RBI, as an approach initially developed in and for Oil and Gas Industry has changed a lot in the year 2019. New industrial and international/European standards (such as EN 16991:2018 or new ISO standards, or the less recent API and ASME standards) have been brought into the modern practice. New tools corresponding to these documents and the overall Industry 4.0 trends have been developed, and, last but least; the application area has been broadened to areas such as power and paper industry. Read more about RBI and this upcoming course in the PDF course agenda linked here: RBI 2019 Course Agenda

Event Details

 

The joint final conference of the SmartResilience and SAYSO projects will be hosted by the National University of Public Service in Budapest. The objectives of the joint conference are to present and discuss their respective outcomes as well as to discuss next steps. The conference will involve practitioners, developers, technology suppliers, and standardization and procurement specialists, as well as decision-makers, to find the best ways to harmonize, integrate, and enhance the projects’ outcomes in order to achieve tangible impact at the European level.

 

Registration

This event is open to all interested stakeholders, contributors, and participants from other projects and institutions and is free of charge. Register here: http://www.sr-sayso-conference.evenium.net

• Registration Fee: None (includes lunch and coffee breaks during the conference)
• Additional Costs: Conference participants are responsible for covering their own travel, lodging, and associated costs.

 

Deadline: March 31, 2019

 

 

Call for contributions/presentations

The SmartResilience and SAYSO projects are seeking contributions/presentations related to critical infrastructure resilience and protection and to situational awareness systems in civil protection.

 

Proposals for contributions, including title, authors' names, and a short abstract (max. 1500 characters) should be sent to SAYSO-SmartResilience-Conference@eu-vri.eu using the application form available for download below.

 

Deadline: March 7, 2019

Accepted Notification: March 2019

Application form

 

*Please Note: Contributors/presenters should also register for the days of the conference which they will be attending!

 

 

Call for posters

Poster presentations will be displayed during a 90-minute poster session with the attendant author(s) available to discuss and present the poster (e.g. from EU or other projects). These will be scheduled on the afternoon of Monday, April 15, 2019.

 

Abstracts for posters should be sent to SAYSO-SmartResilience-Conference@eu-vri.eu using the application form available for download below.

 

Deadline: March 7, 2019

Accepted Notification: March 2019

Application form

 

*Please Note: Poster presenters should also register for the days of the conference which they will be attending!

 

 

  Conference program

The final program is available for download here.

  

 

The projects

The SmartResilience project provides a new indicator-based methodology for assessing and measuring the resilience level of critical infrastructures, such as energy and water supply, transportation networks and similar.

http://www.smartresilience.eu-vri.eu/

http://www.resiliencetool.eu-vri.eu/

 

The SAYSO project aims to allow European civil protection and emergency responder organisations to procure, at a competitive price, innovative Situational Awareness systems and tools matching their needs. The production of the specifications of such solutions in SAYSO also involves suppliers, public procurement authorities and policy makers.

https://www.sayso-project.eu/

 

 

 

Access map

For information on how to reach the venue, click HERE.

Lodging

 

The conference organizing committee is not recommending any specific hotels for conference attendees, as we have decided this is best left to the personal tastes and preferences of each participant. However, there are many good options available near the venue, and any hotel in or near the city center should also be close to either a direct or connecting public transit line with a stop close to the conference center.

 

An example of hotel options available near the venue is available through Google's hotel search tool.

 

 

 

 

 

The SmartResilience and SAYSO projects have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under the Grant Agreement Numbers 700621 and 740872, respectively. The support provided by the European Commission for these projects and for their joint final conference is acknowledged and greatly appreciated.

Somik Chakravarty, Project Manager at Steinbeis R-Tech received the Jean Bricard Prize 2019 for his PhD thesis in Mechanical properties of cohesionless and cohesive bulk solids: transition from non-cohesive to cohesive powders. The PhD was supported by European Union Marie Curie Actions FP7 T-MAPPP and conducted at the Sorbonne Universités - UTC and INERIS, France.

