Highlights

The Search and Rescue project aimed to develop a highly interoperable, modular open architecture platform to support first responders during disaster situations such as earthquakes, industrial accidents, and building collapses. By integrating advanced technologies and fostering collaboration among emergency teams, the project has improved the effectiveness and efficiency of search and rescue operations.

We often compare the brain to a machine with wheels, cogs, and belts. In this analogy, when something breaks, the entire mechanism skips a beat or grinds to a halt. However, more often than not this isn’t what happens with our brains. Instead, they’re more like a theatre. Here, neurons are the musicians, actors, and dancers, and they improvise a performance that shapes our thoughts and lives.

In the context of the MES-CoBraD project, which I have the privilege of coordinating, our platform facilitates the secure sharing, analysis, and management of anonymized patient data. Although the platform was not directly affected by the recent cyberattack on Sant Pau Hospital in Catalonia, the incident underscores the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures in the healthcare sector, especially in the interconnected systems such as eHDSI and the proposed European Health Data Space (EHDS).

The DSS Lab, coordinators of the Search and Rescue project, invite you to participate in its final conference and a preceding standardisation workshop on SAR operations. Both events are free and open to all, taking place on May 8-9, 2023, at Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park near Athens.

Register now: Innovative Technologies and Equipment for SAR Operations: The SnR Final Conference

This episode focuses on the bright side of our use of technology; finding missing children with real-time input and geofencing, helping a visually impaired person navigate a challenge that crops up in their daily lives, fake news: sorting the wheat from the chaff.

ChildRescue was an EU funded project that aspires to effectively reduce the primary period between the moment a child is reported missing and the one when it is found, and to help predict and prevent the disappearance of Children in Migration, by increasing accuracy and timeliness of publicly and privately available information, by performing evidence-based predictions on the whereabouts of children in distress, and by providing 

The Innovation Radar is a European Commission initiative to identify high potential innovations and innovators in EU-funded research and innovation projects. Its goal is to allow every citizen, public official, professional and business person to discover the outputs of EU innovation funding and give them a chance to seek out innovators who could follow in the footsteps of companies such as Skype, TomTom, ARM Holdings, all of whom received EU funding in their early days.