The second IMPROVER workshop was held as an associate event with the CRITIS conference on the 13th of October 2016 at the UIC headquarters in Paris. The theme of the workshop was meeting public expectations in times of crises and it was well attended by both project associate partners and other interested stakeholders.
Many thanks to the UIC for hosting us.
A more detailed news summary will follow, in the meantime you can find the main conclusions from the workshop in the attached file!
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Please note: this deliverable is made available here in draft format until it has been formally accepted.
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Drawing on, combining and developing the ideas of the existing literature and practices, the current report develops a holistic, easy-to-use and computable methodology to evaluate critical infrastructure resilience, called Critical Infrastructure Resilience Index (CIRI). The methodology is applicable to all types of critical infrastructure, including a possibility to tailor it to the specific needs of different sectors, facilities and hazard scenarios. The proposed methodology is especially suitable for organizational and technological resilience evaluation, but permits including also elements of societal resilience indicators to the evaluations.
The user of this methodology is supposed to be the operator of critical infrastructure, or part of it, in the spirit of self-auditing. In case it would be implemented in a wider scale, in cooperation between the operators and authorities, it would give the authorities a holistic picture about the respective society’s critical infrastructure resilience.
In this report, we draw a concise picture of the methodology and illustrate how this methodology could be applied to a specific infrastructure and hazard scenario.
Please note: this deliverable is made available here in draft format until it has been formally accepted.
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This is the report of the first workshop of the series. It outlines the planning and the minutes of the workshop, as well as the themes of discussion that emerged during this two-day event.
Please note: this deliverable is made available here in draft format until it has been formally accepted.
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At this stage, the document identifies and lists several identified definitions for each relevant to critical infrastructure concept, followed by a discussion. This helps the reader to identify similarities, common elements and differences among the listed definitions and work towards selecting a suitable definition for his/her work. For the IMPROVER project, we foresee that in upcoming versions of the document, we will be able to suggest and agree one definition for each term, which will be used by the project partners for the duration of the project and will reflect the assumptions of the proposed IMPROVER methodology.
Please note: this deliverable is made available here in draft format until it has been formally accepted.
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The report also contains detailed information on the definitions and implementation of the concepts of resilience in different continents, namely Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America and South America. Focusing on the concept of critical infrastructure resilience, it provides an overview of the existing official concepts of resilience, implementation tools, and general practices aimed at increasing organisational, societal, economic and technical resilience in different countries.
To collect all the information, the IMPROVER consortium performed an extensive literature review on the use of resilience concepts. We also held a workshop with the associate partners, and conducted a set of personal interviews with critical infrastructure operators and resilience experts around the Europe. While conducting a number of case studies in different continents, we analysed existing region and state-level documents, and reports.
Please note: this deliverable is made available here in draft format until it has been formally accepted.
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