RECITAL — Resilience of Critical Transport and Logistics entities

Transport and port authorities are designated critical entities under the CER Directive, yet their supervision tools were built for day-to-day traffic and flow management — not for compound crises in which natural hazards (coastal flooding and storm surge, heatwaves, wildfires, high winds), technical failures and hybrid threats cascade across interdependent infrastructures (transport–energy–telecom).

RECITAL will extend a proven multimodal supervision platform — already in operation with French and European transport authorities, metropolitan areas and ports — into an interoperable resilience decision-support platform for critical entities. Core innovations: (1) automated criticality and vulnerability mapping of transport/logistics networks; (2) multi-hazard exposure layers fused with real-time operational data; (3) modelling of cascading and interdependency effects across critical entities; (4) a what-if scenario and predictive-projection engine for stress-testing and crisis anticipation; (5) a crisis cockpit delivering real-time situational awareness and decision support during fast-evolving events, with degraded-mode operation and continuity/recovery sequencing; (6) interoperability with civil-protection systems and alerting standards , plus accessibility-aware public crisis information.

The solution will be validated at TRL 6-7 through operational pilots at European port and metropolitan transport nodes, in cooperation with infrastructure operators and civil-protection practitioners, demonstrating measurable gains in vulnerability identification, service/business continuity and inter-organisational coordination. The project will explicitly ensure complementarity and non-duplication with INFRA-01/INFRA-02 (2025) and the NaTech DRS-01-04 (2024) outcomes.

Needed competences & potential partners

Competences sought:

• Multi-hazard and climate-risk modelling (hazard data, scenario generation, NaTech)

• Critical-infrastructure interdependency and cascading-effects modelling

• Geospatial and Earth-Observation data integration (Copernicus/Galileo)

• Crisis management and civil-protection operational expertise

• Critical-infrastructure operations (port, multimodal transport, energy/utility)

• Cyber/hybrid-threat resilience

• SSH / societal resilience, accessibility, ethics and data protection (DPIA)

• Exploitation, standardisation and innovation uptake

Number and type of partners — target consortium of 9–13 beneficiaries across at least 5–7 EU Member States / Associated Countries:

• 1 coordinator — experienced RTO or large company with a Horizon Europe coordination track record

• 1–2 RTOs / universities — risk, interdependency and EO modelling

• 2–3 SMEs — including Nextérité (FR) as platform and integration lead; potentially a cyber/hybrid-threat SME and an EO/data SME

• 1 large company / system integrator (optional, for scale-up and integration)

• ≥3 practitioners as full beneficiaries (mandatory for this topic) — e.g. a port authority, a multimodal transport authority/operator, and a civil-protection / fire-and-rescue agency (optionally a utility/energy operator)

• 1 SSH / ethics partner

We are seeking an experienced coordinator (RTO or large company) to lead consortium and project management. Nextérité (SME, FR) will act as technical/platform lead — owning the supervision and decision-support work package and contributing to exploitation — rather than coordinating, and can mobilise port and transport practitioners toward the mandatory practitioner requirement.