A Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats

The EU-HYBNET is a Pan-European network of security practitioners, stakeholders, academics, industry players, and SME actors across EU collaborating with each other in ever increasing numbers to counter hybrid threats.

The world as we know it is experiencing change and evolution at a rapid pace in every area of life. A technological revolution gives rise to massive shifts in global politics, economics, the media landscape, and the ways in which we all live, work, communicate, connect with and trust one another, locally and globally. The very nature of war, committing acts of aggression, and sewing seeds of discontent have evolved. Hybrid threats are a product of these changes and are part of our modern world, EU-HYBNET/(Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats) is a project that works towards protecting the EU against them.

To enhance the EU’s resilience to hybrid threats, an ever-growing state-of-the-art network has been established. The project is the 1^st EU initiative which brings together pan-European practitioners and stakeholders to identify and analyse common challenges, and requirements to counter hybrid threats. It conducts research, highlights innovation initiatives, arranges training events to test innovations and makes recommendations for the uptake, industrialisation and standardisation of these innovations. These results are shared with EU practitioners and EC policymakers which positively influences the public procurement process.

EU-HYBNET is a five year project funded by the European Commission (No. 883054).