The Pan-European meeting with CIS stakeholders of the SUNRISE was successfully implemented.
The workshop took place online, organized by the Institute for Corporate Security Studies – ICS Ljubljana. It was organized, led and moderated by ICS with the support of ATS, INS, UPM, HB and XLB as SUNRISE partners. 44 participants from 13 countries were present at the workshop.
After the welcoming address by ICS and SUNRISE Project introduction by the project coordinator there were presentations of the first Slovenian national workshop with critical infrastructure stakeholders by ICS followed by UPM and INS presenting their first national workshop results in Spain and Italy respectively.
Then the plenary session was divided into four virtual sessions and discussions were moderated by ICS, UPM and INS (supported by XLB, ATS, HB): The information, experience and good practices gathered within the first round of national workshops with Critical Infrastructures was analysed and discussed.
After the introduction of the participants, the purpose was to facilitate discussions aimed at supporting cooperation on a cross-border level to exchange best practices, discuss common issues, and find means to support each other in crises.
Five topics were discussed and participants shared their views of EU CIs Collaboration and Interdependencies. These topics included;
- Business continuity management,
- Human resources,
- Information and communication technologies,
- Collaboration with other actors, and
- Communication with stakeholders,
After the completion of the virtual round tables session, the moderators of ICS, UPM and INS collected the key takeaways and presented them and finally there was a reflection and conclusion session ending this productive Pan-European meeting with CIS stakeholders.
The outcome of the discussions will be intended to understand what is already in the operational environment on cross-border level cooperation, what is still missing, and how we can reduce the knowledge gap. Inputs gathered will support the discussions, analysis, and research of the EU project SUNRISE in the national and international environment.
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