26/01/2016
The Centre for Ethics coordinates CANVAS – a H2020 Consortium for Value-Driven Cybersecurity
The growing complexity of the digital ecosystem in combination with increasing global risks entail the danger that enforcing cybersecurity may bypass other fundamental values like equality, fairness or privacy, whereas downplaying cybersecurity would undermine citizens’ trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure. This January, the European Commission has chosen the CANVAS Consortium – Constructing an Alliance for Value-driven Cybersecurity – to unify technology developers with legal and ethical scholar and social scientists to approach the challenge how cybersecurity can be aligned with European values and fundamental rights with a particular focus on three domains of application: the health system, finance, and law enforcement / national security. Among others, CANVAS aims to create a reference curriculum for value-driven cybersecurity with a focus on industry-training, briefing packages for policy stakeholders, and a MOOC (massive open online course) on value-driven cybersecurity. The Consortium, coordinated by the Centre for Ethics of the University of Zurich, unifies scholars from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), the Universität Hamburg (Germany), the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany), the ADAPT Centre of the Dublin City University (Ireland), the Technische Universiteit Delft (Netherlands), the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain), the Université de Lausanne (Switzerland), and the Berner Fachhochschule Biel (Switzerland). In addition, the leading European ICT Security company F-Secure (Finland) and the Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) add expertise to the consortium. CANVAS aims to start its activities in the second half of 2016.
