CS Group
Toulouse, France
Brief biography of partner
CS GROUP – France is a large and innovative company based in Paris, with subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and North America. It employs 2800 people worldwide, among which 90% are PhDs or Engineers, for an annual turnover of 257 M€ in 2024, of which ~20% are allocated to RTD activities. CS GROUP’s expertise in critical systems makes it a partner of choice in the sectors of defense and security, space, as well as aeronautics, energy, and industry. CS GROUP participates in numerous French competitiveness clusters, as well as in the European Commission, ESA and EDF programs. In February 2023, CS GROUP became part of SOPRA STERIA, a European tech leader recognised for its consulting, digital services and software development. CS Group – France have been involved, as a partner and coordinator, in numerous Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects dealing with Crisis management and CI resiliency, such as INTREPID, S4Allcities, STEPWISE, APPRAISE and ATLANTIS. These projects leverage CRIMSON, CS GROUP’s European sovereign Command and Control solution for the protection and defense of populations, critical infrastructures and public spaces. This solution that was recently awarded the European Commission’s 2025 European Security Innovation Award.
Role in the project
CSG will build the Collaborative Resilient Management Platform based on the Crimson platform, a distributed web platform that will enable end-users to visualise the Digital Twin of the environment. This 3D cartographic view, combined with decision support dashboards, will offer situational awareness and synthetic presentation of key indicators to facilitate urban planning and emergency management, efficient decision making and rapid situational report. CSG will also develop a mobile app that is seamlessly integrated to the platform, which will offer communication and knowledge sharing with on-field operational units and volunteers, by supporting the exchange of messages (textual or media), the location tracking (if authorised) and the mission management. At project management level, CSG is responsible for: the development of ECHO services for threat assessment, situational awareness, training, and plan evaluation and their integration into the ECHO platform, as well as the Collaborative Resilience Management Platform.