Risks and resilience

Portfolio overview

Systemic and emerging risks bring new challenges and require innovative responses to tackle future crises and develop sustainable and effective strategies to adapt and enhance resilience. Advancing science is essential for addressing these needs.  

This portfolio will contribute to shaping the EU’s path towards a resilient future, increase its security, cohesion and stability, and develop the future EU approach to crisis management. It will bring together, in an integrated way, the different socio-economic sectors and systems to address all phases of risk management: from prevention and preparedness to response and recovery.  

Objectives

Identify present and future risks 
Define all the main risks that EU citizens face, looking specifically at coexisting factors that can amplify impacts and lead to cascading effects and shocks. 
Improve early warning and monitoring
Develop innovative, integrated early warning and monitoring systems that can complement Member States’ capabilities, including the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. 
Analyse the societal impact of risk 
Assess how shocks impact healthcare, finance, energy, environment and infrastructure, raw materials supply chains and food security.
Recommend strategies to reduce risk and improve societal resilience. 
Contribute to advanced risk management  
Contribute to improving cutting-edge solutions for specific risks, such as financial, geopolitical and security risks, as well as health, natural, climate and technological risks, in line with the One Health approach.
Build relationships with stakeholders 
Interact with stakeholders and partners: from global institutions, EU and countries’ institutions to local authorities and citizens. 
Help to improve trust and collaboration 
Provide clearer guidance to Member States based on shared evidence, improve cooperation and trust, reduce the reporting burden and increase policy engagement.