TRANSCEND

Project Details for TRANSCEND

Grant agreement ID

101168023

Start Date

01/09/2024

End Date

31/08/2027

Coordinator

LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Funded under

Civil Security for Society

DOI

10.3030/101168023

Project budget

€ 5,195,576,03

EU Contribution

€ 4,378,953.54

Number of partners

21

Countries

7

Project Mission

The transport network is among the so-called Critical Infrastructures' (CIs), which are essential to maintaining the vital functions of the Single Market. While it is by nature a large-scale interconnected and interdependent system to efficiently move people and goods, its complexity also makes it more vulnerable in the event of a disruption and generates economic impact on a European scale. Due to the increasing cross-border interdependencies between services provided using critical infrastructures in these sectors, an interruption in one MS may have implications in other MS or in the Union as a whole. In December 2022, Council Recommendation 2023/C 20/01 suggested giving priority to four of the eleven sectors mentioned in the CER Directive, including transport. Although transport is recognised as a key sector to be protected, freight transport is underrepresented in terms of previous research projects. As supply chains become more complex and global, they rely more on logistics infrastructures that must be resilient to provide seamless transport. Since freight transport terminals are locations where goods are assembled and dispersed, they have always been a focus of security and safety concerns. The overearching objective of TRANSCEND is to provide freight transport critical infrastructure operators with an integrated set of advanced tools, guidelines and technological solutions to reduce risk, and enhance the protection and resilience of their critical infrastructure and interrelated critical infrastructures against physical, cyber and hybrid threats. The contributions will be integrated into a Control Tower, a digital platform with embedded business intelligence giving stakeholders a shared and continuous visibility of threats and risks by breaking down silos within and between organisations. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach, five diverse CIs will experiment methodological and technological solutions as pilots: three leaders and two followers.

Project Objectives

Provide an integrated set of advanced tools, guidelines and technological solutions to reduce risk, and enhance the protection and resilience of their critical infrastructure and interrelated critical infrastructures against physical, cyber and hybrid threats.

Expected results:

• IDENTIFIED VULENRABILITIES AND RISKS: To define mitigation strategies and improve capacity to prevent, resist, absorb and recover from disruptive incidents; threat landscape reference document; vulnerability assessment; resilience assessment; process mining analysis; strengthened cooperation.
• POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: Guidelines for a resilience plan; resilience plan for each pilot; security operational procedures; Inputs for a national risk assessment and resilience strategy
• TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS: To support the implementation of policies and plans for cost-effective risk reduction and resilience; machine-readable threat modelling for large-scale simulations; state-of-the-art analysis of physical and cyber detection technologies; ML/AI-based predictive models and algorithms to detect early signs of disruption; Experimentation of detection technologies; generic TRANSCEND Control Tower.
• REAL WORLDS PILOTS: To demonstrate the impacts of the TRANSCEND solutions to the freight transport sector; to secure cargo integrity; to coordinate capacities between CIs at the regional level; to monitor security incidents in multimodal transport ; concept for testing human behaviour and procedures in realistic attack scenarios.

Link to project website

www.transcend-logistics.eu 

Consortium

Luxembourg Institute Of Science And Technology - LIST, (Luxembourg); Fondazione Istituto Sui Trasporti E La Logistica - ITL (Italy);
Fundacion De La Comunidad Valenciana Para La Investigacion, Promocion Y Estudios Comerciales De Valenciaport - VPF (Spain); Fundacion Zaragoza Logistics Center - ZLC (Spain);
Netcompany-Intrasoft Sa - NCI (Luxembourg);
European Network Of Logistics Competence Centres - OPEN ENLoCC (Belgium);
Universite Du Luxembourg - LCL (Luxembourg);
Luxembourg House Of Cybersecurity - LHC (Luxembourg); Interporto Bologna Spa - IPBO (Italy);
Gruber Logistics S.P.A. (Italy);
DBA Pro Spa - DBA (Italy);
Cargolux Airlines International Sa - CLX (Luxembourg);
Cosco Shipping Ports Terminals Slu (Spain);
CSP Iberian Valencia Terminal Sausa - CSPS (Spain);
CSP Logitren, Sa (Spain);
Inlecom Commercial Pathways Company limited by Guarantee - ICP (Ireland);
Haut-Commissariat À La Protection Nationale - HCPN (Luxembourg);
Institut Luxembourgeois De Regulation - ILR (Luxembourg);
Ministerio Del Interior - CNPIC (Spain);
Mahart Container Center Szolgaltato Kft - MCC (Hungary);
Egnatia Odos Ae - EGN (Greece)