Association Française d'Etudes & de Recherches sur les Aérosols (ASFERA) as a part of its mission to promote research in the field of aerosol science, awards each year the Jean Bricard Prize to a young researcher in France. More information on the prize can be found on the ASFERA website (https://www.asfera.org/fr/prixjeanbricard/presentation) 

These newly posted deliverables are:

• D3.6 - Guideline for assessing, predicting and monitoring resilience of Smart Critical Infrastructures
• D4.4 - Expert workshops for definition, selection and refinement of indicators

MySmartResilience Tool

A recent update to the SmartResilience web interface includes a new section of the tool called MySmartResilience that enables personalized data entry, analysis, and saving.

Project stakeholders should contact smartresilience-core@eu-vri.eu to gain access to this section of the tool.

SmartResilience Welcome Web Page Updates

Two recent updates have been made to the Welcome web page of the SmartResilience tool:

1. Testimonials have been added to share end-user and project participant experiences with and impressions of SmartResilience.

2. A Feedback Survey is now available via the “Tell us your opinion” button and directly via this link: http://www.smartresilience2.eu-vri.eu/Survey_Run.aspx?ID=978. We ask that interested parties please help us by taking some time (estimated 10-15 minutes) to complete this survey to help us improve the SmartResilience tool and potential applications. This survey can be distributed to anyone who may be interested in providing feedback. There is also an opportunity included in this survey to provide a testimonial for the project.

 €100 billion for FP9 "Horizon Europe"

The EC announced the proposed budget of €100 billion and the name of the next EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme: Horizon Europe (2021-2027).

The new model of “Membership-as-a-Service” means that the members can now choose between the fixed membership fee and “paying-per-service” and can, thus, participate in, e.g.:
1. Setting up new EU and industrial projects (large proposals prepared in 2018 e.g. for DRS calls)
2. Preparation of the new ISO 31050 standard (“Emerging risks and resilience”) and other standards
3. Collaboration agreements with leading US, Chinese and Japanese institutions (e.g. with Argonne NL or Beijing Academy of Science and Technology)
4. Sharing tools and resources developed by EU-VRi (databases, project results, reports…) free of charge.

This course will be pursued also in 2018 and this opens new horizons for further scientific and business activities for EU-VRi and all its members.

ResiStand’s partners worked with these communities to identify standardisation gaps and to create a prioritised roadmap for new initiatives. The roadmap was complemented by a critical evaluation of standards as a tool to improve disaster resilience. Additionally, ResiStand implemented a pre-standardisation process that supports the development of standards.

The overall objective of ResiStand was to identify new ways to improve the crisis management and disaster resilience capabilities of the European Union and of individual Member States through standards. This objective was achieved by:

• Proposing new standardisation activities that can advance and improve disaster resilience.
• Providing a better understanding of the potential of standardisation as a tool for improving disaster resilience.
• Presenting a new, sustainable process for better and faster capitalizing on the potential of standardisation.

Early 2018, the European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management (EU-VRi)  and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of strengthening their collaboration in the field of resilience of critical infrastructures.

Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research national laboratory operated by the University of Chicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy.

This new collaboration aims to develop the mechanisms and processes to promote research, academic exchange and cooperation for the mutual goal of improving safety, security and sustainability aspects of resilience of critical infrastructures. This exchange of information will include resilience related indicators, assessment methods, tools, auditing for the improvement of protection of critical infrastructures.

SAF€RA has launched its fourth joint call for transnational, collaborative research projects. The call aims to foster collaboration between researchers from different countries in Europe and from different scientific disciplines, in order to improve safety and the management of technological risks.

The call topics are:

• T1: New technologies and the effects of major changes in industry
• T2: Measuring and monitoring safety performance

Funding available

The total available budget for the 2018 call is approx. 1.6 M€. Two forms of funding are available:

• research grants for researchers from universities, institutes, research organizations and public firms;
• person-months for personnel from certain participating institutes and research organizations.

Most projects funded within this call will include 2 to 4 partners, for a duration between 12 and 36 months and funding between 20 and 150 k€ per project partner. The call aims to fund mainly applied research carried out in universities or research institutes, though contributions from industry are also eligible. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged. Cooperation and joint activities between different consortia funded within the call will be encouraged.

Call timeline

The 2018 joint call will use a two-stage application process with a pre-proposal mechanisms for the first stage. The calendar of the various stages is shown below.

