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The project has published its second research deliverable, D2.2 – Summary of the Assessment Report on Target Groups' Educational Gaps, Learning Needs and Barriers in the S.H.I.E.L.D., capturing what students, professionals and experts in health and social care across seven European countries told us they need from cybersecurity training…
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The project has published its first research deliverable, D2.1 – Systematic Literature Review, exploring the current approaches, challenges, and emerging practices for strengthening cyber resilience within Health and Social Care (HSC) institutions…
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VOLOS, GREECE – The S.H.I.E.L.D. project consortium recently gathered in the coastal city of Volos for a productive two-day plenary meeting hosted by the University of Thessaly (UTH). From 22–23 April, partners from across Europe met to discuss the project's management and accelerate the development of our innovative cybersecurity curriculum…
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We're excited to share the first official leaflet of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Securing Health & Social Care Institutions' resilience to cybercrime through empowerment, literacy, and digital skills for students and professionals…
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On November 4-5, 2025, the S.H.I.E.L.D. project | Securing Health & social care Institutions resilience to cybercrimes through Empowerment Literacy and Digital skills of the workforce and students was officially launched in Prague, Czechia, hosted by The Czech Technical University (CVUT). This Erasmus+ initiative is dedicated to reinforcing the resilience of health & social care (HSC) institutes against cybercrimes…
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The COVID Alert Malta app, developed and supported by Seasus, recently joined the EU eHealth Network. Through this enhancement, the Maltese contact tracing app is now integrated with the single European Federated Gateway Service within which participating national backends across the EU share anonymous data regarding COVID infections. With the addition of this interoperability functionality, Malta's contact tracing app will now work abroad as well as locally after an agreement between 16 European Union countries was established…
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A new concept was created since 2017, based on the desire to implement Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE) across Europe, fostering happier and healthier people in all communities. This idea took shape and became a solid movement. SHAFE began as a Thematic Network, approved by the European Commission, to draw policy makers, organisations and citizens' attention to the need of better alignment between health, social care, built environments and ICT, both in policy and funding and delivered a Joint Statement and a Framing Paper…
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And we're live! The new COVID-19 tracking app for Malta, COVID Alert, can be downloaded from the Google Play Store for Android users and the App Store for iOS users. What is a contact tracing app? A mobile contact tracing app can track who each user has been in proximity to and can then alert all affected users when one of them confirms positive for infection. Several countries have already deployed contact tracing apps, most of which are based on the DP-3T decentralised…
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The Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-3T) is an open protocol built in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to allow the remote monitoring of infected participants. The protocol, like the competing Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) protocol, uses Bluetooth Low Energy to track and record interactions…
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MITA Notifications Platform: a bridge over troubled waters. The Notifications System was developed by Seasus with the purpose of unifying and simplifying communications for the various service providers within Government to consumers of their services, the citizen. The principal intention behind the need was to make an easy-to-use and reliable interface available to Government by which remote contact can be easily kept with citizens. Readily available communication channels such as email and SMS are used as the preferred means…
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FREE access to our platforms and expertise to any non-profit organization that wishes to establish teleworking practices. As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread around the world, it is expected to affect almost the entire global workforce. Whilst the nature of our business and our early adoption of remote working practices several years ago made it relatively easy and quick for us to switch to a fully remote structure, we understand this may not be as easy and straightforward for all. In light of the ongoing…
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As we brace for the expected increase of COVID-19 infections in Malta in the coming days, we have asked all staff to work from home until further notice. As from Thursday 12th March 2020, all staff will be going "remote first", limiting office access to strict critical requirements. We hope that this measure will help play a part in reducing the spread of the virus and lessen its potentially huge burden on the healthcare system. For several years now, the majority of Seasus' staff have teleworked on a regular basis. So…
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