REWIRE (Cybersecurity Skills Alliance – New Vision for Europe)

REWIRE develops a Blueprint strategy of skills development for the cybersecurity industry in Europe. Buidling upon four pilot projects – CONCORDIA, SPARTA, ECHO, CyberSec4Europe – the project consolidates relevant aspects of cybersecurity education across Europe.

The global vision for the skills strategy for cybersecurity in Europe, as developed in REWIRE, includes:

• A skills framework, describing the various job profiles, skills and knowledge relevant for cybersecurity, in an organized manner, and building upon already existing work (ENISA ECSF, ESCO, and output from the pilot projects);
• Attractiveness of the cybersecurity sector, describing an analysis of the cybersecurity job market and the demand for cybersecurity professionnals;
• Tools for skills identification, enabling interested parties to provide better job descriptions and courses descriptions;
• Tools for skills development, identifying courses and programs for acquiring skills and knowledge, as well as career pathways to enable skills development over time;
• 5.Governance, describing how such a cybersecurity skills framework could be maintained in the long term for the benefit of the European community.

Goal
By addressing the skill gaps and shortages in different occupational profiles and qualifications of the cybersecurity sector, REWIRE seeks to acheive a coherent strategy through following specific objectives in Innovation, Impact, and Sustainability.

Innovation:

• design and deliver the European Cybersecurity Blueprint;
• develop the European Cybersecurity Skills Framework, update existing and create 4 new occupational profiles;
• deliver training programmes on highly innovative fields;
• develop a digital on-line publicly accessible Skills Observatory for cybersecurity skills merging the market needs, the profiles, the competencies and the available training courses.

Impact:

• involve all stakeholders for exploiting the VET potential in cutting-edge subjects for creating growth and jobs in the Cybersecurity sector;
• enhance the use of cyberranges;
• promote the application of EQAVET and EQF/ECVET frameworks that ensure both quality and better transferability of the project’s results.

Sustainability:

• create a lasting partnership of all types of stakeholders that will monitor and adjust to changes in the sector’s needs;
• facilitate transnational mobility between the sectors’ stakeholders;
• provide transversal skills as well as career guidance, career management skills and access to the labour market, thus improving their long-term employability.

Lead Partner
Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania)

Partners involved
EKT (Lithuania), NRD Cyber Security (Lithuania), InfoBalt (Lithuania), TÜV AUSTRIA , APIROPLUS Solutions (Cyprus), European University Cyprus, Cyprus Certification Company, Brno University of Technology (Czechia), Masaryk University (Czechia), EC-Council (International Council of E-Commerce Consultants) (United States), EFVET (European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training), EVTA (European Vocational Training Association) , Télécom SudParis (France), Télécom Nancy (France), Technical University of Crete (Greece), Metropolitan College (Greece), ReadLab (Greece), LRQA (Greece), Műegyetem (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) (Hungary), Tecnico Lisboa (Portugal), Unicom Telecom (Serbia), Caixa Bank (Spain), la Salle Ramon Llull University (Spain), KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Duration
November 2020 – October 2024

Funding
EU-funded

More information: https://rewireproject.eu/about/