Call documentation

The following documents are available:

• The Guidelines for proposers contains a description of the topics covered by the 2018 joint call, information on the participating funding organizations and the budgets available, and other important information for researchers wishing to submit a proposal.
• The Guidelines for evaluators are written for the experts who will evaluate the projects, but will be useful to researchers who wish to understand the evaluation criteria.
• The pre-proposal form is available in Microsoft Word (.doc) or OpenOffice/LibreOffice (.odt) formats.
• Templates for the SAF€RA progress reports, which must be sent to the SAF€RA Call Secretariat by the project coordinator on behalf of the project consortium. The mid-term reporting template should be submitted halfway through your project, assuming the project has a duration greater than 18 months. A final administrative report should be sent by all projects, within three months of the end of the project. (This report is distinct from the final scientific report which most projects will be producing as one of their deliverables.)

A web-based matchmaking facility is available to help researchers wishing to submit projects as a consortium to find partners.

Contact information

For general queries concerning the 2018 joint call, please email the call secretariat at call-secretariat@safera.eu. Make sure you read the call documents above and check the list of frequently asked questions first.

If you have questions concerning the eligibility criteria of specific funding organizations, please check the contact information provided in the Guidelines for proposers document, which can be downloaded above.

For more information, please visit the call website at www.call.safera.eu.

Resilience Workshop organized by DRS-7&14 Projects (Darwin, Improver, Resilens, Resolute, SmartResilience, SMR) in conjunction with CoU meeting had been finished. More than 140 participants gathered during 2-day Resilience Workshop discussed the following items:

Session 1: Towards the aligned European Resilience Management Guidelines: How to achieve alignment and interoperability?

Session 2: Resilience assessment method and indicators: How to define them? How to monitor them? How to implement them?

Session 3: Tools & methods for resilience operationalization

Session 4: Application cases – are the newly developed methods, guidelines & tools implemented/analyzed? 

Session 5: Importance of international/global cooperation in the area of resilience – How to enhance it in the future?

Session 6: Alignment of the Resilience Workshop findings/items with IMG-S - EARTO WG Security Research approach

Furthermore, in the Interactive Space audience had an opportunity to become familiar with projects' outcomes and dissemination materials. Also, thanks to presence of Nexus Perspectivity Challenge Game, experts had a chance to be put in the shoes of key decision makers. 

The most important findings of the workshop agreed among projects coordinators have been summarized and can be found here. 

In order to download the book of abstracts please click on the picture below.

Below are uploaded presentation slides as .pdf files for sessions held during the Resilience Workshop. The content, style or layout of the slides should not be changed without the permission of the authors.

Session 1: Towards the aligned European Resilience Management Guidelines: How to achieve alignment and interoperability?
1) J.M. Sarriegi: European Resilience Management Guideline (SMR)
2) S. Jacobzone: Achieving Resilience: sharing best practice, value and limit of guidelines (OECD) - not yet available
3) D. Lange: Integration of risk and resilience management (IMPROVER) - not yet available
4) W. Hynes: European Resilience Management Guidelines (ERMG) for the operators and owners of Critical Infrastructure (CI) (RESILENS)
5) M. Branlat: Practical interventions to support critical infrastructures in enhancing their resilience (DARWIN) - not yet available
6) E. Gaitanidou: European Resilience Managment Guidelines and their adaptation for UTS (RESOLUTE) - not yet available

Session 2: Resilience assessment method and indicators: How to define them? How to monitor them? How to implement them?

1) R. Almeida: Assessing resilience based on the ISO/IEC 33000 standard series (IMPROVER)
2) A. Jovanovic & L. Bodsberg: Which indicators can tell us if critical infrastructure is resilient? How do we know the ‘’quality of indicators?’’ (SmartResilience)
3) J.M. Sarieggi: Indicators for assessing the resilience-building process in cities (SMR)
4) D. Verner, F. Petit: Assessing Resilience: from Facilities to Regions (ANL)
5) E. Bellini: Exploiting SmartResilience indicators in RESOLUTE Resilience Assessment Framework (RESOLUTE)  

