3043/2025/WEB 'Unmasking hybrid threats: strategies for awareness and resilience within the border dimension'

This webinar aims to enhance law enforcement professionals' understanding of hybrid threats, their evolving nature, and strategies for identifying, mitigating, and responding to these multidimensional challenges, which blend conventional and unconventional tactics within the border dimension.

By the end of this webinar, the audience will be able to:

• Discuss the concept of hybrid threats from a border perspective, identify their components, and explain how they have impacted or may impact the EU’s border dimension.
• Discuss opportunities and limitations for border authorities in countering hybrid threats.
• Summarise the main threats and challenges from both state and non-state actors who use hybrid activities to target the external borders of the EU.
• Detect early signs of hybrid threats and assess vulnerabilities within the border dimension;
• Promote information exchange and cooperation between law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and other key stakeholders in countering hybrid threats;
• Discuss challenges, lessons learned and best practices from case studies of hybrid threats. 

This webinar is implemented by the CEPOL Knowledge Centre on Counter-terrorism.