OBJECTIVE I: To promote professional, personal and digital skills among VET teachers and trainers for the field of cybersecurity. All learning scenarios are based on the needs of the relevant professions and the relevant training institutions. Therefore, they are easy to implement and to transfer. OBJECTIVE II: To incorporate modern and immersive technologies into VET cybersecurity training – combined use of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), WebVR and learning videos in the CybARverse e-learning content. Partners aimed for the media-pedagogical enrichment of cybersecurity training within 16 tailor-made teaching and training scenarios. OBJECTIVE III: Structured qualification of up to 80 VET teachers and trainers to become cybersecurity aware and literate. The establishment of the CybARverse academy in LT, CY, MT and RO just enables collaboration form for the topic of cybersecurity and for IT and non-IT professions. OBJECTIVE IV: To ensure the sustainability of the project results by raising sustainable interest of the CybARverse results on the operational level of the partners, even after the project has finished, relevant sharing and promotion activities were planned.
We continue to live in the age of "cyber-pandemic". Our daily life increasingly takes place in the digital space. At the same time cyber-attacks and online threats are affecting both organizations and individuals. Cybersecurity plays an essential role in it as demanded in the Digital Education Action Plan for individuals, educational institutions and companies. The increased use of digital technologies must go hand in hand with mainstreaming the topic of cybersecurity literacy and awareness. Currently teaching staff lacks knowledge and skills to respond to cybersecurity threats, mostly not even on a basic level as cybersecurity training to non-IT specialists is novel and not easily accessible. CybARverse (= blend of cybersecurity, metaverse and Augmented Reality (AR)) bridges the qualification gap by developing and transferring immersive cybersecurity teaching and learning scenarios. CybARverse integrates and sustains its activities by combining technology, pedagogy, and organisation. To promote cybersecurity literacy, the CybARverse Academies in partner countries (LT, CY, MT, and RO) provide learning opportunities and this results in cybersecurity literate teachers, equally of all genders and people with fewer opportunities.