Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeships and Youth Entrepreneurship Completed

18-COP-0017_Connect the Disconnections - from Disparate Data to Insightful Analysis

National Intelligence Academy "Mihai Viteazul" ·Romania

€148k

Grant awarded

Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeships and Youth Entrepreneurship

Programme

23 August 2019

Signed

About this project

The broad availability of data has led to increasing interest in methods for extracting useful information from data. Therefore, in the process of understanding and mitigating risks and opportunities of big data, complex workloads, new skills and competences have to be acquired. The Theseus project helps governance, social scientists and national security practitioners understand the working principles and processes of big data, so as to develop adaptive models of action, and ability to extract useful knowledge. Within the project, the National Intelligence Academy in Romania MVNIA (expertise in training security practitioners) the Romanian Center for Civic Participation and Democracy SNSPA (expertise in civic behavior and participation), the University of Malta UoM (expertise in privacy law and policy development) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU (expertise in big data analyses, digital forensic and applied computer science research for police and intelligence investigations) join expertise and elaborate 4 teaching modules course and an interactive training resource on data analysis, and enhance target grup’s key-competences and skills on data organization and analysis. The course’ final version will be deployed during 2 intensive training programmes (IP), organized in Romania and Malta.

Bilateral cooperation results

The partnership with NTNU Norway has allowed partners in Romania and Malta to gain significant knowledge and an increase in the capacity to understand and operate with Big Data, the expansion of the vision about Big Data, a development of the skills of the experts involved in the project, but also the increase of the educational offer by introducing into the curriculum a new course. The direct communication and collaboration and the joint research and course curricula development meant that universities in Romania and Malta had the opportunity to work directly with NTNU technological experts and create a multidisciplinary training curricula very useful for students in social sciences and security. Without it, it would have been impossible to develop an accurate understanding of the confluence between the various disciplines involved. The shared results of the project not only lead to improvement of knowledge and understanding, but also meant that the partners created an interactive training platform where course materials have been tailored for self paced learning and exercise. This platform has been made available to students and teaching staff in the partner universities, but also to interested students nationwide (via the multiplier events). At the same time, MVNIA, CPD SNSPA and University of Malta mutually benefited from the experience of the other partners and, following the project, have developed a team of experts who participated in the training program and who can multiply the results of the project. After this project, CPD SNSPA will also further apply the knowledge from the courses into a new master’s degree course (Big Data Analytics), that will start in 2023.

Project partners

Norwegian University of Science and Technology Donor project partner· Norway

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