HETEL has participated during March and April 2026 in two working meetings of the European Erasmus+ project CyberSecure Teaching: Strengthening Digital Resilience in K-12, Vocational Education, and Teacher Training, a Teacher Academy aimed at strengthening teachers’ competences in cybersecurity and digital hygiene. Setúbal (Portugal), 23–26 March The second Transnational Project Meeting took place at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. Over four days of intensive work, the consortium partners reviewed the progress made since the kick-off meeting in Finland, with particular focus on the teacher needs analysis (gap analysis) and the mapping of existing cybersecurity teaching materials. The meeting included a dedicated session on special needs, led by Masaryk University, and several working sessions in which the pedagogical and conceptual principles for the project’s teaching materials were established: key distinctions between teacher and student materials, shared conceptual frameworks, development templates and quality assurance criteria. The meeting concluded with concrete agreements enabling each partner to begin developing content immediately. St. Pölten (Austria), 14–16 April Just a few weeks later, the consortium met again at the Fachhochschule St. Pölten. This working week focused on the presentation of the second version of the needs analysis survey, the definition of the project’s target groups and progress on assessment tools. A session was also devoted to communication and dissemination, and the partners worked on consolidating the week’s results to plan the tasks ahead for the coming months, including the preparation of the next meeting in Belgium, dedicated to the Community of Practice. HETEL’s contribution HETEL is actively contributing to the project by bringing in the Vocational Education and Training perspective, a field where cybersecurity is increasingly relevant for both teachers and students. Our participation ranges from the design of the gap analysis instrument and the mapping of teaching materials to the integration of the VET perspective into the development of training resources. The CyberSecure Teaching project (2026–2028) is coordinated by JAMK University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and involves nine partners from six European countries: Finland, Austria, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and the Czech Republic. It is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. #ErasmusPlus #CyberSecureTeaching #Cybersecurity #VET #VocationalEducation #HETEL #TeacherAcademy
