Synergies

VIGIMARE (Vigilant Maritime Surveillance of Critical Submarine Infrastructure) is a three-year Horizon Europe (GA 101168016) funded project that will provide an information sharing environment to the Critical Infrastructure Operators (CIO) to protect submarine telecommunication cables, power cables and gas pipelines from physical, cyber and hybrid threats.

Objectives:
  • Provide information sharing environment to the CIOs against threats to the EU submarine Critical Infrastructure (CI).
  • Increase the resilience of CIOs against physical, cyber and hybrid threats by implementing risk preventing and risk reducing measures.
  • Strengthen the situational awareness of European maritime areas, both offshore and onshore, to recognize physical, cyber and hybrid attacks and incidents (both man-made and natural) for both CIOs and the member states, enabling better planning of the response and repairs.
  • Support the EU member states to fulfil CER and NIS-2 directives’ requirements.

ReMuNet is dedicated to identifying and addressing disruptive events that impact multimodal transport corridors, enabling swift and seamless real-time responses. By supporting Transport Management System (TMS) providers, ReMuNet enhances route planning resilience and delivers alternative, pre-defined multimodal transport routes to logistics operators. These routes are then relayed to truck drivers, locomotive operators, and barge captains, facilitating a faster and more adaptive network response.

The project focuses on optimising capacity allocation, suggesting transshipment points, and orchestrating route utilisation to minimise disruption impacts and reduce recovery times. As a pioneer for the Physical Internet, ReMuNet’s ultimate aim is to promote synchro-modal relay transport across European rail, road, and inland waterways. This approach increases network resilience, significantly reduces emissions, and improves the efficiency of freight transport corridors during disruptive events.

HS4U is an innovative 3-year project involving a multidisciplinary consortium of 22 partners from 8 different countries. Its objective is to develop and demonstrate holistic ship design solutions aiming to facilitate early detection, prevention, and mitigation of health crises and disease outbreaks in large passenger and cruise ships. The project has received funding under the Horizon Europe call “Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01)”.

Ship D-NAVIO

D-NAVIO is a 3-year project involving a multidisciplinary consortium of 16 partners frοm 7 Countries across Europe. D-NAVIO aims to redefine how ships are designed, monitored, and maintained by bringing together cutting-edge AI, maritime engineering, and digital-twin innovation. The vision of the D-NAVIO project is to revolutionise risk assessment and resilience in complex vessels through a Digital Twin-based approach. D-NAVIO combines explainable AI and self-healing technologies to forecast and prevent failures, including a digital twin library, a ‘memory of failures’ system, and advanced risk assessment models that will be tested on both a cruise ship and a container vessel.

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).