Strengthening the resilience of critical infrastructure has increasing importance for the EU thus the European Commission organised a workshop in the framework of the CERIS to discuss how EU security research may contributes to this goal.

Close to 40 representatives of infrastructure operators, Member States’ authorities, policymakers and researchers met on 16 November 2023 in Brussels to discuss the achievements and future needs regarding the resilience of critical entities since the entry into force of the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive in January 2023.

1. The first panel focused on the operators’ perspectives on research in the field of Critical Entities Resilience, with representatives from DTEK, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Rina Services and SINTEF. 
2. During the second panel, experts discussed security research for Critical Entity Resilience from the point of view of public authorities with panellists coming from Fraunhofer FKIE, the French administration, United Nations and KEMEA.
3. The last panel discussed the transition from the European Research Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection (ERNCIP) to the European Network for Critical Entities Resilience (ENCER). Experts coming from HT Nuclear, the European Risk and Resilience Institute, INTRASTESS Demokritos and the Municipality of Barreiro in Portugal underlined that the new ENCER should involve experts from all critical infrastructure stakeholder communities (e.g. scientists, operators and legislators) and make full use of the ERNCIP achievements.