<< Objectives >>The objectives of MECyS are to provide based on curricular developments training courses, training tools and materials as well as teacher trainings for cybersecurity and data privacy for IT-lay persons in working contexts of smaller companies and organisations. Thus the overall objective is the upskilling of non-IT-staff confronted with increasing requirements of digitalisation.<< Implementation >>Main activities will be:- the systematic analysis of the opical, educational and technological success conditions of the project- the development of learning tools and materials for cybersecurity and data privacy in the working context of smaller businesses and organisations- prototypical conduct and systematic evaluation of the course concept aligned with the tools and materials in the partner languages- conduct of courses and other exploitation activities- varied disemination activities.<< Results >>Main results will be:- reports on the topical, educational and technological backgrounds of the project- course outlines aligned with training tools and materials in different languages- the provision of such courses to a high number of learners- a framework for dissemination and further exploitation of the mentioned results.