Last Tuesday the EU Commission published an agreement on a new Public-Private Partnership on Cybersecurity with the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), of which the IMDEA Software Institute is a founding member. This PPP is expected to trigger €1.8 billion of investment by 2020.

ECSO is an pan-european industry-led organisation with members including a wide variety of stakeholders such as large European companies, SMEs and Start-ups, users and operators, research centres, universities, clusters and associations as well as European Member State’s local, regional, and national administrations, countries part of the European Economic Area (EEA) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and H2020 associated countries. ECSO collaborates with the European Commission and national public administrations to promote Research and Innovation (R&I) in cybersecurity and will have a key role in establishing the European Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda on Cybersecurity and a Multiannual Roadmap.

The IMDEA Software Institute has participated on the first ECSO General Assembly last week in Brussels, where the governing boards were elected. The representative of RENIC, the Spanish Network of Excelence for Cybersecurity Research, of which the IMDEA Software Institute is also a founding member, has been elected to be part of the Board of Directors.