"Protection through Education: Digital Security" — national cybersecurity-awareness campaign reaches 15,928 users
Ascendia led a national public-interest e-learning campaign on online safety for students, teachers, and parents across Romania. Edition I (Oct–Dec 2023) closed with 15,928 registered users across two audience curricula. Material aligned to NIS2, GDPR awareness, and AI Act Article 4 literacy obligations. Disclosed as a BVB current report on 26 January 2024.
Edited by Dragos Vasilica — Director of Business Development · Public-sector desk · dragos.vasilica@ascendia.eu
In autumn 2023, Ascendia led "Protection through Education: Digital Security" — a free national e-learning campaign on online safety for students, teachers, and parents across Romania. The programme was authored in LIVRESQ, delivered via CoffeeLMS, and operated under a four-partner consortium with the Romanian Police (Poliția Română), the National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC), and the Romanian Banks Association (ARB). Its outcomes were filed as a BVB current report on 26 January 2024.
Edition I ran from 31 October to 15 December 2023 and closed with 15,928 registered users: 9,216 pupils, 5,430 teachers, and 1,282 parents. Edition II ran from 14 March to 14 June 2024, extending the programme into a second academic cycle.
The student curriculum covered: safe money management on the internet, internet addiction and wellbeing, child protection from online exploitation, and personal-data management online. The teacher, parent, and educator curriculum covered general cybersecurity awareness and digital safety for children. All modules were delivered free of charge. Material was aligned to NIS2 cybersecurity-training requirements, AI Act Article 4 literacy obligations, and GDPR awareness.
The consortium operated across four institutional lanes. Ascendia led content production and CoffeeLMS platform delivery. The Romanian Police provided child-protection authority and law-enforcement framing for the child-exploitation and online-safety modules. The National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC) contributed national policy alignment and cybersecurity-framework authority. The Romanian Banks Association (ARB) contributed financial-safety content covering online fraud, phishing, and secure digital-payment practices.
The programme's outcomes were disclosed as a BVB current report on 26 January 2024. For procurement evaluators, the 15,928-user reach figure is a public-record data point submitted under capital-markets governance obligations to the Bucharest Stock Exchange — not an internally-sourced marketing metric.
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