Collaborative Safety and Health Projects

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.

In the HYKIST project, a real-time-based AI speech assistance system for basic and emergency medicine is being developed as a pilot. The AI-supported communication is intended to facilitate conversations with medical professionals for people who have only limited German skills. Thanks to automatic speech recognition, machine translation and linkage to a teleconferencing platform, the supervising interpreters are supported in conveying complex medical issues in a user-friendly way.

The goal of the ENSURE project is to see that volunteers are organized quickly and efficiently in emergency situations. The project is concerned with locating members of the public who have the kind of special skills needed in emergencies and disasters. The selected volunteers will be alerted and coordinated via smartphone app.

Based on the fit4sec project, the BERKoS project supports German actors in the formation of new research consortia. For this purpose, Fraunhofer FOKUS is realizing a platform, which helps users such as security authorities and companies to get an overview of the research and innovation landscape, to recognize innovation potentials faster and to find suitable partners more easily.

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.

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.

The aim of the SAFE project is to build a denser network of weather sensors, improve the forecasting methods and develop radically automated procedures for the initiation of emergency response processes.

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 research project “Coping with psychosocial situations in crises and disasters” (PsychoKat) is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and researches the psychosocial consequences of crisis and disasters on a broader scale and aims to generate a long-term psychosocial picture of the situation in society.

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.