The mission of the MCEC is to develop and disseminate knowledge and awareness on Cyber Security, creating the conditions for improving capabilities, skills, cooperation and communication between the different stakeholders involved in the use and protection of internet.

In order that this purpose can be achieved, the MCEC intends to bring together the highest level of organisational and technical resources for the purposes of, for example:

MCEC Objectives:

• education, training, qualification and professional development, with a particular focus on students and graduates from Montenegro, on senior managers, officials and technicians in public administration, in critical infrastructure and in operators in the private sector and on officials and operating units in the police force;
• raising awareness among Montenegrin nation aimed on organising events, preparing and distributing materials and brochures with topics about cyber security issues;
• promoting and establishing educational partnerships with organisations and bodies operating in the field of Cyber Security on a national, EU and international level;
• promoting, organising and supporting work groups and interest groups on a national level made up of various types of organisations and bodies (governments, the private sector, the academic world, the research world, industry and the media) in order to pool skills and know-how and for the purposes of ‘Information Sharing’ where Cyber Security is concerned;
• setting up open educational platform aimed on centralising and distributing learning materials in the field of Cyber Security with different levels of expertise and multidisciplinary approaches; ·
• organising specialised trainings for professionals in different fields of cyber security by inviting leading experts at national, international and global levels; ·
• monitoring Cyber Security in Montenegro and in other countries, including the monitoring of security events, the analysis of threats, the correlation and analysis of information collected by the Founder, the Associate Founders, the Participant Members and the partner organisations;
• organising and/or supporting events and any other work furthering the purpose of the MCEC and raising awareness of the results of the MCEC’s work.

MCEC Distance Learning System:

• Create and establish educational programs for different categories of users and citizens in Montenegro ·
• Create and establish Moodle platform titled MCEC Distance Learning System structured in accordance with created educational programs ·
• Create educational materials by (i) selecting the most appropriate open access materials, (ii) cooperating with partner institutions at international and global levels (e.g. Global Cyber Security Centre from Italy – ECESM partner institutions, etc.) on allowing to use and distribute materials created by themselves, and (iii) use IMTM and national resources to create additional materials ·
• Promote established Moodle platform and enable open access to created learning materials (in respect to rules for using materials shared by third parties – see previous bullet) for broader public and citizens ·
• Promote established Moodle platform among businesses and other institutions at national level, aimed on establishing sustainable cooperation with MCEC for education and training in Cyber security.