Strengthening STEM Talent and Entrepreneurial Pathways for Cybersecurity Ventures in Europe

The main objective of Cyber Venture is to establish a transnational Cyber Skills Ecosystem that empowers learners to become innovators and entrepreneurs by integrating industry-defined challenges across Health, Energy, Aviation and Manufacturing sectors, access pilot areas to facilitate testing their solutions through interdisciplinary mentorship pool, and strong training on entrepreneurship, commercialisation, IPR And access to funds competences. Through real industrial problem acquisition, and guided venture creation activities, participants gain the capacity to design, prototype, and develop new cybersecurity products and services that directly address these manufacturing-specific needs, thereby contributing to a stronger and more sovereign European cyber innovation ecosystem. CyberVentures will pilot this approach with selected sectors in Manufacturing (Textile, Ceramic, Automotive, Machinery), Health, Energy ( Green Energy Ecosystem), and aviation, with the help of sectoral representatives. By doing so, CyberVenture aims to increase emergence of a new generation of cyber-entrepreneurs capable of transforming sector-specific challenges into innovative, sovereign, and scalable products that strengthen Europe’s digital autonomy and resilience.