Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia
Estonia and South Moravia are teaming up to support the EU’s safe transition to a digital society. Estonia is among the most advanced digital societies globally, with an outstanding e-government infrastructure. South Moravia is a major Czech ICT powerhouse in industry and education, with a strong focus on cyber-security. The EU-funded CHESS project will create a Cyber-security Excellence Hub aiming to develop a joint cross-border cyber-security research and innovation strategy and running pilots to support the identification of strengths and gaps.
The Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia (CHESS) brings together leading R&I institutions in both regions to build connected innovation ecosystems to address one of the most important issues confronting Europe today: Cyber-security. The CHESS Hub has been designed specifically to meet the Cyber-security challenges, building two linked Hubs in Estonia and South Moravia (Czech Republic), two regions that have already become important centres of IT industry and research. We develop a joint strategy that is closely aligned to the priorities set by the H2020 flagship cyber-security pilot projects. Our place-based ecosystems identifies research and training needs as well as executing small pilot research projects as proofs of concept or to otherwise validate technologies or their business models. We seek to bridge the research-innovation gap by connecting fundamental researchers with economic and societal exploitation. CHESS seeks to leverage local and regional resources to support development and sustainability of the ecosystem. While the project is around its midtime, it already delivered significant results, such as intersectoral brokerage events, international pilots of advanced technologies and significant publications. The involvement of BUT in CHESS also led to our participation in Horizon Europe call, such as those focused on post-quantum technologies.
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