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Strategies and Technologies for United and Resilient Critical Infrastructures and Vital Services in Pandemic-Stricken Europecore

SUNRISE · Horizon Europe grant · 2022-10-01–2025-09-30

EC contribution

€9,542,736

Total cost

€11,643,259

Beneficiaries

42
About the data

Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-CL3-2021-INFRA-01 · scheme HORIZON-IA · topic HORIZON-CL3-2021-INFRA-01-02. CORDIS record →

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.

Beneficiaries (42)

OrganisationCountryRoleEC contributionSME
ATOS IT SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES IBERIA SL ES coordinator €457,625
AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH AT participant €802,250
INSTITUT ZA KORPORATIVNE VARNOSTNE STUDIJE LJUBLJANA SI participant €562,000
LISER - LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESEARCH LU participant €536,119 Yes
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID ES participant €517,750
NETCOMPANY S.A. LU participant €511,875
INSTITUT FUR HOHERE STUDIEN - INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES AT participant €430,000
XLAB RAZVOJ PROGRAMSKE OPREME IN SVETOVANJE DOO SI participant €425,075 Yes
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM HEREON GMBH DE participant €395,000
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR INFEKTIONSFORSCHUNG GMBH DE participant €388,312
INSIEL - INFORMATICA PER IL SISTEMA DEGLI ENTI LOCALI S.P.A. IT participant €346,500
SQUAREDEV BE participant €295,750 Yes
CARR COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED IE participant €292,688 Yes
HERMES BAY SRL IT participant €277,900 Yes
ELES DOO OPERATER KOMBINIRANEGA PRENOSNEGA IN DISTRIBUCIJSKEGA ELEKTROENERGETSKEGA OMREZJA SI participant €258,125
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA IT participant €252,500
SKYLD SECURITY AND DEFENCE LIMITED CY participant €246,750 Yes
CONSORCIO REGIONAL DE TRANSPORTES PUBLICOS REGULARES DE MADRID ES participant €243,750
SLOVENSKE ZELEZNICE DOO SI participant €238,525
INSTITUT MIKROELEKTRONICKYCH APLIKACI SRO CZ participant €224,000
TELEKOM SLOVENIJE DD SI participant €206,325
ACOSOL SA ES participant €203,964
HYDRO DOLOMITI ENERGIA SRL IT participant €186,375
CAFC SPA IT participant €171,762
TRIESTE TRASPORTI SPA IT participant €159,250
ELEKTROENERGETSKI KOORDINACIONI CENTAR DOO RS participant €154,875
IDCQ HOSPITALES Y SANIDAD SL ES participant €116,112
UNIVERZITETNI KLINICNI CENTER LJUBLJANA SI participant €112,460
MINISTRSTVO ZA INFRASTRUKTURO SI participant €93,125
REGIONE AUTONOMA FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA IT participant €91,250
MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR ES participant €71,250
MUNICIPALITY OF JERUSALEM IL participant €55,250
PROLOG - EESTI TARNEAHELATE JUHTIMISE UHING EE participant €55,250
TELEFONICA SA ES participant €51,839
PLINOVODI, DRUZBA ZA UPRAVLJANJE S PRENOSNIM SISTEMOM, D.O.O. SI participant €41,426
GRAND PORT MARITIME DE BORDEAUX FR participant €35,250
TELEFONICA INNOVACION DIGITAL SL ES participant €34,478
ATOS SPAIN SA ES thirdParty €0
SLOVENSKE ZELEZNICE INFRASTRUKTURADRUZBA ZA UPRAVLJANJE IN VZDRZEVANJE ZELEZNISKE INFRASTRUKTURE TER VODENJE ZELEZNISKEGA PROMETA DOO SI thirdParty €0
ADDITESS ADVANCED INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS & SERVICES LTD CY participant €0 Yes
PROMETNI INSTITUT LJUBLJANA DOO SI thirdParty €0
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK UK associatedPartner

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