COcyber concluded two years of collaboration with its final General Assembly and Final Conference in Brussels, bringing partners and cybersecurity experts together to reflect on results, legacy and future cooperation. Discussions focused on Europe’s unified cyber shield, policy to practice, safeguarding democracy and dual-use cyber innovation.

COcyber hosted a Cross Project Exploitation Workshop on 18 June 2026, bringing together six European cybersecurity projects to exchange on exploitation pathways, compliance requirements and opportunities for cross project synergies. The discussions will contribute to recommendations supporting stronger alignment between Key Exploitable Results and their path to impact.

CYNERGY 2026 brought Europe’s cybersecurity community to Bucharest to exchange on digital resilience, skills, compliance and dual use innovation. COcyber contributed with the panel How Europe Can Lead on Dual Use Innovation, focusing on technology transfer, information sharing and civil defence cooperation.

The 28DIGITAL Regional Committee and COcyber deep dive session brought together representatives from defence, academia, funding bodies and regional innovation ecosystems to discuss how the findings of the Spain National Case Study can help strengthen collaboration and support a resilient dual use innovation ecosystem.

More than 30 participants joined COcyber's session on European Defence Fund opportunities, dual use innovation and consortium building. The discussions highlighted practical pathways for organisations seeking to access European defence funding and strengthen cross sector cooperation.

Civil and defence cybersecurity stakeholders exchanged European practices and discussed practical steps to strengthen cooperation, trust and preparedness at the event organised by our Slovenian partner.

The COcyber final Policy-Oriented Workshop, gathered cybersecurity, public sector, industry, SME, research and civil–defence stakeholders to review COcyber’s final policy recommendations and identify practical next steps for implementation.

COcyber’s success story on TELEMETRY highlights how trustworthy cybersecurity testing and vulnerability detection can strengthen IoT ecosystems, support secure connected devices, and contribute to more resilient digital infrastructures.

This edition highlights the COcyber platform updates related to funding sources and guidelines, the first two episodes from our Cyber Duality: A Cocyber A podcast series, and presents two success stories showcasing national use cases.

Held in Brussels on 22 April 2026, the COcyber roundtable brought together European cybersecurity stakeholders to define priorities for stronger civil–defence cooperation.