White Paper on Resilience Management Guidelines for Critical Infrastructures. From theory to practice by engaging end-users: concepts, interventions, tools and methods

Introduction: This White Paper outlines a pathway towards the integration of the European Resilience Management Guidelines (ERMG) developed as part of the work performed by five Horizon 2020 DRS-07-2014 Projects. Resilience management addresses essential capabilities for Critical Infrastructure (CI) to adapt to an uncertain future and changing environment. Targeted at policy makers, it provides an overview of essential resilience concepts, methods and techniques to attain results from these Projects and to work towards an integrated guideline which could be implemented EU wide. It presents various identified issues and opportunities surrounding a potential integration process including: resilience concepts and understanding; terminology and standardisation aspects; the core challenges in reaching full integration; complementarities as well as possible incompatibilities among the processes, methods, tools and interventions, and where future research would be beneficial towards adoption of resilience management. It presents some practical examples from the Project pilots and demonstrations of how these guidelines may be adapted and adopted by numerous target users to a variety of CIs and other domains.