cyberwatching.eu is the European observatory of research and innovation in the field of cybersecurity and privacy

As a European observatory of research and innovation in the field of cybersecurity and privacy, Cyberwatching.eu allows immediate access to useful informations related to other R&I projects, news, findings, legal tips, among many others aspects that are essential for those operating in the cybersecurity and privacy world.

For SPARTA, it has been a fruitful experience to work with Cyberwatching.eu team in order to promote our project. The results received are much better than expected, especially with the promotion of Sparta as “Project of the week”. Looking forward to further cooperation!

The SMESEC project started a couple of months ago a very fruitful collaboration with Cyberwatching.eu in order to identify common needs, stakeholders, business opportunity, etc. This collaboration has been very successful so far as we were invited to a webinar and a cybersecurity event (CyberSec 2018) where we were able to present our work to a large number of different organizations.

Thanks to this we were able to contact different SMEs and other cybersecurity organizations with interest in our results, both for collaborating in a joint development or use them in their day-to-day business.

GAIA has identified cybersecurity as one of the KET in our last strategic plan (2017 – 2021) and working with cyberwatching.eu network has allowed us to connect with potential European projects mainly related to ethics, trust and usability.

Moreover, GAIA is an active participant of the webinars organised by Cyberwatching, which has allowed us to identify potential collaborations for our cluster members allowing them to participate in some pilots and testing carried out by the different projects running. 

From a very practical point of view we have identified health, financial and maritime as key sectors in which Europe and US are willing to cooperate more in terms of stimulating innovation approaches in cybersecurity and privacy in order to shape the global landscape.

With the substantial investment being made by EC & national governments into cybersecurity R&I activities it is essential that these project create long term impact.

The first step in achieving this is understanding where the projects sit within a defined cybersecurity and privacy landscape, and the second is knowing where the products developed by these projects are in terms of readiness for usage outside the project, both individually but also when compared to other outputs in an overall view of the domain within the Cyberwatching Technology Radar.