Software reliability for critical infrastructures: Co-Development, Implementation and wider application of solutions in Pilot Infrastructures such as Storm Surge Barriers [FA]
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North SeaDescription
Thematic information
Priority: (VI-B_NS_1) Priority 1: Robust and smart economies in the North Sea region
Priority specific objective: RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies
Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity
Type of intervention: 010 Research and innovation activities in SMEs, including networking
Partners (12)
Lead Partner: Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat Rijkswaterstaat
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL003214412B13
Address: Rijnstraat 8, 2515XP The Hague, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/en
Total budget: EUR 1 808 273.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 1 084 964.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 723 309.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Voies navigables de France
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Name: Voies navigables de France
Partner’s ID if not PIC: FR89130017791
Address: 175 rue Ludovic Boutleux, 62400 Béthune, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Website: http://www.vnf.fr
Total budget: EUR 1 707 100.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 1 024 260.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 682 840.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij
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Name: Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij
Partner’s ID if not PIC: BE0887.290.276
Address: Dokter De Moorstraat 24-26, 9300 Aalst, Belgium
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.vmm.be
Total budget: EUR 311 084.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 186 650.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 124 434.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Universiteit Twente
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Name: Universiteit Twente
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL002946725B01
Address: Drienerlolaan 5, 7522NB Enschede, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/
Total budget: EUR 544 058.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 326 435.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 217 623.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Universität des Saarlandes
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Name: Universität des Saarlandes
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE138117521
Address: Saarbrücken Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/en
Total budget: EUR 533 089.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 319 853.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 213 236.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz
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Name: Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE 188 571 852
Address: Am Sportplatz 23, 26506 Norden, Germany
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.nlwkn.niedersachsen.de/
Total budget: EUR 121 082.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 72 649.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 48 433.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Lunds Universitet
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Name: Lunds Universitet
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SE202100321101
Address: Stora Algatan 4, 22100 Lund, Sweden
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/
Total budget: EUR 405 189.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 243 113.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 162 076.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Kystdirektoratet
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Name: Kystdirektoratet
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 33 15 72 74
Address: Højbovej 1, 7620 Lemvig, Denmark
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: https://kyst.dk/
Total budget: EUR 301 837.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 181 102.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 120 735.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Göteborgs kommun
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Name: Göteborgs kommun
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SE212000135501
Address: Kopmansgatan 20, 40316 Göteborg, Sweden
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: https://goteborg.se
Total budget: EUR 361 197.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 216 718.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 59.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 144 479.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Fjordgruppen
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Name: Fjordgruppen
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DK43778978
Address: Rebekkavej 23, sttv, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: http://www.fjordgruppen.dk
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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Name: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Partner’s ID if not PIC: NL001956218B01
Address: De Zaale, 5612AZ Eindhoven, Netherlands
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.tue.nl
Total budget: EUR 959 293.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 575 576.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 383 717.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
- Aalborg Universitet
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Name: Aalborg Universitet
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DK29102384
Address: Fredrik Bajers Vej 7K, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.en.aau.dk/
Total budget: EUR 357 100.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 214 260.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 60.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 142 840.00
GBER schemes / de minimis:
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Summary
Project acronym: STORM_SAFE
Project ID: GgKNljWq6
Project start date: 2024-01-01
Project end date: 2027-12-31
Project status: ongoing
Relevant mentions and prizes:
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Total budget/expenditure: EUR 7 409 302.00
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 4 445 580.00
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 60.00%
Co-financing sources:
- ERDF: Amount, EUR 4 445 580.00. Co-financing rate, 60.00%.
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Deliverables:
- Stock taking of previous results as a basis for project work and consolidation of cooperation system with partners, observers and further stakeholders. / Stock taking of the results of the previous activities, especially the community of knowledge, former software initiatives and EU-projects to identify synergies. Behind every partner is a whole cluster: therefore, the team will systemise cooperation between partners and further stakeholders. As an example, only in DK, the cluster comprises: Danish Coastal Authority, Aalborg Uni (PP), 46 Municipalities, utility companies NOVAFOS and HOFOR, consultings e.g.: LYCEUM (protection of Roskilde Fjord).
