Three days in Tallinn on the systems that keep a fight sustainable once the shooting starts: supply routes, medical evacuation, communications, and the civilian infrastructure that carries all of it.
The sustainment functions behind the front line: fuel, supply routes, medical evacuation, communications, and the civilian infrastructure that carries all of it. If the rear fails, the front cannot hold.
Cut the power in a city for six hours. Not the internet: the hospitals, the water pumps, the trains, the ports.
Who answers first, civilian or military, and do they actually have each other’s number?
That is the rear area: the space where societies keep functioning, or do not, while the front is fought forward. CE26 spends three days finding out what holds.
View the operation →NATO defines seven baseline requirements for civil preparedness. Each depends on the others. CE26’s scenario-based training is built around what happens when one gives way.
CE26 runs as a single arc across three phases. The provisional agenda below will keep tightening as speakers confirm.
// PROVISIONAL AGENDA. SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS CE26 APPROACHES.
More speakers will be confirmed as CE26 approaches.
Coordinate policy, public services and decision-making under pressure.
Protect lives, support crisis response and keep communities informed.
Maintain the systems societies depend on, from energy to communications.
Keep people, goods and support moving when routes are under strain.
Sustain care, capacity and coordination during disruption.
Provide services, resources and specialist expertise that strengthen preparedness.
Bring analysis, lessons and methods that improve shared understanding.
Connect communities, support vulnerable groups and strengthen social resilience.
Support planning, coordination and operational readiness with civilian partners.
CE26 takes place in Tallinn from 23 to 25 November 2026. Full venue and travel details are shared directly with registered participants.
Registration for Common Effort 2026 is now open. Complete your registration through the official registration portal.
If you received an official invitation, you will also be sent a direct personal registration link by email.
Roads to Resilience: Sustaining Futures
COMMON EFFORT