News

Presentation of EmerGent at CAP workshop

The CAP implementation workshop is the most important event for organisations that worldwide make use (or plan to use) of the OASIS CAP protocol. This year event was held in Rome at the Istituto Superiore Anticendi of the Italian Fire corps. In the framework of the presentation jointly made by IES Solutions and the Civil Protection of Sicily Region, EMERGENT has been introduced as a project that, dealing with social media, delivers CAP messages in PSAP control rooms.
You may see the recording of the presentation here.

Radio interview with Therese Friberg and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch

Therese Friberg and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Koch gave an interview in German about our survey results and how emergency services can be supported by social media.

For further information please check: http://www.euranetplus.de/2015/08/24/rettungskraefte-koennten-bald-von-social-media-profitieren/

Video of the EmerGent IT-System Architecture published

Look at our new video on the EmerGent IT-System Architecture for C2A and A2C.

Deliverables about technical components have been finalized

Deliverables 5.4 and 5.5 have been finished by the EmerGent consortium. The Topics dealt with refer to Information gathering (D5.4) and Information Routing (D5.5). You can have a closer look on the summaries in the Publications part of our website.

Emergency Services’ use of Social Media in Emergencies

We conducted a survey for Emergency Services to evaluate Social Media in emergency situations. Now you can find a graphical presentation of our findings from the survey under Press Releases.

For more information click HERE.

Our first Newsletter is available

Our first newsletter representing the findings of the first year has
been sent out and is available here:

http://newsletters.fp7-emergent.eu/t/j-e-duhkuul-mairgtu-td/

Please register to achieve our next newsletter coming soon:

http://newsletters.fp7-emergent.eu/h/j/20B95B63ADF73631

EmerGent at the Open Source Intelligence Dissemination on 8th of July

EmerGent will be presented at the Open Source Intelligence Dissemination Conference in Rome on 8th of July.

More Information can be found here.

EmerGent at the ISCRAM EU Project Symposium

We are proud to present the EmerGent project and our objectives on the EU Project Symposium at the ISCRAM conference at 27th May 2015.

EmerGent on EENA Conference

EENA brings together European emergency services, public authorities, researchers and industry representatives every year. This year Thomas Spielhofer and Gasper Bizjak presented most recent findings from EmerGent to show the potential of our project to a sophisticated audience.

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D7.6 has been finalized

This document provides a description of the European Data Protection and Privacy laws relevant to the EmerGent project. The EU Data Protection Directive is discussed, which acts as a guideline for data protection laws in each EU country. The laws based upon this directive in a number of EU countries are investigated as well. Further information are available in the summary of the Deliverable.