Session 3: Tools & methods for resilience operationalization

1) G. Rafaeli: The RESILENS Toolkit – Decision Support for CI operators and owners (RESILENS)
2) R. Almeida: A web tool for assessing resilience using any framework (IMPROVER) - tool presented online: http://improver-inov.herokuapp.com/users/sign_in
3) P. Nesi, A.Drosou: Evidence-driven Collaborative Resilience Assessment and Management Support System for Urban Transport System, A VA Platform for Personalized Crowd, Fleet & Resources Management (RESOLUTE)
4) U. Barzelay: Why and how to use Interactive data visualization in resilience related projects? (SmartResilience)
5) C. Grimes: Overview of the resilience tools developed and their intersections (SMR) - not yet available
6) I. Kozine: Capabilities-based approach to building and maintaining resilience

Session 4: Application cases – are the newly developed methods, guidelines & tools implemented/analyzed?

1) A. Corrigan: The RESILENS Pilot Demonstrations – Testing the Toolkit across three CI Sectors in Ireland, Portugal and Germany (RESILENS) 
2) E. Bellini: Florence pilot case (City of Florence) (RESOLUTE)
3) Z. Szekely, I. Macsári: Case study DELTA and the significance of the SmartResilience project for the aviation security sector (SmartResilience) - will be published later
4) V. Latinos: Local Resilience Planning: A review of methodologies adopted for the SMR pilot implementation process (SMR)
5) P. Berggren: DARWIN - Pilot application in Sweden involving among others health care, public sector and transport services (DARWIN)

Session 5: Importance of international/global cooperation in the area of resilience – How to enhance it in the future?
1) W. McNamara: US DHS views on critical infrastructure resilience - not yet available
2) S. Jacobzone: Application of resilience concepts: the case of critical infrastructure - not yet available
3) I. Linkov: Resilience: State of Science and State of Applications in the USA
4) F. Petit, D. Verner: Resilience Indicators and Interdependencies: Need to Promote a Global Approach
5) C. Grimes: The role of local and regional networks and partnerships in resilience-building (SMR) - not yet available
6) J. Kieran: Enhancing International Collaboration through DARWIN’s Community of Practitioners (DARWIN) & movie (click here)

Session 6: Alignment of the Resilience Workshop findings/items with IMG-S - EARTO WG Security Research approach

1) C. Fuggini: Joint Position Paper on Resilience in Security Research

The 5^th SAF€RA Symposium will take place in Bilbao, Spain, on May 18-19, 2017. It is to present and discuss results from the first two SAF€RA joint calls, give an insight to research needs in industrial safety, and provide details of the 3^rd SAF€RA joint call.

The draft programme is available here and the key information can be found hereunder:

• Registration

Registration in the SAF€RA Final Conference has to be made before April 21, 2017:

http://safera-symposium.evenium.net

The registration is free of charge. Only the dinner on May 18 and the lunch on May 19 will be at your own cost.

• Call for abstract

Presentations dedicated to scientific topics and with wish to open new collaborations are encouraged.

If you intend to make a presentation, please submit your abstract at the following link https://goo.gl/forms/nTbpYTxMdo4ACGGm1

Deadline to submit an abstract: April 7, 2017.

• Proposed accommodation

HOTEL MIRÓ * * * *  -  160 m from IBERDROLA Tower

http://www.mirohotelbilbao.com/

HOTEL NH VILLA DE BILBAO * * * *  - 700 m to the IBERDROLA Tower

https://www.nh-collection.com/es/hotel/nh-collection-villa-de-bilbao

HOTEL NH DEUSTO * * * - 650 m from IBERDROLA  Tower (8 min)

https://www.nh-hoteles.es/hotel/nh-bilbao-deusto

HOTEL Ercilla **** , 15 min walking to the Iberdrola Tower

http://www.hotelercilla.com/

• Contact

Ms. Maria Nieves de la Peña
Osalan - Instituto Vasco de Seguridad e Higiene Laborales
Camino de la Dinamita, s/n
48903 Barakaldo (Spain)
T: +34944032145 / E: osalantpr16ba@euskadi.eus

• Programme Committee

Olivier Salvi, EU-VRi, Germany, Symposium Chair

Maria Nieves de la Peña, OSALAN, Spain, Symposium Co-Chair

Carita Aschan, FIOH, Finland

Eric Marsden, FonCSI; France

Kai Holtappels, BAM, Germany

• About SAF€RA:

SAF€RA originated as an ERA-NET project entitled 'Coordination of European Research on Industrial Safety towards Smart and Sustainable Growth' that was funded for three years by the European Commission in the 7th Framework Programme (Grant agreement no: 291812). Under the ERA-NET scheme it identified areas of joint interest and expected synergies of collaborative research, and stimulated transnational research on industrial safety.

