KATRETTER is a professional service for rescue services to reach and coordinate volunteers quickly and legally. The KATRETTER system ensures quick and easy alerting of volunteers via smartphone app using standardized technologies. The volunteers are activated in emergencies or crisis situations according to their respective knowledge and skills.

Within the framework of the Fraunhofer Academy, the business unit ESPRI – collaborative safety and security developed training courses for specialists and users in the CyberSecurity learning laboratory with the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW Berlin). The Cyber Security Learning Lab of the Fraunhofer Academy is a cooperation between Fraunhofer and selected universities of applied sciences.

The warning system EUWARN has been used by the European Commission since 2019 to warn employees on its premises in the event of danger. The warnings are location-based and reache those affected directly via smartphone app.

KATWARN is a new type of warning system that sends a message to affected groups of the population via smartphone app, text or e-mail when an incident or dangerous situation occurs. It supplements information provided by the police, fire service or media.

The ERIC project aims to improve the care of patients before and after intensive medical treatment. Around 2.1 million patients are treated in intensive care units in Germany every year and almost half a million are ventilated. Intensive care treatment often leads to critical and stressful long-term consequences for patients and their relatives. The aim of the project is to apply scientific findings consistently and to connect patients to a new telemedical intensive care network.

MyRehab is a therapy platform for personalized therapeutic support that is tailored to the capabilities of the patient. The telemedicine platform is designed to motivate people with limited movement in particular to integrate more movement into their everyday lives and to promote an active, healthy lifestyle.

The goal of the ForAn project is to increase the participation of German utilizers in projects of the European security research program. To this end, the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS is expanding the TopicMatcher, the research portal for European research projects, developed in the fit4sec and BERKoS projects, and adapting it for the goals of the ForAn project.

The aim of the BMBF-funded project "Psychosocial situation picture of the population during the corona pandemic" (LaBeCo) is the retrospective collection and systematization of psychosocial situation information for Germany during the corona crisis.

Every year, the Dominican Republic suffers from floods and other natural events that often have catastrophic consequences. Strategies for effective population warning via the existing local early warning system were already developed in a previous project in 2017. The goal now is to further strengthen the early warning system.

In order for control centers and situation centers to maintain an overview despite the increasing amount of information due to more and more available data sources such as cameras or sensor data, Fraunhofer FOKUS is developing a semantic and intelligent dashboard. It will not only display information, but also enable collaboration and interaction with other stakeholders (politics, citizens, emergency forces on site) and integrate volunteers into the crisis management in a targeted manner.

ELITE pursues the goal of making complex attacks and defense technologies of IT security tangible and experienceable for broad target groups. An immersive environment in the form of an exhibit construction kit, the so-called IT-Sec.PopUp-Lab, is to be created to give visitors a concrete impression of IT security risks. 

As part of the “Transfer Point” project of the »IT Security for the Economy” initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), the business units Collaborative Safety and Security (ESPRI) and Digital Public Services (DPS) are developing solutions to support small and medium businesses with practical and up-to-date information on protection against cyber attacks.