Cyber security competence for research and innovation (CONCORDIA)
Europe needs to step up its efforts and strengthen its very own security capacities to secure its digital society, economy, and democracy. The vision for Europe can only be to join forces across Europe’s research, industry and public sector and
to include all talents not just those that have representation in the EU mainstream or are within big organizations.
The area of cybersecurity is geographically fragmented across Europe for competences, and often also technically fragmented
with problem-specific development of security solutions. There is no doubt that excellent research exists in Europe. Nevertheless, it is a fact that this research does not result in IT products and solutions that contribute to the European Single
Digital Market. On contrary, a lot of research, also financed by EU ERC grants, is tested on real data in large US companies that cooperate with them. Europe has to and is already rethinking this strategy.
CONCORDIA addresses the current
fragmentation of security competence by networking diverse competences into a leadership role via a synergistic agglomeration of a pan-European Cybersecurity Center. The vision of CONCORDIA is to build a community a strong cooperation between all
stakeholders, understanding that all stakeholders are fostering the development of IT products and solutions along the whole supply chain.
