About the node

[260224] RISE is running a national cybersecurity collaboration and competence node to accelerate research and innovation in the industry and public sector. It is finaced by VINNOVA and collaborating with the NCC-SE at The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. This competence community is part of the EU project ECCC.

Johanna Parikka Altenstedt and Petra Fröderberg are coordinators for the work in the node. They are both part of the cybersecurity unit at RISE, led by Andreas Aurelius.

The node aims to:

• Create a favorable innovation arena for the Swedish cybersecurity industry and contribute to faster and more secure digitalisation in Swedish business and industry and among Swedish public actors.
• This will be done by bringing together business, academia and the public sector with the task of identifying, prioritizing, initiating and conducting research and innovation activities in the cybersecurity area.
• In this way, Swedish competitiveness and exports in cybersecurity will also be strengthened. In addition, the work with the node will significantly strengthen Sweden’s opportunities to seek and win funding from the research and innovation investments in cyber security made by the EU.

Vinnova is financing the node’s work with about 3 million SEK per year during the period 2020-2027. The node has no membership fee.

Security and confidentiality

Issues regarding well-balanced information security, security protection and personal data handling will be a high priority in the node’s work, depending on the serious threat to Sweden and Swedish cybersecurity.