National CIP Workshop

KEMEA, being the Greek National Contact Point of the European Program on Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIP), in cooperation with the ARGOS project and the CIPRE-NET project represented by the Joint Research Center Ispra of the European Commission, jointly organized a two-day workshop on "Protection of Critical Infrastructures".

The training program was held on KEMEA premises on the 14 & 15 December, 2015 and was attended by over 160 specialist representatives on critical infrastructures. In the framework of presenting the European acquis, expert speakers from KEMEA and the Joint Research Center presented innovative methods and solutions for the protection of critical facilities against man-made and natural risks.

ARGOS Workshop in the 11th Prague Security Conference

The Charles University in Prague (CUNI) within the framework of the 11th Prague Security Conference successfully organized the ARGOS project presentation workshop for end-users and experts.

The workshop took place in the 6^th of November 2015, at the Hotel International in Prague – Czech Republic and was attended by approximately 25 participants representing several local end-users and experts, within the scope of the ARGOS.

ARGOS Clustering with EDEN Project

The “End-User Driven demo for CBRNe (EDEN)” FP7 Project workshop was organized in February 25-26th, 2015 in the Main School of Fire Service (SGSP) in Warsaw, Poland. This was a Virtual Facility (VF) event in a series of four workshops led by the SGSP in context of EDEN. Each VF is a virtual simulation of respective emergency radiation incident scenarios inside and outside of a nuclear plant which affect public safety at different levels of crisis management in an imaginary country.

The future of surveillance involves anticipate threats

This is one of the conclusions that it was reach during the ARGOS project workshop that took place last 10th March in Madrid. This conference was hold in everis premises and aimed to present the progress made after passing the midway of the project.

It was attended by representatives of different Critical Infrastructure Operators, the Ministry of Defence, law enforcers and technological organizations. It was also attended by the CNPIC (National Centre for Critical Infrastructures Protection in Spain) who gave a brief talk on the implementation of the EPCIP (European programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection) in Spain and the progress made. During the CNPIC intervention it was stated by some of the participants that cooperation between European countries in order to improve the protection of European Critical Infrastructures (ECI) and the creation of a common ground for communication between stakeholders from different countries is the next step that has to be taken. 

ARGOS Clustering with PROACTIVE Project

The PRedictive reasOning and multi-source fusion empowering AntiCipation of attacks and Terrorist actions In Urban EnVironmEnts (PROACTIVE) FP7 Project workshop themed “Models and architectures for emergency management” was organized in February 19th and 20th, 2015 by Consorzio Milano Ricerche and University of Milano Bicocca, Italy in Milan.

ARGOS Annual Review Meeting

27 – 29 January 2015, Tampere, Finland

The ARGOS FP7 Project 1st year Review meeting successfully took place between the 27th and 29th of January 2015 at the city of Tampere in Finland. The consortium presented the progress of the project and the relative results achieved during the first year.

ARGOS Workshop in Madrid

ARGOS project was presented to the Spanish Critical Infrastructure Operators last 12 June during a workshop in everis premises in Madrid. The objective of this workshop was to describe the different parts that will encompass the ARGOS solution (such as vibration sensors, wake-up cameras, data-fusion and data-mining modules…) and gather the necessities and concerns of the CI Operators regarding CI protection.

ARGOS Workshop in Athens

Τhe Center for Security Studies (KEMEA) in cooperation with EVERIS, the ARGOS project Coordinator, organized successfully on 20/3/2014 the first ARGOS  Workshop in Athens in order to identify and elaborate the needs and requirements of the security professionals and the operators of Critical Infrastructures (CIs) as regards the physical security of confined (installations) and extended (networks) infrastructures.