagogy and didactics specialists,
programmers and educational application developers are represented in them.
There will also be people who have very good contacts with the target groups in
order to reach them effectively and thus maximize the impact of the developed
outputs and planned events.
The future
After the conclusion of the project, we intend to expand the portfolio with other online tasks, including the involvement of the wider public in these educational activities. We will continue to operate the new cybersecurity portal and expand it as possible.