Can you provide a brief overview of your organisation and its role in the ENDURANCE project?
Engineering INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (abbreviation: ENG) is the Digital Transformation Company, leader in Italy and expanding its global footprint, ENG comprises over 70 companies in 21 countries, with more than 80 offices located throughout Europe, the United States and South America, ensuring global delivery capabilities. It has been supporting the continuous evolution of companies and organizations for more than 40 years, thanks to a deep understanding of business processes in all market segments, fully leveraging the opportunities offered by advanced digital technologies and proprietary solutions. It integrates best-of-breed market solutions, managed services, and continues to expand its expertise through M&As and partnerships with leading technology players. ENG strongly invests both in innovation, through its R&I division, and in human capital, with the internal IT & Management Academy. ENG is a key player in the creation of digital ecosystems that bridge the gap between different markets, while developing composable solutions that ultimately foster a continuous business transformation.
ENG is the ENDURANCE Technical Coordinator, leading T12.2: Quality Assurance & Risk Management. ENG drives the technical and strategic roadmap in WP3 and WP4, respectively ROADMAP: Technical & Strategic Oversight – Phase 1 and – Phase 2, also leading T3.5: Integration, Deployment and Roadmap Pathway, T4.4: ENDURANCE Architecture Finetuning and T4.5: Roadmap Calibration & CI/CD Maintenance. Moreover, ENG also lead T5.2: Trusted EU CER Data Space, T6.2: Performance Finetuning for Trusted EU CER Data Space and T7.4: Dashboards for CI Authorities & Operators. Finally, ENG actively contribute on Large-Scale and Cross-X Exercises (WP9 and WP10) along with dissemination, communication and exploitation activities (WP11).
How does the ENDURANCE project align with your organisation’s mission and objectives? Why is it significant to your sector, and what impact do you hope it will have?
ENDURANCE is strongly aligned with ENG’s research and innovation approach to support in managing complex and systemic risks through advanced analytics, threat intelligence and decision-support tools. ENDURANCE plays a major role in enforcing the ENG market potential in the safety and security sector. ENDURANCE is directly aligned with this strategy, bringing the long-standing R&D&I expertise of ENG in data source interoperabily, information sharing, data processing and situational awareness tools closer to the markets through the deployment of advanced solutions in real pilots. Moreover, the ENDURANCE results could also be a new step in the research on innovative technologies and solutions to be adopted in the security domain, which will improve ENG offer to its Italian customers, including the Italian Ministry of Interior, the Italian Civil Protection and several LEAs, as well as in the context of European research projects and initiatives. Finally, it will exploit the ENG stakeholders’ list to ensure the public outreach of the project’s activities as well as to enlarge the ENDURANCE Pan-European Stakeholders Group.
As a company with long-standing experience in security market, and critical infrastructure protection, ENG sees ENDURANCE as a natural continuation of its commitment to strengthening Europe’s resilience framework. Furthermore, the project is particularly significant because it directly addresses the practical implementation challenges of the CER and NIS2 Directives, moving beyond compliance as a purely regulatory exercise and translating policy requirements into concrete methodologies, interoperable services, and operational tools. This approach resonates with ENG’s objective of bridging the gap between policy, technology, and real-world operations, especially in highly interconnected and cross-sector environments.
For ENG’s sector, ENDURANCE represents an important step toward a more integrated and cooperative European resilience ecosystem. By enabling secure data sharing, joint risk and resilience assessment, and large-scale stress-testing of essential services, the project supports a shift from siloed, asset-centric protection to service-oriented, disruption-resilience strategies. This is crucial for managing cascading effects and cross-border dependencies that increasingly characterise critical infrastructures. Through ENDURANCE, ENG aims to contribute to lasting impact by helping authorities and operators adopt harmonised, actionable resilience strategies, supported by mature (TRL 6–7) services. The project will enhance strategic decision-making, improve preparedness and continuity planning, and support a common European approach to safeguarding essential services against evolving cyber, physical, and environmental threats.
What specific contributions is your organisation making to the ENDURANCE project? What are the key outcomes or goals your organisation hopes to achieve through the ENDURANCE projecT?
