// About the congress
About us
Sibiu CyberSecurity Dialogues is a neutral, non-profit, non-technical and non-marketing platform and networking event for Eastern and Central Europe, organised by the Swiss Webacademy in Sibiu.
Non-profit
Public-private dialogue
ITU best practice · 2015
Since 2013
// How it started
The background of the event's birth
ITU · 2015
“Best practice example for the European continent.”
The recognition the congress received from the International Telecommunication Union, the UN agency for ICT.
The Sibiu CyberSecurity Dialogues Congress was born as a neutral, non-profit, non-technical and non-marketing platform where public institutions, private companies and academia sit at the same table to talk about cyber threats in Eastern and Central Europe.
In 2015 the International Telecommunication Union recognised the congress as a best-practice example for the European continent.
Alongside the congress, the quarterly journal Cybersecurity Trends circulates in three countries, in Romanian, English and Italian.
// The organiser
Swiss Webacademy, Sibiu
The Swiss Webacademy is a professional NGO, active in Romania since 2002. Until 2012 it was known as the Romanian-Swiss Multimedia Institute. It was founded with investment from the Swiss Confederation and the Republic and Canton of Jura, in partnership with the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland.
Its original mission was to deliver diplomas in web development, software development and embedded systems programming.
Between 2004 and 2010 the academy managed seven PHARE projects and two POS-CC/POSDRU projects, worth over 1.2 million EUR in applied research funding.
2002
Active in Romania since
€1.2M+
Applied research funding, 2004–2010
// Academic partnerships
2011
Agreement with Sibiu State University to expand the course offer
2013
Collaboration with the Institut Universitaire Technique of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté University
2015
Contract with the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HEIG-VD)
// Milestones
From a Sibiu classroom to a European network
2002
An academy is born
The Romanian-Swiss Multimedia Institute opens in Sibiu with Swiss funding. It is renamed Swiss Webacademy in 2012.
2010 – 2011
Capacity building
Two forums and training sessions for the Romanian National Police and the Ministry of Justice, together with ILCE (Neuchâtel).
2013
The dialogue platform
Following an ITU proposal, the Central-European Public-Private Dialogue Networking Platform is set up.
2015
Journal & ITU recognition
Cybersecurity Trends launches as a free quarterly awareness journal, and the ITU names the congress a best-practice example for Europe.
2017
Going multilingual & west
Italian, English, French and German editions of the journal launch in January. In December, Cybersecurity Western Europe premieres in Porrentruy, Switzerland.
2018
The Mediterranean edition
Cybersecurity-Mediterranean premieres in May 2018 in Noto, Italy, bringing the dialogue format to southern Europe.
// Partners
Built on public-private trust
Cybersecurity Trends is the only journal with a permanent section written by the ITU Cybersecurity Department. The congress and the journal rely on long-standing institutional partners in Romania and abroad.
Permanent · Romania
Institutional partners
General Inspectorate of the Romanian National Police
Cyberint Center – Romanian Intelligence Service
CERT-RO
ANCOM – National Telecom Regulator
Romanian Gendarmerie
Special Telecommunications Service
Europe · International
International partners
French National Gendarmerie & CREOGN
IHEDN – Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence
IATA – International Air Transport Association
Ministry of Economy of Geneva
Geneva State Police
Global Cyber Security Center, Rome
// Legal & contact
Who we are, on paper
Legal entity
Asociatia Swiss Webschool
Fiscal code (CUI)
30526423
NGO register
56 / F / 24.07.2012
Address
Str. Scoala de Inot nr. 18, 550005 Sibiu, Romania
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Contact
GDPR
Privacy notice
Personal data is processed under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, based on the legitimate interests of the organiser. Where we ask for your consent, processing is based on Article 6(1)(a) and Article 7 GDPR.
You can ask at any time for your data to be updated, corrected or deleted by contacting the Swiss Webacademy at office@swissacademy.eu.
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