Abstract:

In the case of students in many European countries, it was a usual evidence, that if they were not online during Covid-19, they were not able to exist. Sometimes it could happen that they were not able to exit from online space neither. The study examined the management of responsibility between public and educational institutions involved in the learning process. Who is granting rights for students online by education in cross-border municipalities? Are these responsibilities of Public Institutions or Educational organisations? Municipalities, NGOs or schools are active in the process of ICT security management or private sector should be the one who is able to compete in the ICT? There is an urgent need for an online European and cross-border concept for the urgent need of assuring online security for education which also appeared in dramatically increasing numbers during pandemic COVID-19. When in March 2020 schools became providers of online education, parents became online teachers and teachers became IT professionals. Paper conducted analytic research in the field of ICT management process and hierarchy of responsibility, which is a security and educational issue as well.  According to Safer Internet EU program every third child have already encountered some form of online bullying. In Hungary and Slovakia this number is even higher, as there was no priority devoted to the topic before. There are registered hundreds of new online crimes yearly. This problem could have been solved with strong cross-border advocacy cooperation even more effective and easier. As the educational institutions, digital competencies and IT skills are similar. Challenges towards educational security are on the both sides of border quite comparable. Paper examines the issue from the possibility of applying and using structural funds priorities from the responsibility focus. It can be an important part of the recovery package of the EU funds in response to the coronavirus crisis which paper analysis in terms of innovative ICT security management.  The analysis also addresses two basic hypothesises in the field of cross-border information communication technology security in public authorities 1) whether there is a guide in Slovakia from legal perspective about the subject of responsibility by cybercrime registered and 2) whether it is possible to find any best practices in terms of protection and case study methods of educational and state-owned and publically managed institutions. Methods of research used in paper are as follows: comparative content analysis, legislative analysis, school and municipality interviews, and best practices guide for education.