ROSTREC Project

Energy Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Strategy for Romania and the Regional Perspective (ROSTREC)

Summary of the Project (a short project description with focus on objectives, results, activities, and a short presentation of the partners)

Application

The objective of the present project (ROSTREC) is to promote the energy efficiency and renewable energy sources together with the securing of an adequate protection of the critical infrastructures, by developing an Energy Security Strategy for Romania. The document should revise, update and complete the existing Romanian strategies in the field, with a much larger vision, taking into account: 
- Romania new statute of EU membership (with focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy sources); 
- the international experience (mainly Norwegian); 
- the new developments in energy security and critical infrastructures protection.
The topic of this project resulted from the Think Tank meeting "Energy Security, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resiliency, organised in Lucerna, Switzerland, by the World Security Forum and EURISC Foundation with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

The result of this project will be an intellectual end product with immediate utility for the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Romania.

The Strategy chapters will be developed by the experts, and wide participatory mechanisms will be put in place to secure the feed back. A progress evaluation meeting will be organised during the drafting process. All experts' contributions will be integrated in a final draft, subsequently submitted to a peer review.  The final product will be submitted for endorsement to the Ministry of Economy and Finance and then translated and printed both in Ro and En. The project publicity, monitoring and reporting will be provided on current basis.

The project will be jointly implemented by:
EURISC Foundation - the European Institute for Risk, Security &Communication Management, an independent Think Tank set up in Bucharest, Romania in 1995 as a non for profit institution to study and promote issues related to energy, risk, security and communication at both national and international level, including non-proliferation, non-military risks, primarily natural hazards, climatic chaos and national security, emerging systemic risks, bio terrorism, urban violence, radicalism, the security sector reform, security sector governance and the security culture.
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Norwegian Atlantic Committee, an independent NGO, founded in 1955, working on informing about and increasing the understanding of Norwegian foreign, defense and security policy, especially on the North-Atlantic cooperation. During the last decade it has been working with a broader definition of “security”, focused not only on Norwegian defense and the Trans-Atlantic security policy cooperation, but also on topics such as nuclear safety, environment and energy, and disarmament, terrorism, human rights and civil defense. The Committee enlarged its geographic field of interest, including the Arctic, Europe, Russia, the Balkans, the Black Sea, Caucasus and the Middle East. The main NAC activities included the organization of 3 major conferences, 9 regional conferences, 40 seminars and workshops in Norway. It also organized 10 seminars in the Balkans and South Caucasus.

SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM NORWAY THROUGH THE NORWEGIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA