
Gemini centre - Resilient critical infrastructures and societies - CERCIS

About 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).
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).
Partners and contacts
SINTEF:
- SINTEF Digital, Department Technology Management and Department of Software Engineering, Safety and Security
- Contact: Trine Stene
- SINTEF Ocean, Energy and Transport
- Contact: Kay Fjørtoft
NTNU Social Research:
- Studio Apertura
- Contact: Torgeir Haavik
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: Haakon Lein
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Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geoscience and Petroleum
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Contact: Vidar Hepsø
A network of networks:
We actively contribute to the following associations:
- Resilience Engineering Association
- European Safety and Reliability Association ESRA – Technical committee on resilience engineering
- The Functional Resonance Analysis Method for modelling non-trivial socio-echnical systems
- DARWIN Community of Practitioners
- EC DG Home, Community of Users for a Secure, Safe and resilient Societies
- Resilience Engineering across SINTEF
Upcomming online seminar: Training for Operational Resilience Capabilities, 23 September from 14:00-15:00 CET