What is Resilience Arena?

Resilience Arena is a crisis simulation, scoring and assurance platform from Resilience Guard. It places leadership and crisis teams inside a realistic, escalating scenario, scores every decision against recognised resilience and security standards, and turns the result into structured, audit-ready evidence, all within a single governed environment.

How is it different from crisis training or a learning system?

Training and learning systems record that people attended and completed content. Resilience Arena measures how leaders actually decide under pressure, scores those decisions against standards, and produces a defensible record of capability that improves over time. It exercises judgement rather than logging attendance.

How is it different from a governance, risk and compliance platform?

Governance and compliance platforms hold registers, controls and policies, but they do not put a crisis in front of the people who would have to manage one. Resilience Arena adds the exercising and the scored, evidenced outcome that those platforms lack, and it can sit alongside an existing governance toolchain rather than replacing it.

Is a Resilience Arena score a compliance certification?

No. Scores are indicative maturity and exposure estimates derived from exercise performance. They support an organisation's evidence base and regulatory readiness, but they are not certifications or legal advice, and the acceptance of any output as evidence remains at the discretion of the relevant authority or auditor.

Which standards and regulations does it support?

Exercises and scores are mapped to ISO 22301, ISO 27001, the NIS2 Directive, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and a governance maturity benchmark, so that ordinary use supports readiness across the regimes that matter to regulated and critical organisations.

Where is our data held, and is it confidential?

Resilience Arena offers European data residency, with a Swiss-residency option, or a fully on-premise installation inside your own boundary. Access is role-based, every material action is recorded in an immutable audit log, and each client environment is strictly isolated from every other. Confidentiality is treated as a first principle, consistent with Resilience Guard's practice.

Can we use our own scenarios and keep ownership of our content?

Yes. The scenario and playbook library is client-owned and editable on demand, so exercises reflect your real risk landscape, sector and language of operation. Your content remains yours.

Who needs a licence, and is it suitable for the board?

Resilience Arena is licensed by named user for the senior cohort that matters in a crisis: the resilience and crisis team, the executive committee and board, and the cross-functional crisis roles. A simplified board mode lets executives take part and read clear results without training, while read-only auditor access is provided for assurance functions.

Can it run on our own infrastructure?

Yes. The platform is available as a hosted service operated by Resilience Guard, or as an on-premise installation on infrastructure you control, for organisations whose policy or regulator requires it.

How do we get started?

Most organisations begin with a confidential walkthrough tailored to their context, followed by a scoped pilot with a real group that establishes a baseline and produces board-ready evidence within a short timeframe. Resilience Guard's advisory team responds within 24 hours.

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SPARROW Project: Digital twins and predictive risk for urban crisis preparedness | Resilience Guard

European research

SPARROW: digital twins and predictive risk for urban crisis preparedness.

Resilience Guard holds a funded, named role in the SPARROW consortium under Horizon Europe, grant agreement 101168499, a 36 months project. Here is what the project does, what we contribute, and what it sharpens in the consulting our clients receive.

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The project

What is SPARROW?

SPARROW aims to transform crisis preparedness in European cities through dynamic digital twins and predictive risk assessment technologies. By orchestrating multi source datasets, past event learnings and expert insight, it lets cities assess vulnerabilities and test crisis responses in realistic digital breakdown scenarios, feeding decision support systems for civil protection, critical infrastructure operators and regional authorities during high impact emergencies, including digital failures caused by extreme climate events.

Programme

Horizon Europe

Grant agreement

No 101168499

Duration

36 months

Our role

Funded consortium partner

The SPARROW contribution chain: the European mission, the Resilience Guard role, and the practice areas it strengthens.

Our role

What Resilience Guard contributes

The Vulnerability Assessment Synoptic Engine. Resilience Guard leads the development of VASE, one of the core innovations of the project: a real time vulnerability assessment engine.

Interdependence, evaluated dynamically. VASE evaluates the states of interdependent assets dynamically as scenarios unfold, exactly the cascading dependency problem that defines modern disruption.

From simulation to decision support. The engine feeds decision support for the authorities and operators who must act while the situation is still developing.

From research to practice

Why this matters to our clients

SPARROW sharpens the two disciplines our clients exercise most: scenario based crisis exercising, where realistic digital breakdown scenarios are our daily craft, and dependency driven risk management, where interdependent asset thinking separates a register from a real risk picture.

Project identity and consortium

The SPARROW project, officially

Official project website Project and consortium on CORDIS

The full, current list of SPARROW consortium beneficiaries is maintained on the project's CORDIS record.

Funded by the European Union under grant agreement No 101168499. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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