The APRIORI Project is born from the new awareness gained after the recent events that have occurred worldwide (pandemic, war in Ukraine and its repercussions on Europe, extreme events caused by climate change) that a country’s critical infrastructures must be resilient with respect to any threats that may come from natural or man-made events.
Critical infrastructures are part of the national infrastructure of a country, and their destruction or interruption due to crisis factors has adverse effects on the quality of the social and economic functions of a nation and, therefore, on the quality of life of citizens in terms of protection, health, safety, property, and the environment.
Critical infrastructure resilience is a concept related to the ability of a system to perform its critical functions, even in events of disruptive actions, such as natural, accidental or malicious events.
This project proposal is built on research outcomes formulated at the NATO Advanced Training Course SPS.ATC.G5816 “Monitoring and Protection of Critical Infrastructure by Unmanned Systems”, held in Chisinau, Moldova, May 30th–June 5th, 2022, funded by the SPS Programme.