SUPER is a joint effort of social media experts (incl. social network providers) and security experts (incl. security and civil protection agencies), towards introducing a holistic, integrated and privacy-friendly approach to the use of social media in emergencies and security incidents

EmerGent aims at strengthening the role of European companies dealing with services and products related to the aimed research and development results. EmerGent will perform studies on the communication behaviour via social media in an emergency situation and its impact on emergency management procedures with citizens and public authorities (emergency management services) involved

The final goal of the EPISECC project is to create an integrated pan-European crisis and disaster response capacity. A common information space design is an integral part of these joint initiatives and EPISECC’ results will definitely contribute in the “de-fragmentation” process.

The project is based on technology that allows to send local voice announcements directly to mobile devices and further to use automatically its loud speakers but only needs a mobile network corverage and no further infrastructure for accomplishment. Aim of the project is - besides others - to develop a market-ready product, that can guarantees voice announcements to defined but heterogenous person groups: for different work stations/ positions within the szenario dispatchers are able to setup several dispatcher-names and callback numbers. Therefore various voice announcements can be adressed to various person groups which also receive automatically the dispatcher name, the callback number and furthermore the type of voice announcement (e.g. emergency massage). Besides other information the dispatcher gets the message how many persons received his voice announcement. This is of importance especially in context of disaster management where having a good overview about the number of people that have actually received an information is crucial.
The characteristics of the market ready product are the simplicity in regard of its implementation as cloud service, needs no expensive infrastructure, can be used immediately, low costs for the end user (paying by telefone invoice).

CellChat is a global, public chat service with self-organising, topic-related rooms (“cells”) based on modern text analysis and “machine learning” methods. The focus is on the regional and nationwide networking of people with similar interests for spontaneous conversation. The geographical and content relevance with regard to the app user is calculated for all cells. The starting point for the user is a personal cell cloud. More relevant cells form the centre of the cloud. New or trending cells are highlighted, active cells are shown bigger. Rapidly growing cells divide into regional sub-cells, isolated cells merge with national cells. Profile details are mostly created automatically on the basis of current chat posts, such as a topic cloud under the banner “You are what you write”. Apart from a search function for cell contents and hashtags, an internal recommendation system supports the networking of users and the finding of cells on the basis of similar contributions.

BESECU (Behavior, Security and Culture) was an investigation of cross-cultural differences of human behavior in crisis situations in order to better tailor security-related communication, instructions and procedures. The BESECU consortium includes researchers and SMEs, as well as first responder organisations from eight different countries.

MyHealthMyData (MHMD) is a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action which aims at fundamentally changing the way sensitive data are shared. MHMD is poised to be the first open biomedical information network centred on the connection between organisations and individuals, encouraging hospitals to start making anonymised data available for open research, while prompting citizens to become the ultimate owners and controllers of their health data. MHMD is intended to become a true information marketplace, based on new mechanisms of trust and direct, value-based relationships between EU citizens, hospitals, research centres and businesses.

The EMPATTICS project (EMpowering PAtients for a beTTer Information and improvement of the Communication Systems) is a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) cofound action of the Horizon 2020 built upon an international partnership formed by 7 entities from 5 different European countries: Spain, Denmark, France, UK and Ireland. It aims to pursue an ambitious objective: to enhance self-management for people with chronic illnesses through innovative ICT tools and test them at a large scale and integrated as part of the strategic development of health policies in all buyer regions. The goal is a system that will be broadly applicable to a variety of disease types.

The project searches for new technologies to assist chronic patients to SELF-MANAGE their pain. By the use of ICTs chronic patients can continue independent living at home even if they have physical disabilities. RELIEF is poised to make major progresses to improve health outcomes for individuals experiencing symptoms and chronic pain conditions, by translating evidence-based therapy validated by the medical services to home settings as well as advancing available and affordable technologies.
Advancements in self-management strategies that range from short-term therapeutic regimens to long-term symptom monitoring will enhance medical treatment.

Consortium of healthcare procurers that aims for robust monitoring and communication systems that connect patients and carers. They should provide early warning of acute deterioration of patients’ health condition in and out of hospital, and learn and adapt to different individuals in different situations. An approach based on wearable sensors, self-learning adaptive algorithms and big data analysis will be used.