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Seeking security practitioners for an EU-funded call on infrastructure resilience and crisis management

Summary

Closed for EoI
Profile Type
  • Research & Development Request
POD Reference
RDRFR20250912002
Term of Validity
12 September 2025 - 12 September 2026
Company's Country
  • France
Type of partnership
  • Research and development cooperation agreement
Targeted Countries
  • All countries
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General information

Short Summary
Coordinator: French SME, crisis platforms and decision support. Objective: co-develop capabilities to detect cascading risks early, analyze faster, and coordinate cross-border; fuse ops with data; test interdependencies. Partners: EU/assoc. CI ops (energy, water, health, transport, telecom), regulators/cyber agencies/city resilience, civil protection, law enforcement/private CI security. Role: co-define needs, join pilots, provide scenarios/data/feedback, support uptake.
Full Description
Overview and why Modern utilities (energy, water, transport, telecoms) are tightly connected. A disturbance in one can cascade into others and across borders. Data is fragmented, and coordination is hard under time pressure. Our project will research and develop practical, standards-based capabilities that: - builds a shared, cross-sector operational picture from selected operational data and open geospatial sources, - runs tests to anticipate knock-on effects, and - offers explainable decision support and alerting for multi-agency/multi-jurisdiction response. With whom A core consortium of industrial and academic partners from France, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, and Greece (crisis platforms, Earth observation, AI/analytics, risk modelling, exercises and human factors). We are now adding security practitioners to co-design, test and validate. Programme framework Horizon Europe, Cluster 3 (Civil Security for Society), topic HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-INFRA-01 (Innovation Action). Proposal submission planned November 2025; project start expected mid-2026, subject to EU evaluation. Timescale: Planned 36 months. Type and role of partners sought - CI operators: operational processes, incident handling, safe data provision (non-sensitive or synthetic where needed), site access for table-tops/drills, evaluation of decision-support outputs. - Resilience authorities: risk and regulatory context, inter-agency procedures, data-sharing constraints, validation of cross-border workflows. - Civil protection: exercise planning, evacuation/protected-route logistics, public messaging, after-action reviews. - Law enforcement / private security: traffic control, convoy escort, public order, cyber incident cooperation, misinformation counter-measures, and communications. - All partners help shape scenarios, define KPIs, test prototypes, and contribute to lessons learned and uptake plans.
Advantages and Innovations
1. EU- based capabilities 2. Federated, privacy-preserving set-up 3. Stress testing of interdependencies 4. Explainable decision support 5. Standards-first interoperability 6. Practitioner-led validation
Technical Specification or Expertise Sought
- EU or associated country organisation; ability to sign an NDA and a Horizon Europe Grant Agreement if selected - Potential actor of complex crisis scenarios - Appoint a single point of contact and a small core team (operational lead + technical contact) - Willingness to take part in requirements workshops, table-top exercises, pilot activities, and structured evaluations (surveys/interviews) - Ability to share non-sensitive operational data, de-identified samples, or synthetic data; alternatively to provide expert ground truth and process descriptions if real data cannot be shared - Readiness to contribute to dissemination and exploitation (non-confidential case stories, policy inputs, standardisation feedback)
Stage of Development
  • Under development
Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
  • Goal 13: Climate Action
  • Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
IPR status
  • Secret know-how

Partner Sought

Expected Role of a Partner
Co-define needs, join pilots, provide scenarios/data/feedback, support uptake
Type and Size of Partner
  • SME <=10
  • SME 11-49
  • Other
  • Big company
  • SME 50 - 249
Type of partnership
  • Research and development cooperation agreement

Call details

Framework program
  • Horizon Europe
Call title and identifier
HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-INFRA-01 "Open topic for improved preparedness for, response to and recovery from large-scale disruptions of critical infrastructures“
Anticipated project budget
5000000
Coordinator required
No
Deadline for EoI
Deadline of the call
Project duration in weeks
156
Web link to the call
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-INFRA-01

Dissemination

Market keywords
  • 01004002 - Data communication components
  • 06007001 - Other energy production
  • 08005 - Other Industrial Products (not elsewhere classified)
Sector Groups Involved
  • Energy-Intensive Industries
  • Renewable Energy
  • Aerospace and Defence
  • Mobility - Transport - Automotive
  • Agri-Food
  • Maritime Industries and Services
  • Health
Targeted countries
  • Afghanistan
  • Aland Islands
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • American Samoa
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Antarctica
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Aruba
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bermuda
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Bouvet Island
  • Brazil
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cabo Verde
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China
  • Christmas Island
  • Cocos Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Curacao
  • Cyprus
  • Czechia
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini
  • Ethiopia
  • Falkland Islands
  • Faroe Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • French Guiana
  • French Southern Territories
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Greece
  • Greenland
  • Grenada
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guam
  • Guatemala
  • Guernsey
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macao
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Martinique
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mayotte
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Moldova
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • Netherlands Antilles
  • New Caledonia
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Niue
  • Norfolk Island
  • North Korea
  • North Macedonia
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Palestinian Territory
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Pitcairn
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Reunion
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Barthelemy
  • Saint Helena
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Martin
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Samoa
  • San Marino
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Sint Maarten
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Timor Leste
  • Togo
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Tuvalu
  • U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • United States Minor Outlying Islands
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vatican
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Western Sahara
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe