Czech-UNDP Partnership supports two different modalities. Apart from Challenge Fund, Partnership supports a second modality – Expertise on Demand (EoD). The main objective of expertise is the transfer of Czech experience and specific know-how in the target countries of the Czech-UNDP Partnership and create opportunities for sharing Czech expertise and strengthening expert capacities within the global UN system. Expertise includes technological assistance, expert consulting, preparation of feasibility studies and other.  The usual budget for EoD initiatives is between US$ 10,000 and US$ 40,000.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, two Czech consultants – Václav Stupka and Jan Hajný were selected through Czech-UNDP Partnership to develop curriculum for cybersecurity master’s programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Václav Stupka, a cybersecurity professional and researcher at Masaryk University, played a central role in shaping the legal and organizational courses content of the cybersecurity training program. Drawing on his extensive background in cybersecurity and cybercrime law, policy and compliance, Václav focused on embedding real-world, hands-on learning throughout the curriculum focusing on processes, legal issues and policy aspects of cybersecurity. His contributions were especially impactful in aligning the program with key EU and international legal and standardization frameworks, ensuring relevance and rigor across all levels of cybersecurity practices. 

Jan Hajný, a professor of Information Security at Brno University of Technology, Czechia, was responsible for the development of technical courses. His experience in building complete cybersecurity curricula and contribution to ENISA ECSF (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity European Cybersecurity Skills Framework) was used to design courses that contain large portions of hands-on training, dealing mostly with system security, network security, vulnerability assessment, and threat management. Jan also contributed with his knowledge of software tools that are tailored for building new study programs, particularly the Curricula Designer software. The use of such software allowed the creators to align the new program with international cybersecurity skills frameworks, such as NIST NICE and ENISA ECSF. Jan summarizes the collaboration as a “unique mixture of freedom received for course design on one side and deep knowledge and expertise of Bosnia and Herzegovina experts that helped to shape the overall program on the other side”.

On the side of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the whole process was supervised by Saša Mrdovic,  professor at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo. He leads the process of establishing a new master program in information security. The UNDP project support means a lot for this program. The contribution from professors Stupka and Hajny was substantial and will significantly contribute to the quality of the program. In addition the connections that were established will continue and hopefully will result in further cooperation between faculties.

Through the Challenge Fund and Expertise on Demand, the Czech-UNDP Partnership for SDGs brings innovative solutions from the Czech Republic’s private sector, NGOs, universities, state institutions, research centres and individuals to tackle specific developmental challenges in the priority countries. The implementation of projects and expertise is financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.