- Negotiating further committment / In close connection to the outreach/peer review campaign in WP1, the team will now engage in intensifying the contact to further interested authorities to prepare future replication / transfer. Round of negotiations to engage in further commitement to actually pilot particular elements or more comprehensive solutions and to frame this in Letters of intent/commitment At least 10 Internal, Bi- or multilateral meetings Set of signed Letters of Intent or other forms of committment
- Inviting key actors to the table / In two external events, outreach will be realised to present and discuss the strategy, generate dissemination, feedback and exchange with a general objective to trigger EU wide applicability. First meeting: Circle of key actors from the associated partners and further peers affiliated to the partners (US Army Corps of Engineers, Indian key-experts, Observers from Italy / UK). Second meeting: invitation of a wider round of further stakeholders, including a wide variety of other sectors.
- Stock taking of policy status-quo / The STORM_SAFE team develops and up-to date overview on related strategies / policies in the participating countries - on the level of municpalities (e.g. Gothenburg) - on regional (e.g. Lower Saxony, Flanders) to understand also the coordination between national and regional levels in federal states such as Germany - National (Netherlands, France, etc.) and - EU level (Digital strategies as well as sectoral strategies) The results form the basis for the proposal of targeted policy improvement.
- Definition of needs profiles from the viewpoint of decison-makers, coordinators and operators of water infrastructure (storm surge barriers and sluice systems) / Stock taking of needs profiles of the different critical water infrastructure: Storm Surge Barriers (different types), sluice systems (VNF, NLWKN), pumping systems (VMM), city profiles (Gothenburg). In addition to that, stock taking does also include the different stages (age) of the infrastructure's life cycle: planning stage; 20 years old, 50 years old, close to decline. The report will conclude not only different needs, but will alsot create a pathway along the lifetime of an infrastructure.
- Case study assessment & application planning Nr. 1: feasibility Planning of digitally managed/monitored storm surge protection, exemplarily for Gothenburg in Swedenitally managed/monitored storm surge protection, exemplarily for Gothenburg in Sweden / See Annex for more information Category: Integrated Planning of software management for urban barriers for coastal cities Status of infrastructure: Future infrastructure Challenge: Integrate local, regional and national infrastructure plans (long-term) with multisectoral political strategies (for building, digitalisation, safety, CCA). Demonstrator: Integrated plan for building and software design for inner-urban storm protection USP: Integrated decision-making taking Host actor: City of Gothenburg
- Creating a platform of solutions / The project team will reserve this activity to ensure sufficient capacities to thoroughly revisit the comprehensive, modular strategy and develop an accesible platform for stakeholders with the following functions: - Background information (legal framework, etc). - Accessible documentation of the comprehensive strategy - Space for the guidelines to be developed in WP3 - List of contacts in various EU countries - Testimonials from key experts in the field from the STORM_SAFE partnership
- Policy gap analysis / A deeper look in to the strategic / policy framework library created in Activity 4.1 will be a joint analysis on gaps or room for improvement in those policies and drafting of a set up of concrete policy recommendations. To be efficient regarding capacities and stay transnational at the same time, small tandem teams will be formed within the partnership that are especially interested in the different policy clusters to be analysed. The deliverable will lay the basis for concrete proposal.
- Meetings with partners and a wider group of peer reviewers / stakeholders to design comprehensive strategic approach / Co-assessment of usability of proposed solutions for use in different types of critical water infrastructures: The first of 3 modules of the strategy lays the foundation and makes research results actionable. Together, the groups needs to accomplish the complex challenge to anticipate current/future developments, think along an infrastructures lifetime including planning. To produce integrated results, the working group will carry out well-planned, moderated interdisciplinary development meetings.
