Past Event
Biological threats and EU preparedness: How can we make the system more resilient?
Can the EU handle biological threats?
VIDEO & AUDIO RECORDINGS
COVID-19 has opened everyone’s eyes to a different kind of system vulnerability that we had not considered before. At this event speakers from different areas look at the multiple factors surrounding biological threats, ranging from bioterrorism and what we know about non-state actors, to EU’s response to a pandemic threat by developing vaccines.
Following these different lines, we aimed to answer the question at the core: How can we make the system more resilient from biological threats?
This event was co-organised in collaboration with Hybrid CoE.
Schedule
12:30-12:40
12:40-13:40
Presentations and panel discussion
Chair: Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director
Magnus Normark, Senior analyst, FOI - CBRN Defence and security
Ilkka Salmi, Disaster Preparedness and Prevention, Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), European Commission
Anne Sénéquier, Research fellow and Co-director, IRIS
Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior Fellow
13:40-14:00
Q&A
www.sli.do using #biothreats
14:00
End
Speakers

Maria Demertzis
Deputy Director

Magnus Normark
Senior analyst, FOI - CBRN Defence and security

Ilkka Salmi
Disaster Preparedness and Prevention, Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), European Commission

Jukka Savolainen
Director COI VR, Hybrid CoE

Anne Sénéquier
Research fellow and Co-director, IRIS

Reinhilde Veugelers
Senior Fellow
Location & Contact
Katja Knezevic
[email protected]