SAF€RA brings dynamism into European research on industrial safety where it cannot be tackled at the national level. SAF€RA will continue in context of the European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety, ETPIS, which initiated the original SAF€RA project.

Former Chairman: Jürgen Lexow, juergen.lexow@bam.de

Vice-Chairman: Olivier Salvi, salvi@eu-vri.eu

SAF€RA homepage: http://www.safera.industrialsafety-tp.org/

Call Homepage: http://call.safera.eu/

ERA-NET scheme: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/coordination/about-era_en.html

European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety (ETPIS): http://www.industrialsafety-tp.org/

Special Issue: societal safety, critical infrastructure reliability and related intersectoral governance

Societal safety refers to the consolidation of society’s robust “normal” functioning and includes the prevention and absence of major disruptions within and across key sectors. When failures occur, societal safety incorporates the ability to respond to and cope with external or internal stresses, such as natural hazards, terrorism and major industrial accidents. Critical infrastructures are the lifelines of modern societies and their reliability is essential for societal safety. Sectors, organizations and populations are organized around the expectation that infrastructures function, typically with near 100 per cent reliability. Their success—their usefulness and high reliability —produces societal vulnerability and challenges in terms of governance, as dependence on them is engrained in the fabric of society.  Joint and coordinated efforts from different disciplines are required to maintain societal safety in general and critical infrastructure reliability in particular as both the vulnerabilities and the resources for resilience straddle organizational, sectoral, jurisdictional and national boundaries.

This Special Issue invites studies that advance our understanding of societal safety and our capability for preventive and responsive action. We seek to elaborate societal safety around two particular foci: as societal issues (matters concerning policy and regulation) and as operational issues (the operation and emergency management in infrastructure sectors along with their other key functions) and, importantly, how the two foci are intertwined. At least two important trends challenge both:

1) Neoliberal forms of governance have led to more fragmented organizations while sectors of society have become more tightly coupled.

2) Digitalization has introduced new, often intractable, interdependencies and couplings, increasing complexity and the potential for domino- or cascade effects. It opens up new vulnerabilities related to intentional and accidental events but also new means for risk monitoring and coordination in emergencies.

While the dependency on highly reliable critical infrastructures and digital technologies may invite models of societal safety based on strict rules and regulation, the last decades of safety and reliability theory has increasingly been concerned with how system variability is handled in dynamic ways and how situational adaptations and adjustments can be resources for resilience. Our Special Issue specifically encourages reflection on the boundaries of this adaptability, the managing of adaptability, and its regulation.

The special issue invites papers discussing societal safety as operational and societal issues. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in papers discussing the inter-organizational/inter-sectoral management of societal safety, case studies of critical infrastructures and organizations/agencies responsible for societal safety, resilience based perspectives on societal safety, perspectives on the management on the societal interconnectedness of risk and on the relationship between safety and security. We are also interested in theoretical and empirical contributions addressing the implications of digitalization and neoliberal governance (New Public Management, managerialism, public-private partnerships etc) for these topics. 

Submission Method

The length of submitted papers will be between 7,000 and 10,000 words. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under review by other journals. Papers using previously published conference papers should not exceed 20% similarity.

All Full length papers should be submitted via the Safety Science submission system. While submitting a paper to the special issue, please choose the article type “Societal Safety” otherwise your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript. All submissions will go through the journal’s standard peer review process. Criteria for acceptance include originality, contribution, scientific merit and relevance to the theme of the Special Issue. For author guidelines, please visit the website of the journal at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/safety-science

Deadlines:

Submissions of full papers are due via Safety Science’s submission portal on February 1, 2017. Papers must be in accordance with the ordinary format requirements of Safety Science.

