Welcome to issue four of the SUNRISE LinkedIn newsletter series.
SUNRISE is an EU-funded Horizon Europe project that aims to ensure greater resilience of critical infrastructures in Europe such as water, transport and health.
In our newsletter, you’ll find an overview of the latest news, events, and developments from the SUNRISE project partners as well as general discussion from the critical infrastructure sector.
This edition will look at the project’s latest physical general assembly in Ljubljana, updates from the Slovenian pilots and some upcoming events and workshops SUNRISE is involved in.
If you have any questions relating to the project please get in contact: sunriseeuropeproject@gmail.com
SUNRISE Physical General Assembly – Ljubljana
On February 14 and 15, 2024, the SUNRISE project held its in-person General Assembly meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, hosted by ICS Ljubljana.
The meeting focused on various updates and future plans, building on the project’s latest completed work. This included discussions on stakeholder workshops with the project’s end-users, SUNRISE technical tools, and the strategy for critical infrastructure (CI) operators.
Key updates from the GA meeting included the development of the SUNRISE strategy, informed by research from national and local workshops with critical infrastructure operators.
The workshop cluster leaders from Spain, Italy, and Slovenia looked ahead to the next round of national workshops scheduled for May 2024, along with an EU-level online workshop in June 2024. Partners also delved into the design of various SUNRISE tools, participating in a brainstorm session on their requirements and the implementation of the pilots.
Discussions also covered communication and dissemination topics, outlining plans for further promotion at conferences, seminars, and events, as well as through social media channels, the website, and newsletters.
Slovenian Pilots
Following the General Assembly meeting the project’s dissemination and communications partners Carr Communications, worked with the Slovenian partners ELES, Slovenian Railways and the University Medical Centre Ljubljana to explore their experience of the SUNRISE Project so far and the importance and impact of the tools they are piloting.
You can see interviews with Jakob Klofutar of Slovenian Railways, Matjaž Tavčar of the University Medical Centre Ljubljana and Gorazd Ažman of ELES below.
Events
In the coming months, the SUNRISE Project will be participating in a number of events including;
- Port of Bordeaux will be involved in a roundtable discussion disseminating information about the project at the WISG (Workshop Interdisciplinaire sur la Sécurité Globale) on March 14th and 15th.
- A panelist from the project will participate in the CERIS workshop on ‘Innovating Smart Cities Resilience through Research and Best Practices’ in Brussels, Belgium on April 11th
- ICS will be hosting The 15th International Conference “Days of Corporate Security in which they will present the SUNRISE Project on May 13th and 14th.
- AIT are organising a workshop with other project partners at the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024) in Vienna from July 30th – August 2nd.
- ATS, UPM, AIT and INT are organising the RCIS Thematic Track, together with the EU-CIP project at the RCIS | FedCSIS 2024 conference in Belgrade, Serbia from September 8th – 11th.
As mentioned previously, the next round of SUNRISE National Workshops for CI operators in Spain, Italy and Slovenia will be taking place in May while the EU-level cross-border collaboration workshop will be online on June 6th.
More information on both the national and EU level workshops will be available online in the coming weeks.
Thank you for reading and we look forward to keeping you up-to-date about SUNRISE and CI resilience in future editions.
– Team SUNRISE
