Title: Greece Cybercrime Center of Excellence, Training, Research and Education
Grant agreement no: DG HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/INT/4000002166
Duration: 1 January 2013 - 31 December 2015
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The Greek Cybercrime Center (GCC) is part of an emerging coordinated European effort which has the capacity to significantly improve education and research in the newly growing area of cybercrime. As a national project, GCC seamlessly complements transnational projects such as 2CENTRE (The Cybercrime Centres of Excellence Network), and B-CCENTRE. On a national level, GCC directly benefits the local LEAs to fight cybercrime. Greece ranks very high in reported metrics related to cybercrime infrastructure support. Thus the local LEAs are often called first to deal with cybercrime incidents and any advances in cybercrime training, research, and education provide significant benefit to them. The objectives of GCC are to:
- advance cyber crime training and University education in Greece
- improve research in focused areas of cyber crime such as botnets and cyberattacks
- mobilize the Greek constituency in the area of cyber crime
- collaborate with similar centres so as to maximize the uptake of the results
GCC plans to unfold a two-pronged cybercrime training and education initiative:
- On the one hand, a set of University courses will be developed which will improve the cybercrime understanding for a new generation of scientists and law students.
- On the other hand, a set of short-term highly-focused training courses will target existing LEA personnel, judicial authorities and employees of the industry in order to improve their understanding of cybercrime and improve their day-to-day response.
Combining the expertise of national industry, academia and law enforcement GCC aims to promote the state-of-the-art in cybercrime investigation. At the same time, capitalizing on the excellent research record of its consortium, GCC aspires to become established as a centre of excellence in the area of cybercrime research.
This project has received funding from DG HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/INT/4000002166
