Cybersecurity Awareness Communication Challenge (CAC²)

Discover the Cybersecurity Awareness Communication Challenge (CAC²) !

Open to all academics, from high school to doctoral students and university students, this is the only competition that can bring together all levels of study and all fields of study!
The aim is to raise awareness of cybersecurity through a communication medium. Students from all disciplines can take part (engineers, graphic designers, business schools, teachers, etc.): the ideal is to bring together a wide range of skills and technologies to develop this innovative medium!

 

Theme and target audience:

For this year 2026, the theme is data security, GDPR and NIS2 regulation. Lately, there has been a lot of data breaches, from small companies to big groups, and even government institution all over Europe. National regulation agencies have also started issuing fines up to 150M€ (2B€ in Ireland for GAFAM). Your goal is to raise awareness in companies and institution so that actions are taken to ensure GDPR compliance and ensure data security.

Objective:  Create an impactful communication medium to raise awareness on data security, GDPR and NIS2 regulation for companies' management and direction.

A jury made up of cybersecurity specialists and communication/marketing experts will assess the projects on the basis of criteria such as: the innovative aspect of the project, the expected impact on the public, ease of deployment and practical implementation.

 

Eligybility 2026

Each team must provide a pdf document of no more than 4 pages containing a description of the project, the cyber security area targeted, the educational objective and the target audience. The communication material may take the form of a poster, a game, a video, a demo, etc. The format is free. The submission deadline is on October 2nd.

Students may be enrolled in different universities/schools in the Europe region (*), in different disciplines, at different levels and in different countries.
The number of participants per team is not limited for the creation and development of the communication medium.


 

Final phase :

Following the first selection, the finalists are announced on 9th October 2026. Finalists team will be invited to present the project on 13 November 2026 in Valence, France. Travel grants will be awarded to finalists to help defray travel costs.

At the end of the competition, all participants will be required to submit their work. An authorisation to re-use the material as part of our awareness-raising activities will have to be signed.
(*) European region: Armenia, the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

   

The CSAW'25 Europe CAC² winners: