Research Focus: Mittweida University of Applied Sciences is a member of the European Anti-Cybercrime Initiative

It’s official: Mittweida University of Applied Sciences’ application for EACTDA membership was approved in early May 2023. Mittweida University of Applied Sciences is now a full member of the ‘European Anti-Cybercrime Technology Development Association’, or EACTDA for short (link: www.eactda.eu).

The purpose of this association is to develop technological solutions for European law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories, so that they can utilise them in their fight against crime. The 34 members of EACTDA include European law enforcement agencies, ministries of the interior, forensic institutes – in particular European experts in public security – as well as relevant organisations from the fields of research and industry. With this move, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences once again underlines its outstanding role nationwide and its place within the international network in the fight against cybercrime. Professor Dirk Pawlaszczyk will officially represent Mittweida University of Applied Sciences within the EACTDA and contribute to this European expert group on cyber security.
Research and teaching on cyber security at the university will benefit from EACTDA membership. For the CB Faculty, EACTDA membership opens up the opportunity to have the further development of its own software prototypes – which are of interest to law enforcement agencies – supported from the ‘tools4LEAs’ project (Link: https://www.eactda.eu/projects/Tools4LEAs) to market readiness. The contact person for EACTDA at HSMW is Prof. Dr Dirk Pawlaszczyk (Link https://www.cb.hs-mittweida.de/professoren-innen/forensik/prof-pawlaszczyk/).

Text: Prof. Dr Dirk Pawlaszczyk