On 19 July, Apolline Rolland, Researcher at Virtual Routes, attended the closing ceremony of the first session of the Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars Program at Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.| Virtual Routes
On 30th June, 2025, Virtual Routes Project Officer YuYing Mak visited Romania’s Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN) to attend the closing event for the first run of UTCN’s Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars program.| Virtual Routes
On 10 June, Virtual Routes Co-Director James Shires spoke at the annual Research & Teaching Day of the US Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, organized by the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley.| Virtual Routes
Virtual Routes are proud to have contributed to the recent Google.org Impact Summit, held in early June in London, UK. As the first Impact Summit held outside the US, this event had a special focus on technology philanthropy in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)| Virtual Routes
On May 17, YuYing Mak, Project Officer at Virtual Routes, attended the inaugural session of Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma’s (UCBM) Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars in Rome, Italy.| Virtual Routes
This marks the first time Virtual Routes will independently implement the program, after supporting its successful deployment in higher education institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.| Virtual Routes
On 7 April, the Ecole Superieure d’Informatique, Electronique, Automatique (ESIEA) launched its Cybersecurity Seminars program at its campus in Paris.| Virtual Routes
If there is high demand and limited space for the Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars Program, universities may use this intake questionnaire as a guide to help select a diverse and balanced group of students while ensuring maximum impact and inclusion.| Virtual Routes
On March 4, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilnius Tech) announced the launch of its Google.org Cybersecurity Seminar program, supported by Virtual Routes. Designed to equip students with practical cybersecurity skills, the program focuses on real-world problem-solving and direct engagement with local organizations. As cybersecurity threats grow in complexity, traditional education…| Virtual Routes
Today marks an exciting development in the effort to improve global cybersecurity education: the Google.org Cybersecurity Seminar program has expanded its reach beyond Europe to include higher education institutions across the Middle East and Africa| Virtual Routes
On Wednesday 29 January, Virtual Routes Co-Director Dr James Shires attended the launch of the Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars program in Poland. Senior representatives from the two participating universities - Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University - officially started their programs, aiming to provide practical cybersecurity education to students and impactful cybersecurity assistance to local communities.| Virtual Routes
On December 9, Riga Technical University (RTU) announced the launch of their Google.org Cybersecurity Seminar program. Virtual Routes supports the implementation of the program.| Virtual Routes
This guide provides best practices for higher education institutions when engaging with Local Community Organizations (LCOs) in practical cybersecurity education, especially as part of the Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars.| Virtual Routes
We are excited to introduce the Cybersecurity and AI Readings Portal, a resource created as part of our Cybersecurity Seminar Program supported by Google.org. This portal is designed to assist instructors at universities across the world in building their syllabus for courses in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. You can access the portal here. What is […]| Virtual Routes
This report, researched during summer 2024, examines the increased use of AI chatbots in academia following the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 and the response by educational institutions through AI detection tools.| Virtual Routes
This guide provides an overview of best practices for incorporating equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) into practical cybersecurity education, especially in the Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars program.| Virtual Routes
Google.org and the European Cyber Conflict Research Incubator are excited to announce the extension of the European Cybersecurity Seminars program to all 27 EU countries. Universities from any EU country – other than the seven EU countries receiving grants in the initial phase – are invited to apply to a second Open Call, launching on 8 April […]| Virtual Routes
Key Finding 1 THE AVAILABILITY OF CYBERSECURITY DEGREE PROGRAMS VARIES ACROSS EUROPE Students interested in cybersecurity have multiple options to choose from for their university education. On average, we found 28 cybersecurity degrees per country across a total of 109 universities. However, the number of available degrees varies across each of the seven countries. At […]| Virtual Routes
texto en español abajo The European Cybersecurity Seminar program was officially announce on November 29, 2023, in Malaga. This announcement, made by the European Cyber Conflict Research Incubator (ECCRI CIC) in partnership with Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, coincided with the inauguration of Google’s new office in the city. In a fireside chat, Max Smeets, Co-Director […]| Virtual Routes