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TRANSCEND project presented at the CIPRE Conference

Brindisi, Italy, 14th-16th October. TRANSCEND project was presented at the Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience Europe 2025 Conference. Both OPEN ENLoCC and Valenciaport Foundation represented the project during this three-day event.

Organised under the theme “Resilience through Innovation & Collaboration,” the programme featured more than 50 international expert speakers focus on hot topic discussions, with live technical demonstrations, an industry exhibition, and policy roundtables focusing on the implementation of the EU Directives on Critical Entities Resilience (CER) and NIS2, cyber-physical risk management, maritime and energy resilience, supply-chain security, and climate adaptation for infrastructure.

The event has been a high-level conference with leading industry speakers and professionals representing leading stakeholders from industry, operators, agencies, and governments to collaborate on securing Europe.  

On the second day of the event, Raphael Company, Director of Safety and Security at Valenciaport Foundation, presented the TRANSCEND project within the panel session “Maritime & Port Sector Symposium”, emphasising the role played by the Port of Valencia as one of the key pilot actions in the project. 

On the same day, European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures (ECSCI Cluster), an EU-level project cluster where TRANSCEND is member, held a hybrid workshop on the current status on the NIS2 EU Directive implementation in Member States, with contributing from non-EU stakeholders as well. 

A great thanks to the organizers of the event for setting up such interesting conference, which allowed such a stimulating exchange of knowledge and opinions which foster constructive debates on critical infrastructure protection. 

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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).