Cybersecurity Smart Regions

Context

Cybersecurity risks in Europe are dramatically increasing: cyberespionage, cybercrime and theft of personal data are amongst the more pressing threats to the European society and economy. In the meanwhile, the development of European cyber technologies and of a cybersecurity industry is an opportunity for economic growth and job creation. Yet, cybersecurity in Europe is a nascent market still fragmented. In this context, this partnership aims to foster cooperation between already existing mature ecosystems which has defined cybersecurity as a priority of their Strategy for Smart Specialisation (S3).

Year established: 2018

Regions (lead and partner)

Leading regions: Bretagne (FR)
Participating regions: Partner region(s): Basque Country (ES), Castile and Leon (ES), Central Finland (FI), Estonia (EE), Luxembourg (LU), North Rhine-Westphalia (DE), Tuscany (IT), Wales (UK), Wallonia (BE)

Mission

The mission consists of developing the cybersecurity sector and providing mechanisms for regions to cooperate and engage industry, academia and end-users is forefront to the success of this partnership and of the EU as a whole.

Objectives

The aim of the partnership “Cybersecurity Smart Regions” is to develop interregional cooperation in order to:

create synergies among the existing specialist regions in cybersecurity
facilitate the development of EU cybersecurity value chain
address the challenges that hamper commercialisation of existing and new products and services in Europe
foster business investment on cybersecurity.

Main activities

The main activities are targeted towards the objectives of the partnership.

Organisations involved

Belgium:

CETIC Wallonia (BE)
LSEC (BE)

Finland:

JAMK University (FI)

France:

Images&Réseaux (FR)
Bretagne Developpemet Innovation (FR)
Systematic Paris (FR)

Italy:

PwC Italy (IT)

Luxembourg:

SecMadinLux (LU)

Slovenia:

Slovakia DIHs (SI)

Spain:

Basque Cybersecurity Centre-BCSC (ES)
Tecnalia (ES)
ICE Castilla y Leon (ES)
Eurobits (ES)
Catalonia Cyber Security Agency (ES)

The Netherlands:

Cyberservices (NL)

Other:

The European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)

Shared smart specialisation areas

Digitalisation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence

Related projects

Federated Cyber range project: The primary objective is to enhance the European Cyber Ranges capability by federating existing national Cyber Ranges into a larger cluster with more capacity and unique services. This correspondingly enables to share and pool the capabilities and improve the quality of cyber trainings, exercises as well as using the federation for cyber-related research and development purposes. (https://www.pesco.europa.eu/project/cyber-ranges-federations-crf/)
Interreg Cyber : https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/cyber/news/news-article/15190/interreg-europe-cyber-final-event/

Contact

Aude OLLIVIER-CADORET, aude.ollivier-cadoret@bretagne.bzh