Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection and Climate Change

Day 1 -Tuesday March 7th 2017

Room 012, South Block, European University Cyprus

08.30 – 09.00 Registration
Welcome Session
9:00-9:10 Introductory remarks & Welcome note – Cyprus Civil Defence (CCD)
9:10-9:20 Welcome Speeches

  • Cyprus Civil Defence, Commissioner Loucas Hadjimichael
  • European University of Cyprus, Dr Georgios Boustras
9:20-9:30 Presentation of EASME activities – Dr Irena Gabrielaitiene
1st Session : An introduction to Critical Infrastructure Protection
09:30 – 09:50 An overview of Critical Infrastructure (CI) resilience to climate change – Dr Athanasios Sfetsos, National Centre of Scientific Research “Demokritos”
09:50 – 10:10 An overview of key concepts and definition of CI protection – Dr Georgios Giannopoulos & Dr Marianthi Theocharidou, Joint Research Centre
10:10 – 10:30 Impacts of climate change on CI – Louisa Marie Shakou, EUC
10:30 – 10:45 Q&A
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
2nd Session : CI risk and resilience assessment methodologies
11:00 – 11:20 Risk assessment methodologies for CI – Dr Georgios Giannopoulos & Dr Marianthi Theocharidou, Joint Research Centre
11:20 – 11:40 Assessing interconnections and interdependencies in CI – Dr Georgios Giannopoulos & Dr Marianthi Theocharidou, Joint Research Centre
11:40 – 12:00 Natural hazard impacts on critical infrastructures: Risk assessment and mapping–Dr Marianthi Theocharidou, Joint Research Centre
12:00 – 12:20 The EU-CIRCLE risk and resilience framework – Dr Ralf Hedel Fraunhofer IVI and Hisham Tariq University of Salford
12:20 – 12:40 Interactive Q&A session
3rd session: Cyprus Climate Change National Risk Assessment (NRA)
12:40 – 13:00 An overview of Cyprus’s Climate Change NRA –Dr Theodoulos Mesimeris, Department of Environment
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:20 Common Alerting Protocol for Multi Hazard Early Warning System. A developing system – Dr. Kleanthis Nicolaides, Department of Meteorology Cyprus
4th session: Interaction of CI communities
14:20 – 14:40 Climate Data & the Climate Impact community – Dr. Rasmus E. Benestad, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
14:40 – 15:00 EU-CIRCLE capabilities, functionality and usability – Georgios Eftychidis, Center for Security Studies (KEMEA)
15:00 – 15:40 The EU-CIRCLE case studies – Dr Ralf Hedel Fraunhofer IVI, Dr Bingunath Ingirige University of Huddersfield, Dr Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia and Dr Albert Chen University of Exeter, Dr Krzysztof kolowrocki Gdynia Maritime University & Midori Million and Catherine Freissinet ARTELIA
15:40 – 16:00 Q&A

Day 2 – Wednesday March 8th 2017

Room 012, South Block, European University Cyprus
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and Registration.
Spatial modeling tools for assessing risks and support resilience of CIs
09:00 – 09:15 Presentation of CIRP – Dr Antonis Kostaridis, SATWAYS
09:15 – 09:30 Presentation of GRRASP – Dr Georgios Giannopoulos & Dr Marianthi Theocharidou, Joint Research Centre
Table Top eXercise “Strengthen CI resilience planning to climate change and relative risks”
09:30 – 10:00 Scenarios and participant involvement
10:00 – 13:00 Table – top exercise

(Coffee will be served in parallel)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Debriefing and evaluating the EU-CIRCLE TTX
14:00 – 14:30 Table top exercise evaluation
14:30 – 15:00 Round table discussion
15:00 – 15:30 Conclusions – Next Steps