The graduates also attended a series of graduation workshops on 7 December, led by members of UCD academia, representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, cybercrime investigators from the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau, An Garda Siochana, as well as industry practitioners.
Participation in this Master’s Programme was funded by the CyberEast and iPROCEEDS-2 joint projects of the Council of Europe and the European Union from 2020 to 2022. Law enforcement and criminal justice officers from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine made use of this opportunity. The studies were conducted in an online format, due to the COVID pandemic.
The aim of this initiative was to provide high quality cybercrime investigation training and cutting-edge computer forensic skills to criminal justice professionals, who will, in turn, share these investigation techniques and strategies with their peers in the countries of the Eastern Partnership, Southeast Europe and Türkiye.
On behalf of the CyberEast Project, we would like to highlight the achievements of the cybercrime investigators from Ukraine who, in spite of the ongoing Russian aggressions against their country, including relentless cyberattacks, successfully completed their studies and are now better equipped to address current cybersecurity challenges.
Launching of the Master's Programme in Cybercrime Investigation and Computer Forensics, 2020
University College of Dublin MSc in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation