Given the security challenges that have emerged in the international environment with the outbreak of the COVID pandemic and further highlighted during Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine (an action that had a mostly regional impact), a new project to increase the resilience of SEDM members was proposed.

The proposal’s main objective is to strengthen regional security and defence cooperation. At this international social and political moment, it is opportune to initiate a project of this caliber with resilience at the center of concerns. The biggest added value is the need for consensus at the level of internal and international levels.

The project involve work around the concept of resilience from the UN, NATO, SEDM-based line requirements for national resilience to measure the level of preparedness.

The project is tailored to complement, revitalize and boost the accession process for the SEDM member states that are still in various stages of accession to EU and NATO.

The project can be seen as a tool that SEDM, as initiative, can be grow using research and databases.