Crisis Management and Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: SUNRISE Project Insights

Abstract

Crisis management is often considered as the short-term, reactive strategy to handle emergencies, while critical infrastructure resilience is a long-term, proactive approach to reduce vulnerabilities and enhance stability. SUNRISE (Strategies and Technologies for United and Resilient Critical Infrastructures and Vital Services in Pandemic-Stricken Europe) is a project, co-funded by the European Commission, that considers lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemics, as well as the related challenges for critical infrastructures (CI) operators to come up with solutions that would help in improving their resilience. This paper explains the main project concepts and brings some insights about how to handle temporary operational conditions during unexpected rapid-onset events.