Cyberwise

The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC), is the lead Government Department for cyber security in Ireland, which oversees the implementation of the National Cyber Security Strategy 2019-2024. ln particular, measures 12 and 13 of the Strategy include actions on developing cyber security education and promoting female participation in cybersecurity.

Funded by the DECC, a team of teacher educators and researchers from the School of Education and School of Computer Science in UCD worked in collaboration with a steering group comprising members of the National Centre for Cyber Security (NCSC), the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI), the NCCA and Cyber Ireland to design and implement a Junior Cycle short course on cyber security. 

After a piloting phase, the Junior Cycle Short course has been launched in September 2022.