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Research and innovation
The team from Université Paris Cité’s Master’s in Risk and Crisis Engineering joins a European initiative focused on climate resilience.
Research and innovation
Independent navigation, sensors, materials and energy: convergences between the maritime and space sectors are opening new paths towards technological autonomy.
Crisis management
Leadership, decision-making, communication and learning: the role of ISO 22361 in building a common language for crisis management.
Cybersecurity
As artificial intelligence systems move from recommendation to action, control over models, permissions and dependencies becomes strategic.
Human factors
When faced with risk, human beings do not respond only to probabilities. They respond to a perception of danger shaped by their emotions, experience, level of trust and sense of…
Defence
Ramping up the defence industry requires connecting orders, financing, skills and supply-chain resilience.
Strategy and sovereignty
The challenge is no longer to defend humanity's place against machines, but to decide how we want to exercise power, make decisions and remain…
Cybersecurity
Europe's space sector has become critical infrastructure, central to defence, communications, navigation, crisis management and the economy. Yet this growing dependence is also creating new vulnerabilities. From satellites to ground stations, from data to suppliers, Europe must now make cybersecurity a…
Research and innovation
For decades, Europe has funded research as a public good, designed to advance knowledge, encourage cooperation and drive economic…
Crisis management
A paralysed IT system, stolen health data, a false claim that goes viral: health crises also unfold in the digital domain. Protecting patients now means securing both the tools and the information that guides their decisions.
Crisis management
A crisis forces institutions to pursue several legitimate objectives that temporarily become difficult to reconcile. Preparedness can make a threat invisible, informing people can increase doubt, centralisation can slow action on the ground, protection can provoke escalation, and relief can fuel…
Theatrum BelliDefence
Europe is scaling up ammunition production. But where will these munitions be tested? Stéphane Gaudin examines the overlooked constraints on test and qualification capacity.
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