This year, the staff of the Department of Cybersecurity of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv joined the Digital Skills & Jobs Platform / Cybersecurity Skills Academy.
The Cybersecurity Skills Academy is an European Union initiative established in April 2023 to address the shortage of skills and talent in cybersecurity in Europe. It aims to close the skills gap by combining and better coordinating existing training, upskilling and retraining programmes.
The platform is based on four pillars:
- Knowledge generation and trainings: Fostering knowledge generation through education and training by establishing a common EU approach to cybersecurity training.
- Involving stakeholders and academia: Calling on stakeholders and academia to make pledges, improve gender balance in cybersecurity and include specific measures to address the cybersecurity skills gap in national cybersecurity strategies.
- Funding and projects: Ensuring a better channelling and visibility over available funding opportunities and existing projects for skills-related activities to maximise their impact.
- Measuring progress: Developing a methodology to monitor the evolution of the market and measure the progress achieved towards closing the cybersecurity skills gap.
The participants of this platform from Lviv University were the Head of the Department of Cybersecurity Petro Vengerskyi, as well as the staff of the Department Valerii Trushevskyi, Oleh Hutik, Mykhailo Kropyva, Roman Karpiuk, Mykola Shcherbyna, Yurii Kuzbyt and Liubov Nykytiuk.
Within the framework of cooperation, new partnerships were established with the Academy community, namely with the University of Southern Denmark (Denmark), the University of Djemal Bijedic in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Ludovika University of Public Service (Hungary), and the computer company CS VISOR GmbH(Germany).
The delegation of the Department of Cybersecurity officially represented Lviv University at a hybrid meeting in Brussels in late winter 2025. The meeting discussed issues of future cooperation, namely joint internships and partnerships of academic staff for access to educational materials, further preparation of courses with international certification, introduction and development of student internships, access to trainings with international certification, studying the experience of partner universities and vocational schools for joint curriculum development.
The next meeting of the Digital Summit will take place on 17-18 June in Gdańsk, Poland, and will be dedicated to signing partnership agreements, discussing new proposals and consolidating current cooperation.