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Scandria Alliance Talks: TRANSCEND’s contribution to enhance EU critical infrastructure resilience

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On 12 December 2025, Jocelyn Aubert from the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) participated as speaker in the Scandria Alliance Talk webinar “Enhancing security of supply and resilience for maritime and rail transport“.

The webinar included insightful presentations about the critical geopolitical situation in which Europe is living today, with a particular focus on the transport and logistics criticalities in the Northen and Eastern Baltic Sea regions:

  • Ulla Tapaninen, Professor and Head of Maritime Transport Research Group, Tallinn University of Technology, presented recent challenges in Finland’s foreign trade through maritime transport, emphasizing how unexpected events like COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine brings Finland to reflect on its own transport and logistics security.
  • Kaisa Kuukasjärvi, Senior Ministerial Advisor, Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications, focused its presentation on the current challenges of the Finnish transport system, which considers updating to the European standard gauge to better unifying connection with northen bordering countries of Norway and Sweden.
  • Jocelyn Aubert from LIST, presented the Control Tower being developed within the TRANSCEND project as an innovative solution to enhance resilience of critical infrastructure in Europe against cyber and non-cyber threats.

Many thanks to Scandria Alliance for inviting us to this insightful discussion!

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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).