COcyber gathered partners and Advisory Board to the 3rd General Assembly
This week, from June 23 to 24 (2025), the COcyber project called its third general meeting in Brussels (Belgium) to discuss the achievements of the project’s first year and to plan ahead for the next key activities that contribute to the central mission of joining the forces of civilian and defense cybersecurity spheres.
On the first day, discussions kicked off with a focus on the COcyber Secretariat (Work Package 2), a group formed by project partners to oversee the organisation of COcyber community events — including public consultations, capacity-building sessions, and roundtable discussions. To date, we count 310+ members in the COcyber community, and we continue to engage more target stakeholders who could benefit from the events and results produced. Our COcyber Secretariat aims to put in place concrete tools and processes for the partners for their event organisation and to build continuous stakeholder engagement.
The discussions moved forward with Lisbon Council introducing to the partners a new version of the COcyber platform (WP3), which is soon to be released. New features include a knowledge base of existing dual-solution resources and an AI-empowered policy coach — both online tools empowering professionals adopting a dual approach in their cybersecurity-related activities.
The first day was concluded with insights into know-how, good practice sharing, and information transfer activities (WP4), led by Université Libre de Bruxelles / Solvay Business School. Notably, they shared the initial results from the recent public consultation on best practices in the implementation of dual-cybersecurity solutions, which will be one of the major tangible results of COcyber. Furthermore, partners will shortly release a new online survey to gather stakeholders’ input on their experiences with cybersecurity knowledge and information transfer, which will feed the national case studies dedicated to this topic — another forthcoming major result of COcyber.
The second day was dedicated to discussions on COcyber’s impact activities, related to communication and dissemination, as well as sustainability and exploitation plans. All partners have been active in representing COcyber across 16+ European digital safety-related events. In addition, the project has so far onboarded 13 ambassadors — cybersecurity professionals — who support the outreach activities and engage more stakeholders in the ever-growing community.
The most crucial part of the day was the first Advisory Board meeting, gathering COcyber’s external experts in a hybrid manner for their first joint session with the project. EIT Digital, COcyber’s coordinator, walked the board through the key achievements of the first project year with the aim of obtaining feedback and insights from this experts’ pool for the continuation of the activities. The COcyber platform especially raised a lot of the experts’ interest, including questions such as how the security of the platform is managed to ensure secure and trustworthy information sharing, and who could benefit most from the AI-empowered policy coach. The feedback from the experts’ pool will guide the project in its next steps in the key activities.
We warmly thank our partner, the European Organisation for Cybersecurity, for hosting us for these two days in summery Brussels!
Be part of our mission of joining forces for improved digital safety — register at cocyber.eu and stay tuned for updates on the release of the COcyber platform tools and a new series of deliverables!