ECHO’s first local workshop in Slovenia
31st January 2026
On 2nd December 2025, ECHO’s first Slovenian local workshop was held in Jesenice. The workshop was organised and hosted by ECHO’s project partner, the Institute for Corporative Security Services (ICS), who leads ECHO’s Slovenian pilot. The Slovenian pilot focuses on the resilience of electricity and telecommunications infrastructures and services in the Upper Carniola region, with particular emphasis on resilience against heavy storms, floods and landslides in the municipalities of Kranjska Gora and Jesenice.
The workshop brought together regional stakeholders, including authorities at local and national level, critical infrastructure operators, essential service providers from different critical sectors, emergency service providers and other relevant stakeholders.
The workshop provided a structured space for these stakeholders to jointly reflect on current practices (called AS-IS analysis), identify gaps and needs, and outline a future ideal (called TO-BE analysis) in the context of data, tools, strategies, and governance improvements. Across the service life-cycle phases and all stakeholder types at different governance levels, several recurring challenges emerged. These included local risk knowledge not systematically feeding national decisions, and data and governance being bigger barriers than technology. At the same time, participants articulated a range of concrete ideas on how to address these and related challenges, including data, technologies, collaboration mechanisms, and strategic planning, highlighting the need to align national and local investment plans as well as raising awareness on the resilience of critical infrastructure among local communities.
These insights will directly inform the design of future ECHO solutions, including a centralized platform for knowledge exchange, various tools for monitoring and managing resilience, and a future-proof resilience strategy that better connects local realities with national and European frameworks.
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