GCC by CyberPeace Foundation (CPF) is a contest held to recognise and award young talent, promote digital skills and leadership and to bring out technology enabled solutions to some urgent socio-economic challenges.

The best part of all this is the registration for taking part in GCC by CyberPeace Foundation is free of cost.

The inaugural edition of GCC was organized in 2017 as a run-up event of the fifth edition of Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) 2017 which was hosted in India.

This was organized by CyberPeace Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India and Policy Perspectives Foundation.

Other supporters of GCC 1.0 included NCIIPC, MyGov, ICANN, ISOC, APNIC, UNICEF, GIZ, Palo Alto Networks, YourStory, SBI, IAMAI to name a few.

The GCC witnessed immense response with participation from more than 50 countries and more than 2000 individuals across the world.

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi graced the inaugural event and handed over the prizes to the winners.

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe and Secretary General of ITU, Mr. Houlin Zhao were also present.

The stage was also shared by the then IT and Law Minister of India Ravishankar Prasad along with other Union Ministers of India.

The second edition of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation will have three parts namely, ‘CyberPeace Policy and Strategy,’ ‘Peace-a-thon’ and ‘Capture The Flag.’

The objective of the challenge is to both present technical challenges to identify talent and to tap their innovative approach to solving critical real-world problems.

Who can take part in this contest? This challenge is open to cyber peace security experts, technologists, community leaders, civil society bodies, students, developers, UX/UI designers, business analysts, education professionals, advisors, mentors, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and investors.

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That is not all, GCC by CyberPeace Foundation is open to to those who are curious about technology.

The registration for GCC began in October this year and the last date to register for GCC by CyberPeace Foundation is 15 December.

The announcement of the shortlisted participants for Peace-a-Thon in connection with GCC by CyberPeace Foundation will be on 3 January 2021.

Elimination round in connection with Capture The Flag of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation will be conducted from 3 to 15 January 2021.

Announcement of shortlisted participants of Cyber Strategy and Capture The Flag on 15 January.

The grand finale of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation will be on 28 and 29 January 2021. The winners will be announced on 9 February.

Certificates can be downloaded from the website of GCC on 14 February 2021.

1. CyberPeace Policy and Strategy Challenge
This is a competitive scenario simulation exercise to respond to a realistic evolving international cyber crisis.

The main aim of this simulation is to understand the policy and strategy challenge associated with management of trade-offs during the cyber crisis.

The main aim of this simulation which is a part of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation is to understand the policy and strategy challenge associated with management of trade-offs during the cyber crisis.

Participants can themselves register for this contest of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation by visiting the GCC official website ‘www.cyberchallenge.net’

Those who wish to take part in this contest of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation must also provide their individual profile that that demonstrates their efficiency in the Strategy and Policy Domain.

The participants must adhere to guidelines while filling the form.

Entries will be shortlisted as per the data provided during the registration.

Top 50 shortlisted participants will be required to present their policy against the problem statement provided.

The problem statement will be shared one-hour prior with the participants.

A window of 48-hours will be provided for the final submission of the policy.

The participants are required to produce original ideas, content if found plagiarized will be disqualified.

Participants will be required to develop a working solution to the given problem statement.

The contest will be taking place in two parts namely – ideathon and finale.

Candidates can take part in this contest of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation either individually or as a team of three members.

Participants can register by visiting the official website of Global CyberPeace Challenge 2.0 ‘www.cyberchallenge.net’

A set of problem statements will be published on the website, participants will be selecting any of them as challenge to develop the solution.

Participants need to submit their idea and technology to be used at the time of registration.

Shortlisting of the participants/teams will be done on the basis of the ideas submitted.

Participants/teams must remember that one team/participant can submit only one idea.

Shortlisted participants will be called for the Grand Finale of the GCC by CyberPeace Foundation.

The grand finale of Peace-a-Thon of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation will be hosted on Zoom.

Link to join the competition will be mailed to the participants one hour prior to the start of competition.

The grand finale will be a 48-hour long event, participants are requested to be online for the whole event.

Multiple sessions will be organized for the participants during the grand finale.

3. Capture The Flag
This contest which is also a part of GCC by CyberPeace Foundation will be organised online globally.

This competition will be in two phases – Elimination Round and Finale.

Participants will be required to find the vulnerability in the CyberPeace Range created by the hosting committee.

Those who are willing to take part in this contest must register as individuals only.

Participants can register themselves by visiting the GCC official website www.cyberchallenge.net.

Participants must provide their respective profiles that demonstrates their efficiency in the cyberPeace security domain.

One entry per participant will be accepted in this contest in GCC by CyberPeace Foundation.

Participants must adhere to the guidelines when filling up the form.

Post registration participants will be given the link to elimination round.

Elimination Round will be live for three weeks and 24 IT Challenges will be created.

Primary ranking will be according to points from solved challenges.

Ties will be broken by using each teams’ average time between release of challenge to time of solution submission.

Mode will be Flag + Writeup, so teams must hand in a description of how they solved the challenge.

The Grand Finale of GCC-CTF 2.0 will be hosted on 5 and 6 December 2020.

Selected candidates for grandfinale of this contest in GCC by CyberPeace Foundation will be given the credentials of CTF one hour prior the start of competition.

A total of 12 challenges will be provided. Mode is Flag + Writeup, ties will be broken by writeup quality.

Winners of the GCC-CTF 2.0 will be announced on 10 December 2020.

Vineet Kumar, Founder and President, CyberPeace Foundation, said GCC by CyberPeace Foundation comes at a time when the whole world is in lockdowns and people have been forced to move online for most of their activities.