- Case study assessment & application planning Nr: 2:Preparing the ground for an integrated, joint vision of reliable, software controlled coastal/fjord protection for both Roskildefjord and Isefjord in Denmark / See Annex for more information Category: Blueprint for participatory country approach Status of infrastructure: Vision of storm-surge barrier as a response to Climate change Challenge: Providing solutions for the the financial / decison-making burden of introducing a reliable barrier to protect population/economy. Demonstrator: Civil movement with strong vision of coastal defense / uptake to decision-makers USP: Understandable concept for modernisation / SME integration Host actor: Fjordgruppen / DCA
- Creation of practical step-by-step guidelines / To bring the strategy into action, partners for replication/transfer of guidance as well as key staff in the participating infrastructure authorities need understandable and step-by-step guidance, both for transformation as well as implementation from scratch. The project team will create a down-to-earth- guide to be used as stand-alone document, but forms part of the strategy. It explains the implementation for for experts from different professional fields i through a navigable set of Q&As.
- Identification of further research fields in cooperation with a wider network of universities / In close cooperation with Activity 1.9. (Development of publications) the university partners of STORM_SAFE will transnationally meet and develop an overview with regards to further research needs. Cooperation strategies (bilateral up to multilateral) with further universities will be arranged. The event will result in concrete arrangements for further cooperative and transnational outreach to joint research and will also transnationalise the use of regional and national funding sources.
- Drafting of a set of solution for implementation, tackling gaps and barriers / Through pooling / discussing of different approaches at university level, integrating ongoing discussion with authorities, a range of more integrated solutions to improved software reliablity forms the basis for a wider strategy. 15 solutions will be derived from the pooling of knowledge and joint brainstorming. the report will address identified knowledge gaps, based on, among other things, the brainstrom, propose conceptual solutions and planning process in order to solve real-life problems
- Multiplication campaign / Realising a multiplication campaign to disseminate the strategy/platform towards networks within academia, different infrastructure networks, large associations etc.). The initative will be organised in the following steps: Scan of list of possible contacts from earlier work in WP1 and 3 for dissemination Design of an outreach campaign that triggers multiplication, transfer and replicaton of the work done. Evaluation of transfer results via a survey, presentation of results via online meeting.
- Highlighting of practice examples in policy recommendations / This specific communication campaign is dedicated to a proactive anchoring of project examples in the public displays of policy documents. For this, the procedure will be as follows: 1) Identification of targeted policy documents 2) Engagement in a contact with the responsibles for the policy 3) Proposal of two options to highlight the best-practice examples from STORM_SAFE: - Integration of the references into the next policy update - Integration as illustrative annex to the existing display
- Case study assessment & application planning Nr 3: Preparing the ground a document-based to model-based system engineering for 6 storm-surge barriers in the Netherlands (budget-intensive transformation case) / See Annex for more information Category: Transformation of software reliability in operational storm surge barriers Status of infrastructure: Existing infrastructure in need of maintenance Challenge: Replacement and renovation of ageing/outdated software of operating control systems Demonstrator: Developing a new, more advanced way for designing am more reliable software and guiding the transformation USP: Transformation towards improved software reliability efficiency/effectiveness Host actor: RWS
- Series of 3-day focused cooperative co-assessment activities to improve robustness and applicability of the developed solutions / Series of more focused, longer cooperation activities (e.g. 3 days job-shadowing) to evaluate the potential positive effects, but also the obstacles to implementation (validation, verification, transformation). This process will widen the networking with stakeholders on site and improve the pool of experiences/knowledge. The solutions will be continuously revisited for robustness and applicability. Deliverable: 4 internal events: 3-day cooperation events in 4 different critical infrastructures.
- Replication campaign / In order to investigate the replication potential in the EU, but also to trigger replication, an EU wide online survey will be developed to proactively generate responses. The survey will have three functions: Receive first-hand informaton with regards to possible further networking/replication actors across Europe and abroad. Receive first-hand information on possible barriers and success factors for replication. Better understand legal / framework constraints.
