Project summary
CAMPUS addresses digital resilience: local and regional authorities’ (LRA) ability to resist, absorb and recover from disruption caused by external digital threats or natural disasters, by enforcing cybersecurity/resilience legislation, critical infrastructures and digital/cybersecurity skills.
CAMPUS’s overall objective is precisely to support partner territories to become more digitally resilient.
CAMPUS looks at how regional policies can support digital campuses for resilience, starting from the example of the Bretagne Cyber Campus, which is considered a key tool to support European resilience, allowing LRAs to improve their capacity of addressing today’s many cyber challenges. In line with The Resilience Dashboard (EC 2021), it focuses on 3 thematic areas (digital for personal space, for industry and for public space) and on 1 crosscutting area: cybersecurity.
CAMPUS brings together 10 partners from 7 countries, including 1 EU candidate country. They represent key policy players: regional and local authorities, innovation agencies, digital innovation hubs and one university.
The project approach is designed to move from territorial analysis, to good practice identification and exchange, with the aim of matching policy challenges and solutions to achieve policy improvements.
Interregional learning is used to:
- Evaluate the Bretagne Campus
- Run a comparative evaluation of other regions
- Support each territory to set up, launch and implement the Campus to face specific regional challenges
- Implement and monitor policy changes that increase digital resilience of European regions.
CAMPUS intends to shape a proactive approach to digital resilience, building capacity of regional stakeholders. Through impact on selected policy instruments, it makes cybersecurity and crises mitigation an integral part of regional development, demonstrating that the costs of non-resilience are higher than the advantages of investing in resilience.