It's one of the research and dissemination actions of the Cyber Hermes project led by the URV to promote cybersecurity

The CRISES research group of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) has led the Hermes Strategic Project in the last two years, an initiative co-financed by the National Institute of Cybersecurity (INCIBE) with European funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

The objective of the project is to consolidate high-level research in various areas of cybersecurity and transfer these results to society. The “Hermes Project” combines a scientific aspect focused on technological innovations, such as cryptography resistant to quantum attacks, the protection of privacy in decentralized artificial intelligence systems or security certification in connected device environments, with an extensive training and informative program aimed at both students, companies and citizens and productive sectors.

Based on the materials prepared for the project, on cybersecurity and the group’s lines of work have been published, and the exhibition “Cybersecurity. Challenges and opportunities for the present and future” to bring technological concepts closer to the general public. This didactic repertoire includes current challenges such as the increase of global cyberattacks, the importance of protecting personal data and advances in technologies that guarantee safer systems.

The exhibition will be itinerant and will tour the different headquarters of the CRAI of the URV. This is the planned schedule:

• CRAI Medicine and Health Sciences: from January 29 to February 10, 2026
• CRAI campus Catalunya: from 16 to 28 February:
• CRAI seu Baix Penedès: from 9 to 20 March 2026
• CRAI campus Vila-seca: from April 13 to 27, 2026
• CRAI campus Sescelades: from 4 to 18 May 2026
• CRAI campus Bellissens: from May 25 to June 8, 2026
• CRAI campus Terres de l’Ebre: from 15 to 30 June 2026
• CRAI seu Vilafranca del Penedès: from July 13 to September 25, 2026

CRISES’ leadership in the “Proyecto Hermes” reaffirms the URV as a European benchmark in cybersecurity research and education, with a scientific, social and business impact, and with a strong commitment to the transfer of knowledge in an increasingly complex and interconnected technological environment.