- Update of engineering standards / Parallel to the activity to enlarge the scope of new research areas (see activity 4.3.), the authorites will rather focus on options to embed the results from this project into engineering standards, like NEN, ISO, or IEC. (A concrete example would be the NEN 6787-1 :2020 standard on machine safety for movable bridges.) The project team will proceed as follows: - Idenfication of standardisation needs - Concrete proposals for standardisation
- Case study assessment & application planning Nr 4: Preparing the ground towards reliable remote control / automation of sluice systems in France (budget-intensive transformation case) / See Annex for more information Category: Reliable remote control Status of infrastructure: Sluice operating systems in various stages of infrastructure lifetime. Challenge: Transformation of limited human capital/capacities towards upscaling and anchoring of a uniform, digital operating system. Demonstrator: Transform local manually operated sluices into a reliably software-operated, remotely controlled sluice system. USP: Country wide. unified approach, improved public service Host actor: VNF
- From first draft towards full development: First draft of a comprehensive, yet modular strategy for developing improved software reliability / Joint work to aggregate and prepare a comprehensive, modular strategy to be piloted in the next work package. This activity is closely linked to activities in WP2 / WP4 that will also contribute modules to the develoment of the strategy. For this first step - the draft - the strategy will draft a synergetic combination of the specific approaches to software reliability from Universities Saarland, Twente, Eindhoven, Lund and Aalborg. The strategy will be a key output of STORM_SAFE (see also Annex)
- Recommendations for future at least 4 future funding programmes / Due to the multidisciplinary (engineering and software) approach, it is considered crucial that also future funding programmes beyond 2027 pick up the complexity of this transformative process and pick this up in the design of the funding instruments. The project team will proceed as follows: Meeting with selected programme representatives Recommendation how to pick up the topic, especially Interreg B North Sea and North West Europe 2028-2035 and the upcoming HORIZON EUROPE programme
- Case study assessment & application planning Nr 5: Feasibility of Integrated regulation of multifunctional pump system for both nature conservation and flood protection in the Zwin-area near Brugge in Belgium / See also Annex for more information Category: Integrated solutions for multifunctional purposes Status of infrastructure: Pumping system, regulated manually Challenge: Integrated software controlled regulation of two functions (nature conservation through freshwater input & flood resilience actions) Demonstrator: Transforming manually controlled pumping system towards an integrated response to climate change challenges USP: Multifunctionality of the infrastructure Host actor: VMM
- Long - term communication action plans to multiply and replicate the approach for authorities and allow adaptation of the identified solutions also to other sectors / STORM_SAFE will use the strategy to actively promote the strategy for authorities that are interested to replicate the approach. Thereby, the project will generate and implement 2 pathways to trigger replication: - multiplication campaign: promotion of the STORM_SAFE-Strategy via multiplayers consisting of the following groups: - the already established community of knowledge that will further exchange and promote the project results via the networks of its partners. - communication via associations of authorities such as the CIP (International Association for Critical Infrastructure Professionals) or water related networks, - communication to networks in other sectors, for example: ERA (European Union Agency for Railroad) or WANO (World association of Nuclear operators). - replication campaign: dissemination to associated networks to trigger replication: survey to assess and confirm the interest of other institutions in this field. See also Activity 4.8. for outreach to broader public.
- Providing information and receiving peer review: Open conference for experts and stakeholders / After the internal work in activities 1-6, the STORM_SAFE partners will reach out to synergy projects, external stakeholders and future infrastructure operators: a joint multidisciplinary and transnational hybrid meeting as open conference will be organised to: - Inform external experts /future users. - Receive peer review on the scientifc robustness of the solutions proposed. Participants, experts and stakeholders/operators involved will also gain a general understanding of the software challenge.
- Preparing practical and illustrative case examples / The activity focuses on a visual / understandable preparation of illustrative case examples as part of the the comprehensive, modular strategy. They will form key annexes to the strategy and will contribute a hands-on examplary character to the strategy. The STORM_SAFE steering group will decide in their meetings which examples exactly will be subject to be integrated in the annex. Attention will be paid to a wide variety encompassing planning as well as transformation of existing structures.
