Final Educational and Assessment Framework

The European Union needs to ensure that highly skilled engineers, scientists and other specialists in all areas of cybersecurity are educated throughout their lifetime, to implement, support and lead solutions regarding current and future industrial, scientific, societal and political challenges related to cybersecurity. This goal leads to the following main questions: What are the knowledge areas, units and skills that can be taught (in general)? What are the knowledge areas, units and skills that should be taught for specific purposes? How should an education unit be designed and offered? How does one assess and evaluate the quality of an educational offer? One of the goals of CyberSec4Europe is to define and propose an education and assessment framework that addresses those questions, and that serves as a support for continuing education and lifelong learning in all the mentioned areas of cybersecurity. The aim of the framework is not to produce all possible content required to implement educational and training programmes, but instead to propose and define guidelines and tools that support the design of capability building instruments, open to external sources and third-party material outside the consortium, that in particular contain criteria and methodologies to ensure adequate quality standards. This includes the identification of cybersecurity knowledge units and curricula, the specification of learning objectives and competences required to develop and enhance cybersecurity skills for different profiles and roles, the development of training and awareness to achieve such objectives and competences, together with activities to apply and test such competencies.