Gemini centre - Resilient critical infrastructures and societies - CERCIS

What is in it for you?

The centre offers research-based solutions to design, operate and manage complex sociotechnical systems and organisations. Our work deals with revealing and enhancing resilience performance at micro-level (complex socio technical systems), meso (organisations) and macro (society). CERCIS activities are implemented around three focus areas resilient societies, resilient infrastructures and resilient digital societies.

Why resilience?

The concept of “resilience” has gained extreme popularity in many scientific areas such as societal, organisational, urban, city, personal, human, socio-technical and disaster research. As a field of research, resilience addresses the ability of systems, organisations and society to continue operations both under expected and unexpected situations (adapted from Hollnagel). This is a response to the increased of complexity, interdependencies across critical infrastructures and uncertainty posed by the emergence of disruptive technological innovations, climate change and changes in geopolitical structures.

Our work is transdisciplinary ….

Resilience is a transdisciplinary area of research that integrates social (e.g. sociology, psychology), formal (e.g. computer sciences) and applied sciences (e.g. engineering and technology). The centre will work at the intersection of technology (critical infrastructures, tools, ICT systems), formal structures (governance, organisation, responsibilities) and informal structures (social capital, trust, collaboration, power alliances). It will conduct transdisciplinary research and it will not conduct research based on a single discipline.

The centre will coordinate two arenas of cooperation a generic arena concerning advances in theory (societal, organisational and systems) and application arena (aviation, maritime, oil and gas, communication, safety and cybersecurity, autonomy, digitalization, smart cities).

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Faculty of Economics and Management

• Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management 
• Contact: Trond Kongsvik 

Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

• Department of Geography 
• Contact: Martina Calovi

Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

• Department of Information Security and Communication Technology
• Contact: Nils Kalstad

Faculty of Engineering

• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
• Contact: Ivan Depina

NTNU Social Research

• Studio Apertura
• Contact: Ivonne Herrera, Torgeir Kolstø Haavik, Per Morten Schiefloe

SINTEF

SINTEF Digital

• Department of Software Engineering, Safety and Security
• Cybersecurity: Per Håkon Meland
• Resilience: Tor Olav Grøtan, Matthieu Branlat, Martina Ragosta
• Department of Technology Management  
• Contact: Trine Stene

SINTEF Ocean

• Energy and Transport
• Contact: Kay Fjørtoft 
• Aquaculture Technology
• Contact: Kristin Størkersen

SINTEF Energy Research

• Energy systems 
• Contact: Gerd Kjølle

SINTEF Community

• Infrastructures
• Contact: Rita Ugarelli