Project description
Ensuring continuity of pandemic-specific services during a pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic, critical infrastructures (CIs) across Europe were put to an unprecedented test. The importance of resilient CIs and their collaboration is paramount in such situations. With this in mind, the EU-funded SUNRISE project will promote collaboration of Cis, allowing them to share best practice and join forces to tackle future pandemics. Working with a group of CI authorities, operators and stakeholders as well as experts in relevant disciplines and security researchers, the project will identify pandemic-specific vital services and CIs. It will also define their dependencies, risks and cascading effects. SUNRISE will develop strategies and tools to ensure the availability, reliability, security and continuity of pandemic-specific vital services.
Objective
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of the continuity of vital services, has shown the need to work together for the common good. It has proven that a pandemic is not only a health crisis and that it does not only disrupt Critical Infrastructures (CIs), but that there is an extremely important link between the resilience of CIs and our societies. The economic crisis caused by the pandemic also provides a unique opportunity to jointly ‘build back better’ with the focus on sustainability and green recovery.
SUNRISE will facilitate active collaboration of CIs across Europe to share best practices and jointly tackle future pandemics. By Q3/2025, this collaboration will result in a new stable working group for resilience to pandemics with at least 100 members.
With a group of 4 CI authorities, 16 CI operators, 3 other CI stakeholders, 4 experts in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2 experts in epidemiology and climate extremes, and 12 security researchers and SW developers, we will: (1) Identify pandemic-specific vital services and CIs, their dependencies, risks, cascading effects, and effective measures to tackle them at European level. (2) Develop a comprehensive strategy (TRL8) and four innovative tools (TRL7) ensuring greater availability, reliability, security, robustness, trustworthiness, cost-effectiveness, climate-friendliness, and continuity of pandemic-specific vital services in Europe: Tools for risk-based access control, resource demand prediction and management, cyber-physical resilience, and remote infrastructure inspection. (3) Pilot the results in operational environments of the CIs while tackling some of their biggest pain points exposed by the current pandemic. (4) Promote our approach across Europe to ensure a united front and resilience of CIs to pandemics.
We will carefully consider legal, ethical, societal, economic, and climate aspects, ensuring that our results address not only the needs of the CIs, but also those of our society.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securityaccess control
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusescoronaviruses
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
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28037 Madrid
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1253 Luxembourg
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1000 Ljubljana
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28040 Madrid
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34133 Trieste
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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150 00 PRAHA 5
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2064 Lefkosia
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1210 Wien
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00143 Rome
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1000 Ljubljana
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38124 Braunschweig
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21502 Geesthacht
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4366 Esch Sur Alzette
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1080 Wien
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A96 PR60 Dublin
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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1000 Ljubljana
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28071 Madrid
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28010 Madrid
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28010 Madrid
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28050 MADRID
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28003 Madrid
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29600 Marbella
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34121 Trieste
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00161 Roma
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38122 Trento
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34144 Trieste
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33100 Udine
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11040 Beograd
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94141 Jerusalem
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33082 Bordeaux
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11621 Tallinn
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2404 Nicosia
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28013 Madrid
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CV4 8UW COVENTRY
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