SUNRISE Physical GA Meeting: February 2023
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy
On February 21st and 22nd 2023, the SUNRISE project held its first in-person General Assembly (GA) meeting at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy
The GA meeting was hosted by project partners Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) and held over two days. It brought together representatives from the project’s 41 partner organisations as the project moves into its sixth month mark. Beginning with an address from ISS and SUNRISE project coordinators, ATOS IT Solutions and Services Iberia, this was followed by various updates and future plans following the project’s latest work completed to date including our stakeholder workshops with the project’s end-users and the SUNRISE technical tools and strategy for CI operators.
Across the two days, partners discussed, ideated and collaborated with the overall aim of achieving the project’s goal of strengthening Europe’s critical infrastructures against pandemics and other major threats. Key updates from the GA meeting included the development of the SUNRISE strategy which is in its initial stages. This strategy is also being informed by the research carried out via the project’s national and local workshops with critical infrastructure operators, the first round of which took place towards the end of last year. Now, the workshop cluster leaders are looking ahead to the second round in May 2023 which will also include an EU-level workshop. Additionally, partners discussed, in depth, the design of the various SUNRISE Tools and participated in a brainstorm session on their requirements. Finally, partners also took part in a communications and dissemination workshop so you can expect to see SUNRISE at various conferences, seminars and events over the next three years, stay updated on where to find us via our social media channels linked below, our website and newsletter.
SUNRISE is a €10M EU-funded Horizon Europe project that aims to improve the resilience of critical infrastructures affected by pandemics. The 3-year project will develop effective strategies and technologies to ensure availability, reliability, and continuity of ‘lifeline’ services in Europe, such as electricity, drinking water and healthcare. It will also improve procedures to reduce the exposure of workforce to infectious diseases and disruptions to healthcare services, and it will enhance collaboration (public-private, cross-border, and cross-sector) between critical infrastructure stakeholders to strengthen the EU’s response to pandemics and understand their cascading effects.
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