Cyprus Cyber Crime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education

The content of this page is displayed in standardized format to serve as quick reference; and facilitate its use during preparation of new applications. Do not change the content of this page without consulting with the project coordinator. For encyclopedic details about the project, please refer to its main page. Cyprus Cybercrime Center of Excellence The Horizon 2020 Strategy of the EU places a high priority on the fight against the prevalence of child sexual abuse material online (the most serious form of cybercrime) and the ensuring of a better Internet for children. Similarly, the ISEC call focuses on the combating of cybercrime and suggests the development of national Cybercrime Centres of Excellence for training, research and education. Building on the abovementioned needs, Cyprus has identified a big gap in its current practices in the fight against cybercrime. Judicial personnel and other private and public officials, working in areas that can have an indirect connection to the fighting of cybercrime, lack the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to effectively perform their jobs when confronted with this topic. Additionally, Cyprus also lacks the relevant infrastructures and investigation tools to conduct effective research on cybercrime. Therefore, the establishment of the Cyprus Cybercrime Centre of Excellence is deemed to be of utmost importance for the country, especially at this moment in time that the National Cyber Security Strategy has been approved and is prioritised highly in the new Government’s agenda.

Formal Project Description Contract Title Cyprus Cyber Crime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education Project Acronym 3CE Lead Partner CNTI Agreement n° HOME/2013/ISEC/AG/INT/4000005229 Partners OCECPR European University Cyprus ADITESS Office for Combating Cybercrime (OCC) Cost of Action 444.063,70 Grant 399.657,33 Dates 01/07/2014 - 30/06/2016 Main Page 3CE - Cyprus Cyber Crime Center of Excellence for Training, Research and Education Website www.3ce.cy

Overall objective(s) The objectives of the 3CE project are: 1. To create a Cyprus Cyber Crime Center of Excellence for training, research and education that will be of similar structure and format with existing National Centers of Excellence in Europe. 2. To collaborate closely and become a member of 2CENTRE; the Cybercrime Center of Excellence Network, established through the funding of the ISEC programme. 3. To collaborate closely with the Cybercrime Centers of Excellence of other countries 4. To become the National Knowledge Center (NKC) in the area of Cybercrime in Cyprus responsible for training all actors working in fields related to cybercrime 5. To provide high quality short training courses in the area of cybercrime 6. To provide interdisciplinary University and Vocational Training Courses in the the area of Cybercrime 7. To collaborate effectively with Europol, EC3 and Eurojust 8. To enhance the efficiency of the identification and investigation of Cybercrime in Cyprus 9. To assert the needs of Cybercrime investigation in Cyprus 10. To link with the Cyprus Safer Internet Center (CSIC) and enhance its awareness campaigns that focus on Cybercrime 11. To serve as the stepping stone towards creating a sustainable infrastructure for the Centre by including aligning 3CE this project within the Cypriot Cyprus National Cyber Security Strategy.