Creation of Cybersecurity Competence Centers
About the project
Competence Centre for the Regulation of Cybersecurity, Privacy Protection and Cybercrime
Short title of the project / Acronym: CUSEC
Applicant: Comenius Universtiry Bratislava, Faculty of Law
The expert guarantor of the competence centre: doc. JUDr. Jozef Andraško, PhD.
Annotation:
The aim of the project is to establish a Competence Centre for the Regulation of Cybersecurity, Privacy Protection and Cybercrime (hereinafter referred to as the "Competence Centre"). The Competence Centre will be established at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law. Two departments of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law, will primarily participate in the implementation of the project, namely the Institute of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law and the Department of Criminal Law, Criminology and Forensic Science. Both departments will concentrate professional capacities in the field of regulation of cybersecurity, privacy protection, cybercrime and related digital regulatory frameworks. Other experts from the fields of administrative law, international law, constitutional law and commercial law are also involved in the project. In addition to the establishment of a competence center, other objectives are to concentrate expert activities and professional capacities on the regulation of cybersecurity, privacy protection, cybercrime, training and education of professional capacities in the regulation of the subject areas, raising awareness of regulation in the above-mentioned areas through guidelines, methodologies and expert opinions. Last but not least, the project aims to concentrate research in the field of regulation of cybersecurity, privacy protection and cybercrime. With regard to the above objectives, the competence center itself will focus on the creation of methodologies and educational materials for the purposes of formal and informal education in the field of regulation of cybersecurity, privacy protection, cybercrime, research activities at the level of basic and applied research, expert activities in the form of participation in working groups in the creation of legislation, sending comments and preparing expert opinions in both the national and European contexts. As part of the research activity, dissertation topics related to the issues of cybersecurity regulation, privacy protection and cybercrime will be announced and scholarships and grants will be provided to students of the doctoral study program. The Competence Center will also provide lifelong learning services in the above-mentioned areas through various courses. The Competence Center also aims to develop cooperation with secondary schools and provide training for secondary school students in selected areas. Workshops for the general public will also be provided. Given the international quality of cybersecurity regulation, the applicant also aims to develop cooperation with similarly specialized entities abroad through direct outreach, organization of conferences and joint scientific outputs. Last but not least, the aim of the Competence Center is to provide expert advice in the preparation and implementation of projects implemented for public sector entities, especially the academic sector, monitoring calls and actively involving academic sector entities in the calls in question.
Link to the project website: https://cusec.flaw.uniba.sk/
Implementation: 01/2025 – 03/2026
Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Slovak Republic within the project No. 17R05-04-V01-00002
Total eligible expenditures requested: 1 008 071,90 EUR included VAT
