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The TRANSCEND project has officially kicked off in Bologna, Italy

The TRANSCEND project has officially kicked off! On 2nd and 3rd October 2024, the kick-off meeting of the TRANSCEND project took place in Bologna, Italy.

The TRANSCEND project has officially kicked off! On 2nd and 3rd October 2024, the kick-off meeting of the TRANSCEND project took place in Bologna, Italy, where the Consortium met for the first time in person for an inspiring kick-off meeting, to develop a common vision, to deepen the project’s objectives and to determine the next important steps.

TRANSCEND (Transport Resilience against Cyber and Non-Cyber Events to prevent Network Disruption) is a project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme, aims to improve the protection and resilience of critical freight transport infrastructure networks across Europe against physical, cyber and hybrid threats, enabling seamless and secure transport operations through a control tower interconnected digital. The project consortium gathers 21 partners from 6 different European countries, is led by LIST – Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.

In today’s increasingly unstable and uncertain global and geopolitical environment, the Supply Chain is becoming complex and global. Freight Transport is a highly vulnerable sector, which is increasingly dependent on digital systems. These are the challenges that the TRANSCEND project aims to address.

Using an embedded business intelligence approach, the TRANSCEND project will contribute significantly to the resilience of freight transport by improving its transparency, minimizing risk and exposure to shocks, and building the capacity to withstand, absorb and recover from disruptive incidents.

During the kick-off meeting, the representatives of the project Consortium had the opportunity to participate to a study visit at the Interporto Bologna SpA and GRUBER Logistics’ warehouse, both partners in the project involved in the Italian pilot together with DBA Progetti and ITL (Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation). ITL hosted this first meeting that laid the foundations for a brilliant collaboration that aims, over the next 36 months, to revolutionize the resilience of critical infrastructures in Europe.

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Rationale

Ensuring the resilience of Critical Infrastructures (CIs), particularly in the transport sector, has become increasingly vital. Today, there is a strong emphasis on securing information systems and effectively managing risks that could disrupt these essential services. Moreover, CIs are becoming progressively more interdependent across sectors; for example, energy is essential for telecommunications, which in turn supports logistics and transport operations. This growing interconnectedness increases systemic complexity and makes CIs more vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-physical attacks. As a result, understanding and modelling dependencies both across different sectors and domains, and within operators of the same CI, is not only required by regulations, but also crucial for improving preparedness, risk management, and coordinated incident response.

Objective

 The primary objective of the ecosystem modelling module is to analyse an ecosystem surrounding a CI as a whole and to provide the foundations for simulating potential impacts on the resilience of a supply chain composed of multiple entities (both internal and external to the CI) by propagating risk consequences across dependencies (domino effect).