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EU CyberNet’s 2024 Wrapped!

EU CyberNet’s 2024 is wrapped: a year of building bridges and navigating the path to stronger cyber capacity across the world. The EU CyberNet team wishes happy holidays’ season and is looking forward to 2025 with excitement!

“As we close the chapter of 2024, we’re reflecting on a year of milestones and achievements. Our mission of enhancing international collaboration in cyber capacity building has thrived thanks to our incredible Expert Network and partners.” – Liina Areng, EU CyberNet Director. 

2024 in numbers 

  • 57 Countries Reached: From Europe to the Americas and beyond, our initiatives we on a global scale. 
  • 167 new experts in the Expert Pool: Our Expert Pool now connects 484 cyber experts to tackle global cyber challenges. 
  • 90+ activities organised and events attended: from workshops to policy dialogues and drills, we delivered practical hands-on trainings and knowledge-enriching opportunities. 
  • 3200+ participants in attendance: engaging from grass-root level to facilitate knowledge-transfer.  
  • 6 new LAC4 members: Antigua & Barbuda, Ecuador, Guatemala, Uruguay, Cyber 4.0 and NUMU are building cyber resilience in Latin Americas and the Caribbean. 
  • 47 new stakeholders: Connecting almost 120 European stakeholders and projects to act together. 

Key Highlights 

Looking Ahead

“As we gear up for 2025, we remain focused on delivering practical, needs-based capacity building initiatives and fostering cross-border, cross-regional community development to enhance cyber resilience globally. A special attention will continue to be placed on increasing women participation and engagement in cybersecurity, while also bringing practical capacity building initiatives to SMEs and local municipalities. We look forward to 2025 with new cooperation initiatives with key European and LAC stakeholders as well as continue with our well-established flagship events like CyberWeek – 0ct0b3rf35t @LAC4 and EU CyberNet Summer School.” – Liina Areng, EU CyberNet Director.  

Thank you!

EU CyberNet team extends its deep gratitude to every expert, partner and stakeholder who were with us this year: thank you for being part of the mission towards a more cyber resilient world!  



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