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#32026D1416EU sets up the Cybersecurity Skills Coalition European Digital Infrastructure Consortium

🇪🇺European Union··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This decision creates a new EU-level consortium, CSC-EDIC, to coordinate a multi-country project on cybersecurity skills and training. Greece will host it, with Austria, Croatia, Cyprus and Slovenia joining as founding members. The practical goal is to reduce the cybersecurity talent gap by supporting education, training and workforce development across public authorities, industry and SMEs. Businesses and public bodies in participating countries may see more coordinated training programmes, capacity-building projects and opportunities linked to the EU Cybersecurity Skills Academy.

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Key Changes

  • Creates the Cybersecurity Skills Coalition European Digital Infrastructure Consortium as an EU-recognised body
  • Names Greece as the host country and confirms Austria, Croatia, Cyprus and Slovenia as founding members
  • Sets the consortium’s main task as coordinating a multi-country project to improve cybersecurity training and workforce capacity

Obligations

What this law requires

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CSC-EDIC must implement the multi-country project in the area of cybersecurity skills and training identified in the Annex to Decision (EU) 2022/2481.

European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Cybersecurity Skills Coalition (CSC-EDIC)
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Affected Parties

Public authorities in participating EU member statesBusinesses and SMEs needing cybersecurity skills+2 more…

Tags

cybersecurity,digital skills,EU consortium…