- Connecting to a wider policy context at EU level / The focus of this activity lies in the connection to further related strategies. A major aspect will be climate change adaptation and the EU flood directive. Connection will be e.g. made to the Climate-Adapt Platform, a partnership of EU KOM and EEA (Example: work with the urban adaptation map viewer or feed recommendations to support the Objective 1 of the Climate Adapation Strategy 2022-2024 on Trusted data and information). Sub-Deliverables: exchange meetings / summary report
- Activation of partner's information channels / To boost dissemination, the activation of well-established and impactful partner communication channels is crucial. Start of continuous communication via the com. channels of partner institutions (newsletters, social media, etc.). The task involves the communication units in all partners institutions and will initiate the first official and comprehensive information for the respective target groups (Universities: Academia; Authorities: IT- respective water related associations of authorities).
- Triggering of fact-based, regional, integrated policy development, based on support of citizens for improved resilience of critical infrastructures / Citizens will, territorially and socio-economically, strongly benefit from an improved digital resilience of critical infrastructures. However, to transform regional policy making, it is necessary to generate a strong co-ownership of the regional population and stakeholders. This will trigger the readiness for an integrated approach, also in the context of necessary climate adaptations. The STORM_SAFE approach will push for evidence-based information and for regional policy transformation.
- Collection of further potential demonstration cases / The joint work on software reliability will focus on far more demonstration cases than the five that are being presented. All examples will be aggregated, assessed, discussed. Other than the cases presented in Activity 3-7, the further cases will be prepared, presented, and will be a valuable subject to joint assessment. However, their implementation will be solely subject to external financial sources beyond the project capacities.
- Development and promotion of 3 publications by innovation partners / The innovation partners of STORM_SAFE, mostly universities, will develop plans and concepts for scientific publications. As the work package will continue throughout the projects, the deliverables will be at least 3 official scientific publications in scientific journals. The publications will be promoted via a community of knowledge with the aim to anchor this emerging field of research in other digital scientific institutions. Sub-Deliverables: 3 Publications; Dissemination roadmap
- Round table / soundboard with a wider circle of observers / While the mutual exchange with interested stakeholders takes place on a continuous basis between partners and observers, Work Package 2 gives space to a round table phase to present actual findings and to soundboard them with a wider circle of possible replicators within the NSR, but also within the EU. E.g., the Hamburg Port Authority has expressed interest, but also members of the wider community of knowledge (Venice, Thames Barriers,etc) as well as the urban areas of Gothenburg / Copenhagen.
- Six integrated plenary meetings for demonstration, coordination and controlling at pilot sites / Series of meetings of the plenary group on the case study sites: Brainstorming on, revisiting and adaptation of the software solutionsthat have been developed. The meetings reach out the regional stakeholders, thereby anchoring the project activities in the regional territory for the benefit of the local participatents that coordinate and operate the respective infrastructures. Meetings are planned in a rotating system, including a demonstration of infrastructure / software performance.
- Transnationally applicable communication action plan for scientific institutions / Transnationally applicable communication action plan for scientific institutions The activation of partners communication channels, the development of content and the elaboration of publications will contribute to a transnationally applicable communication action plan that can be applied for the purpose of improving software realiability for infrastructures across Europe. The communication action plan will reach out to the different scientific networks and conferences and fixes / schedules appearance and participation of the innovation partners of the project. The high involvement of universities (justified through the emerging nature of this research field software reliability) as well as innovation actors will be the basis for the elaboration of 3 official scientific publications in the field of digital resilience. The plan will help to connect the research field to practical applicability in the real world of critical infrastructure in the water sector. They will respect both confidentiality request of infrastructures responsibles as well as IPR rights.