We also invite interested authors to submit abstracts or extended abstracts (by email, max 1000 words) to the editors by October 15, 2016. This is not mandatory for full paper submission.

Managing guest editor:

Dr. Emery Roe, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California, Berkeley, US, emery.roe@berkeley.edu

Guest editors:

Dr. Petter G. Almklov, NTNU Social Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, pettera@svt.ntnu.no

Kristine V. Størkersen, NTNU Social Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, kristine.vedal.storkersen@apertura.ntnu.no

Dr. Stian Antonsen, Department of Safety Research, SINTEF Technology and Society, Norway, Stian.Antonsen@sintef.no

 European SME week
“Helping Europe’s entrepreneurs reach new heights”
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How do SMEs benefit from standards?

Within a fortnight we will be celebrating the European SME week! A great opportunity to promote how standards help SMEs to do better business. This year’s theme is “Helping Europe’s entrepreneurs reach new heights”. CEN and CENELEC together with SBS (Small Business Standards) would like to showcase how standards can help SMEs to reach new heights.

Are you an SME, take this opportunity to promote your business! Send a quote (max. 100 words) and share why you use standards and/or why you are involved in standardization. Maybe you contributed to the development of a particular standard? Tell all about it! Your activities will be promoted through social media and on website to kick-start the SME week on 21 November.

Need inspiration for a quote? Maybe these tips will help:

1: There are many benefits that SMEs can gain from using standards. Knowing which standards to use, and how to apply them in the correct way, is vital for the success of your business.
Why do you use standards?  (e.g. to ensure quality/safety of products/services, compatibility between product/components, market access, meet legislation, ...)
Which standards are relevant to your company?

2: It is also important to understand how standards are made, and how SMEs can contribute to the standardization process.
Why did you get involved in European standardization?
What did you get out of this involvement? ?  (e.g.  networking, advance knowledge of new technologies and innovation, ...)

3: SMEs face specific challenges (problems, obstacles…) to participate in standardization (e.g. they often don’t have the time or resources to get as involved as they would wish)
What challenges if any did you meet?
How do you think the standards organizations (or anyone else) can help?

4: And, don’t forget to present yourself and your company (name, company name and main activity, number of employees). If you could add a picture, that would be nice too  

CEN, CENELEC and SBS are looking forward to receiving your quotes by November 16 at SME-NEWS@LISTSERV.CENCENELEC.EU.

Unless explicitly mentioned, CEN/CENELEC and SBS understand that they have agreement to publish and share the quotes/pictures received.

In the occasion of the "40 years anniversary of the disaster of Seveso*", The European Commission would like to invite you to the conference Resilience and Technological Risk: comparative experiences after the 40 years of disaster of Seveso to analyse in-depth the effectiveness of the adoption of the European Directives and by local governments and debate how “resilience actions” have been lasting uninterrupted for forty years. 

Experts of the European Commission and EU regional authorities will discuss how risk management and prevention have been improved thanks to the synergy between Institutional and socio-economics regional and local structures as well as the new perspectives: ranging from environmental restoration, scientific research and safety regulations. 

Confirmation to the participation is required by June 20th, 2016 to silvia.dognini@flanet.org (specifing surname, first name, date of birth, type and number of document, organization). 

*The accident of Seveso (July 1976) marked the start of a series of “resilience actions” which has been lasting uninterrupted for forty years thanks to an active participation of the civil society. 

Informations:

40°  Anniversary after Seveso: 
Resilience and Technological Risk: comparative experiences 40 years after the disaster in Seveso 
29/06 at Committee of the Regions 
Bâtiment Jacques Delors, Rue Belliard 99-101 - Bruxelles 
Room JDE53 (5th floor of the JDE building) 

R-Tech is going to take a leading role in the project by developing the Nano-Risk for the identification and monitoring of nanotechnology emerging risks. In addition, R-Tech will consolidate the caLIBRAte Nano-Risk Governance framework by developing the System of Systems (SoS) platforms. The framework models will be linked to the 10 steps of the ERMF framework developed within the iNTeg-Risk project and support the Cooper-style stage gate innovation model as a special interface for different stakeholders.