This has put in front of us several day to day challenges at national and international levels.

‘We hope to reach out to all non-techies and techies in this endeavour to make cyberspace truly inclusive and trustworthy.’

Once the button is pressed, applicants for GCC by CyberPeace Foundation can choose any one of the three contests being held as a part of GCC.

They must also provide other information like their team name, details of other team members and then register.

The last date for VITEEE 2025 registration was 31 March 2025 earlier, now it has been extended to 7 April 2025.

Those interested in studying graduation in engineering –  BTech in VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology) can aim for VITEEE 2025 registration which is nothing applying for the exam.

Students can regularly visit the official website for the exam with the help of URL mentioned above to obtain information and updates.

Courses and campuses

Students can take up VITEEE 2025 registration and appear for the exam and pass it with required qualifying marks to be eligible for the counselling to gain admission into engineering courses offered in VIT.

Academic programs in engineering graduation are offered across the institution’s campuses located in Vellore, Chennai, Andhra Pradesh, Bhopal and Mauritius.

VITEEE 2025 Registration Eligibility?

VITEEE 2025 registration eligibility criteria is that applicants must have completed 12 years of schooling with Physics, Chemistry, and either Mathematics, Biology, or Biotechnology as mandatory subjects.

They should have passed plus two from a recognized educational institution in science stream with subjects as maths, physics and chemistry with 55 percent pass marks at the minimum.

Those aiming for biotechnology or biology oriented engineering courses, have to pass plus two with biology/biotechnology, physics and chemistry as subjects to be eligible for VITEEE 2025 registration.

Students must ensure that they are fulfilling all the required VITEEE 2025 registration eligibility criteria before taking up VITEEE 2025 registration to avoid rejections at a later stage.

 With a limited window for applications, interested students are encouraged to register promptly and prepare for this competitive exam.

VITEEE 2025 registration process is mentioned below for the sake of the students:

1. Type the URL mentioned above in the browser and submit it to allow the website to download
2. Once the webpage is ready, candidates can know all the information about the exam.
3. After knowing about the exam, candidates can provide details like their name, age, email and other details and press Signup button to create an account.
4. After creating an account, candidates can come up to the same webpage with URL ‘https://viteee.vit.ac.in/’ and press Login button to enter and commence VITEEE 2025 registration process.

VITEEE 2025 registration Link is here

VITEEE 2025 Registration Fees

VITEEE 2025 registration fee is Rs 1350, they must pay this while applying for the exam. The application form can be submitted after paying the VITEEE 2025 registration fee.

Admit card

Candidates who have completed their VITEEE 2025 registration alone can download the admit card for appearing for the exam. The process to download the admit card is mentioned below for the sake of the students:

1. Type the URL ‘https://viteee.vit.ac.in/’ in the browser and allow the webpage to download.
2. Once the webpage is ready, candidates have to click the link for admit card.
3. Clicking the link will likely open another webpage.
4. When another webpage opens, candidates can enter their application number and other information to obtain the hall ticket.
5. Once the hall ticket is visible, candidates can download it and take a printout.

Point to remember

Candidates looking towards appearing for the exam at a test center have to download the admit card, those choosing to appear through remote proctored mode (if available) may not need to download the hall ticket, they can book the slot and appear for the test from anywhere.

Students can visit the official website to obtain information about the availability of option to take up the exam in remote proctored mode.

After VITEEE 2025 registration

Students have to appear for the exam and pass it with required qualifying marks to be eligible for participating in the counselling process.

Counselling is where the candidates can choose the course and college to study it. Selection will be done likely on the basis of performance in VITEEE, performance in qualifying exam, availability of seats, existing demand for various courses.

Those who get the seat can convey their acceptance and pay the fees and join the institution for classes.

VIT has released the VITEEE 2025 exam pattern. More details about this are available on the official website also which is mentioned above.

For quicker glance, the exam pattern for VITEEE 2025 is mentioned below.

VITEEE for B.E/B.Tech programs will have a total of 125 questions constituting 125 marks. The no. of questions is given as Mathematics/Biology-40 questions, Physics-35 questions, Chemistry-35 questions, Aptitude-10 questions and English-5 questions.

Vellore Institute of Technology will conduct VITEEE 2025 exam for 2 hours and 30 minutes duration.

All the questions shall be multiple choice type; each correct answer shall have one mark and there is no negative marking for incorrect ones. 

Candidates who are wishing to take up science oriented courses have to attempt questions related to maths, physics and chemistry.

Those keen on biology or biotechnology oriented engineering courses have to attempt questions from biology, physics and chemistry. English and Aptitude questions are compulsory along with maths/biology, physics and chemistry.

Such candidates will not get any chance to attend the counselling process. Out of the total 125 questions, the sections include mathematics/biology (40), physics (35), chemistry (35), aptitude (10), and English (5).

The paper will be in English language. The VITEEE Exam pattern for B.Tech. can be checked from the details given below: 

Exam Duration : 2 Hours and 30 Minutes

Post preparation

Candidates have to appear for VITEEE 2025 and then pass it with required qualifying marks to be eligible for the next phase of the admission process.

The phase after written exam is counselling, those who have passed the written exam with required qualifying marks can take part in the counselling where candidates get to choose the college and course they wish to study.

Counselling is usually conducted in more than one round, those who get a seat in the initial rounds can pay the fees and join the classes.

Students who don’t get a seat in the first round can try in the subsequent rounds. Selection of candidates will be done on criteria like performance in the qualifying exam, performance in the written test, availability of seats in each course, demand for each course, choice of the candidates.

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