- Analyis and impact assessment of cross-cutting aspects SME involvement, climate change adaptation, regional resilience, cybersecurity / Integration of relevant cross-cutting aspects to the demonstration cases, aspects and their connection to the demonstrators will be jointly reflected. Key messages will be added to the comprehensive strategy: SME involvement RWS, VMM, VNF and Fjordgruppen as well as the universities are affiliated with SME networks. Climate change and regional resilience Lund and VMM will present the integration of CCA-aspects Cybersecurity aspects RWS will integrate the topic via cooperation with the project ATHENA
- Assessment of application/transfer options / The activitiy focuses on collaborative assessment of options for concrete pilots in further types of critical infrastructures (joint work on site) as a basis for the coordinated organisation of transfer (WP3) to other infrastructures. The reflection will be closely attached to work on the pilot cases and will therefore be very practically and close-to-reality. The transfer potential will then be summarised and taken up by the activities of WP3.
- Communication update on partner websites / An coordinated, transnational communication campaign will be organised in 3 steps: 1) Listing of partners websites, EU-websites / university websites both from partners as well as from members of their networks 2) Categorising and tailoring the information to the respective target groups. 3) Posting of information of concrete pilot examples media / web-channels with high outreach impacts. The campaign will have one initial positioning and then at least 2 updates during the project implementation.
Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
- The overarching strategy Shaping Europe's digital future consists of many strategic clusters, represented by respective policies. STORM_SAFE will especially contribute e.g. to the following thematic areas: - Under Advanced Digital Technologies, the project will contribute the realibility aspect of advanced digital technologies / computing. - Under International Cooperation in Digital, the project will develop a transnational platform the develop transnational outputs.
- Europe's industrial strategy (2020) strives for sucessful transition in climate neutrality and digital leadership. STORM_SAFE will contribute by adding implementational demonstration and strategic do-how from a highly complex area of making software more reliable and supporting autarky of public institutions. Especially in the areas of Resilience of the single market as well as Multi-Country approaches, the project can demonstrate advantages of digital transformation in the public sector.
- Europe's TA2030 focuses, amongst other aspects on Sustainable digital and physical connectivity of places as contribution to a sustainable territorial development. STORM_SAFE will contribute by establishing strong digial links between different public infrastructures, e.g. through promoting the remote control systems of the French sluices. Furthermore the TA2030 has, different from the predecessor (TA2020) a strong implementational aspect. Also here, STORM_SAFE contributes with evidence.
- The European Green Deal does also encompass the new Industrial Strategy (see above). In addition to that, especially two main objectives of this umbrella strategies will be contributed to by STORM_SAFE: future-proof jobs and skills training for the transition globally competitive and resilient industry
- The IMP is a policy framework aiming to foster the sustainable development of all .... coastal and ..., ... by developing cross-cutting tools. The main objectives and corresponding fields of action for STORM_SAFE of the IMP (COM(2007) 0575) are Improving the quality of life in coastal regions by encouraging coastal and maritime tourism, creating a Community Disaster Prevention Strategy and developing the maritime potential of the EU's outermost regions and islands.
- Representative to many national or regional policies that STORM_SAFE will contribute to will be the Dutch Water Act. The Dutch Strom Surge barriers have to comply with the Water Act guidelines to insure the safety of the Netherlands. STORM_SAFE will contribute key elements to this by ensuring a smooth and reliable functioning of these vital infrastructures. Similar examples exist in other project partner countries/regions.
- The Dutch government has a Digital Strategy to become an EU frontrunner in digitalisation. While the EU Digital Strategy provides the framework, it is adapted to NL via the national Digital Strategy, then further to Ministry Digital Strategies. This does also comprise Rijkswaterstaat which led to the development of a digital project portfolio and - amongst other projects - to the development of STORM_SAFE. Similar examples exist in other project partner countries/regions.
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
Delivered output indicator(s):
- (RCO83) Strategies and action plans jointly developed: 256
- (RCO84) Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects: 756
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
Delivered result indicator(s):
- (RCR79) Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations: 2
- (RCR104) Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations: 2
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Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B North Sea
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2025-02-03
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65 / 65 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
791 / 791 (100%)
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