Within ENDURANCE, ENG’s R&I team contributes with its expertise in the design and integration of digital services for critical infrastructure resilience, with a particular focus on risk assessment, situational awareness, and decision-support services. ENG plays a key role in translating policy and regulatory requirements stemming from the CER and NIS2 Directives into operational tools and methodologies that can be effectively adopted by authorities and critical infrastructure operators, enabling them to better understand interdependencies, cascading effects, and potential disruption scenarios. By leveraging its experience in data fusion, advanced analytics, situation awareness, ENG ensures that ENDURANCE solutions are scalable, interoperable, and aligned with real operational needs.
Through the project, ENG aims to achieve several key outcomes. These include strengthening the practical applicability of resilience strategies across multiple critical sectors, enhancing cooperation between public authorities and operators, and delivering mature, reusable digital services at TRL 6–7 that can be sustained beyond the project’s lifetime. ENG also seeks to consolidate methodologies and tools that support informed decision-making during both preparedness and crisis phases. ENG’s goal in ENDURANCE is to contribute to a tangible improvement in Europe’s capacity to anticipate, absorb, and recover from disruptions, while laying the groundwork for long-term adoption of integrated resilience solutions that support continuity of essential services at national and cross-border level.
Looking ahead, what lasting impact do you hope the ENDURANCE project will have on your organisation, the sector, or the broader community? What are your long-term goals related to the project?
Looking ahead, ENG sees ENDURANCE as a catalyst for long-term change in how resilience of essential services is approached across Europe. For ENG, the project is expected to consolidate a portfolio of mature, interoperable services and methodologies that can be reused and adapted across different critical sectors, regulatory contexts, and operational environments. This strengthens ENG’s role as a trusted technology partner for stakeholders facing increasingly complex, hybrid risks.
At sector level, ENG hopes ENDURANCE will contribute to a structural shift from fragmented, compliance-driven approaches toward integrated, service-oriented resilience strategies. By promoting shared risk assessment, and secure cooperation across organisational and national boundaries, the project supports a more coherent and pragmatic implementation of the CER and NIS2 Directives. This is particularly important for addressing systemic vulnerabilities and cascading effects that cannot be managed by individual actors in isolation.
From a broader societal perspective, ENG’s long-term vision is that ENDURANCE will help embed resilience as a continuous, collaborative process rather than a one-off exercise. The tools, datasets, and strategies developed in the project are intended to support better preparedness, faster recovery, and more informed decision-making, ultimately contributing to the continuity of essential services that citizens rely on every day. In the long-term, ENG aims to build on ENDURANCE outcomes to support sustainable deployment, further innovation, and cross-project synergies, ensuring that the project’s results continue to generate value well beyond its duration and contribute to a more resilient and secure European infrastructure ecosystem.
What key insights or advice would you offer to other partners or future collaborators? Is there anything else you’d like to share about your organisation’s involvement in ENDURANCE or any final thoughts on the project’s future?
One key insight from ENG’s experience in ENDURANCE is the importance of approaching resilience as a shared responsibility that cuts across sectors, organisations, and disciplines. Projects of this nature are most effective when partners actively align policy, operational realities, and technology from the outset, rather than treating them as separate layers. Open collaboration, trust in data sharing, and a willingness to learn from different sectoral perspectives are essential to addressing systemic and cross-border risks.
For future collaborators, ENG would emphasise the value of focusing early on practical applicability and long-term sustainability. Developing solutions that are technically sound is not sufficient on its own; tools and methodologies must be usable, interoperable, and adaptable to the real constraints faced by authorities and operators. Close engagement with end users throughout the project lifecycle is therefore critical to achieving meaningful impact.
ENG’s involvement in ENDURANCE reflects its broader commitment to supporting European resilience objectives through integrated digital solutions and long-term partnerships. The project demonstrates how collaborative innovation can help translate ambitious policy goals into concrete capabilities that strengthen preparedness and continuity of essential services. ENG sees ENDURANCE not as an endpoint, but as a foundation. The relationships, knowledge, and services developed within the project create strong opportunities for future cooperation, scalability, and reuse, contributing to a more resilient, secure, and connected European infrastructure landscape.
