Empowering a Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats

EU-HYBNET is a Pan-European network of security practitioners, stakeholders, academics, industry players, and SMEs actors across EU collaborating with each other in ever increasing numbers to counter hybrid threats.

Objectives:

EU-HYBNET (Empowering a Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats) project aims to empower its network to fight against hybrid threats by proliferating knowledge and facilitating cooperation between industry, practitioners and academia, and by providing advanced solutions for network collaboration and delivering recommendations for training, standardization and industrialization of cutting-edge innovations.

The main project objectives are:

To enrich the existing network countering hybrid threats and ensure long term sustainability.
To define common requirements that can fill knowledge gaps, deal with performance needs, and enhance capabilities of research, innovation and training endeavours concerning hybrid threats.
To monitor developments in research and innovation activities as applied to hybrid threats.
To indicate priorities for innovation uptake and industrialisation and to determine priorities for standardisation for empowering the Pan-European network to effectively counter hybrid threats.
To establish conditions for enhanced interaction with practitioners, industry and academia for meaningful dialogue and for increasing membership in the network.
To foster capacity building and knowledge exchange on countering hybrid threats.
To create a basis for establishing effective synergies with existing European, national and sub-national networks of practitioners and other actors countering hybrid threats.

Concept and approach

To achieve the objectives of the project, we will apply an iterative approach, consisting of three full scale project cycles in three core activity areas: i) research (incl. training), ii) innovation monitoring, and iii) recommendations for standardisation and innovation uptake (including industrialisation). Additionally, in a concluding fourth cycle, the project will collect results from each of the previous three cycles, draw conclusions, and make suitable recommendations.