RACI

The project group (PG) has started in 2022 and focuses on resilience applications in
critical infrastructures, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration and application of
proven methods from one infrastructure domain (e.g. energy, transportation, etc.) to
other infrastructures, including also the issue of NaTech scenarios linking natural
hazards and technological accidents. The PG partners focus on the specific
infrastructure domain they are working on and promote methodological exchange of
successful methods or approaches. The aim of the PG is to develop and propose an
integrated approach for quantitative resilience assessment, including management
decisions (comparison of solutions for investment, maintenance) in a context of
uncertain scenarios (global change and emerging threats, NaTech scenarios).

The PG continues the work done in the previous ESReDA project group “Resilience
Engineering and Modelling of Networked Infrastructure”, led by the University of
Nottingham (Dr Rasa Remenyte-Prescott, Prof. John Andrews, Kate Sanderson) during
2018–2021. The PG work was accomplished by publishing a book, “Modelling the
Resilience of Infrastructure Networks” (Eds. Rasa Remenyte-Prescott, Vytis
Kopustinskas) in late 2021.

Research in resilience of infrastructure systems has been constantly increasing during the last decade and is expected to grow further. Although the term resilience originates from research in ecology back in the 1970s, self-repairable computer systems developed in the same decade for space and defence applications can be considered among the first engineering implementations of resilience concepts.

Resilience applications in technical systems have evolved significantly over the last two decades, and the concept has been formally transferred to the policy domain through the Directive on the Resilience of Critical Entities (CER Directive), which entered into force in January 2023, replacing the former Critical Infrastructure Directive (2008).

The PG focuses on resilience applications in critical infrastructures, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration and the transfer of proven methods across infrastructure domains, including energy systems and NaTech-related infrastructures. Partners concentrate on their specific infrastructure domains while fostering methodological exchange of successful approaches.

The following key issues are addressed by the Project Group:

• Methodological development of resilience assessment, from conceptual
  frameworks to modelling approaches
• Definition of resilience metrics and development of quantitative tools for
  decision-making

As in the previous PG, a full life-cycle system approach is adopted
ESReDA Project Group Proposal