Building Europe’s Internet Resilience for a Connected Futurecore
RESILIOUS · Horizon Europe grant · 2027-01-01–2030-12-31
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About the data
Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-MSCA-2025-DN-01 · scheme HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN · topic HORIZON-MSCA-2025-DN-01-01. CORDIS record →
Objective
Europe’s digital sovereignty depends on communication infrastructures that remain secure, resilient, and interoperable across land, sea, and space. Today, these systems face escalating risks: fragile submarine cables, concentrated Internet interconnection markets, limited satellite access, and cyber-physical threats that move across domains. RESILIOUS addresses these challenges by establishing a pan-European Doctoral Network to develop resilient-by-design architectures, detection methods across all domains, recovery techniques, and evidence-based governance frameworks.The network brings together leading academic and industrial partners to advance four research pillars: (1) new metrics and architectures; (2) multi-layer anomaly detection; (3) autonomous recovery via reinforcement-learning routing, passive localisation, and degraded-mode communication for terrestrial and maritime systems; and (4) certification, standardisation, and regulatory tools supporting EU-wide resilience and strategic autonomy.Fifteen Doctoral Candidates will receive interdisciplinary training spanning satellite and terrestrial networking, underwater sensing, security, Internet governance, and techno-economics. Through secondments with operators, vendors, and international organisations, they will gain hands-on experience with real infrastructures and standardisation processes.RESILIOUS will deliver validated resilience metrics, interoperable designs, cross-domain detection and recovery demonstrators, and policy instruments aligned with EU directives. The project builds the scientific foundations and skilled workforce required to ensure robust, sovereign, and future-proof connectivity for Europe.
Beneficiaries (17)
| Organisation | Country | Role | EC contribution | SME |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT | NL | coordinator | €610,572 | |
| QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | UK | participant | €1,046,214 | |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN | AT | participant | €605,086 | |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT | DE | participant | €580,545 | |
| UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO | IT | participant | €563,510 | |
| NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS GMBH AND CO KG | DE | participant | €290,272 | |
| DE-CIX Management GmbH | DE | participant | €290,272 | |
| QASCOM SRL | IT | participant | €281,755 | Yes |
| Centar izvrsnosti MARBLE drustvo s ogranicenom odgovornoscu za istrazivanje i razvoj | HR | participant | €259,812 | |
| World Wide Web Consortium Inc | US | associatedPartner | — | |
| VodafoneZiggo Group BV | NL | associatedPartner | — | |
| Pometry LTD | UK | associatedPartner | — | |
| MARINTRAFIK OPEREISONS MONOPROSOPI ANONYMI ETAIREIA PLIROFORIKIS | EL | associatedPartner | — | Yes |
| TELEFONICA INNOVACION DIGITAL SL | ES | associatedPartner | — | |
| AIR-RMLD | HR | associatedPartner | — | Yes |
| LASTING SOFTWARE SRL | RO | associatedPartner | — | Yes |
| Internet Society Belgium vzw | BE | associatedPartner | — |
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