ETACS
Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity
Workshop Chairs
- → Jan Hajny
- → Pavel Loutocky
- → Giuseppe Bianchi
- → Rocco De Nicola
- → Sara Ricci
Detail 01/04
ETACS 2026 addresses cybersecurity education, training, and awareness at a time when the shortage of cybersecurity experts remains a major global challenge. The workshop welcomes contributions from academia, government, and industry on higher-education cybersecurity curricula, professional training, cyber ranges and their coalitions across Europe, awareness assessment and awareness-raising methods, implementation experiences, and lessons learned. It also emphasizes the identification of skills necessary for cybersecurity work roles and aims to bring together universities, professional training institutions, industry, government, and EU agencies to discuss current challenges and practical solutions in cybersecurity education and training.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to 02/04
- Description and application of cybersecurity skills frameworks
- Comparison of existing skills frameworks, contributions to the EU Skills Framework
- Description of curricula related to cybersecurity
- Lessons learned from a training experience
- Lessons learned from the use of a given technology
- Publication of a tool related to cyber ranges
- Gamification, capture the flag, red/blue teaming
- Piloting cybersecurity study programs and trainings
- Feedback on awareness campaigns
Workshop Chairs 03/04
Workshop Chairs
Program Committee
Submission 04/04
Submission Guidelines
The submission guidelines valid for the workshop are the same as for the ARES conference.