Newsletter December 2023

Dear partners and friends of TeamAware: Welcome to our December 2023 newsletter - issue 9!

Our consortium has been very active over the past few months and we are pleased to inform you about the latest developments and activities in our project.

After our review meeting in May 2023, we have mainly focused on the final Bursa demonstration. For this, we met in Bursa in September 2023 and held a 5-day workshop (please find a detailed report on the event below), where we demonstrated the latest version of the TeamAware system to the invited first responders. We thoroughly visited the demonstration area and designed our pilot scenario to be used at the final demonstration, which will be held in February 2024.

All of the work in progress and achievements in the individual workpackages are summarized in the corresponding blogs published at https://teamaware.eu/news-events/blogs.html.

In this newsletter, we would like to inform you about numerous exciting and promising dissemination activities by our project partners.

Clustering Event at ZAB in Styria, Austria, September 16, 2023.

On September 16, 2023, our partner #DUNE has participated in a clustering event at the underground facility Zentrum am Berg (ZAB) in Styria, Austria together with partners from the projects Med1stMR (funded by Horizon Europe) and NIKE-med (funded by the AUSTIRAN FFG). At this field exercise, a real-life testing inside a tunnel system took place, where a bus accident with 20 victims to be triaged was simulated. Overall, around 130 people took part in the exercise, including about 70 first responders from firefighters, police and four different medical first responder organizations, 38 role players and over twenty researchers from all over Europe. Participation in the event gave our partner DUNE the opportunity to liaise with partners from other Responder Technology projects and to test its COILS system, capable of tracking the location of the first responders in GPS-denied environments (e.g., tunnels). The event was widely covered in the media, including film and newspaper reports.

2nd TeamAware Workshop and Hackathon on 18-22 September 2023 in Merinos Atatürk Congress and Culture Center, Bursa, Türkiye.

The workshop started with the participation of Bursa’s mayor, Alinur Aktaş. This significantly increased the public attention to our project. Several reports about the event, correspondingly our project, have been published in many national newspapers and TV programs.

We demonstrated the latest version of the TeamAware system to the invited participants. We visited the demonstration area and designed our pilot scenario to be used at the final demonstration, which will be held in February 2024.

ENIDE and RAN participated at the Security Research Event (SRE) 2023, 24-25 October 2023

We are honoured to have showcased TeamAware at the Security Research Event 2023 in Brussels, courtesy of EU Commission. Our recent innovations aim to support the evolution of first responder capabilities, harnessing advanced technology to foster progress.

On October 7th 2023, Johanniter Research presented our project at the Technical Museum in Vienna, which this year focused on the topic of drones.

Johanniter Research and Development presented TeamAware at the annual Vienna Security Festival on October 26th, 2023.

European Resuscitation Council Congress 2023, 2, 3 & 4 November 2023 | Barcelona

Our partners from HSEPC presented TeamAware at the European Resuscitation Council Congress ERC 2023 2-4 November in Barcelona with poster and oral presentation.

14th National Congress on Trauma and Emergency Surgery on 16th of November 2023, in Antalya, Turkiye.

Our partner AAHD presented TeamAware at the 14th National Congress on Trauma and Emergency Surgery on November 16, 2023, in Antalya, Turkiye.

CERIS Disaster Resilient Societies organised by DG HOME (EC) on 4-7 December in Brussels

As TeamAware project (SRDC, AAHD and RAN), we actively participated in the CERIS event in Brussels.

22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM'23 - Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 499–500.) on 3-6 December 2023, Vienna, Austria.

Our partners from Sabanci University presented TeamAware at the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '23) in Vienna.

We are also pleased that our partners have published numerous papers related to the TeamAware project in recent months.

• Daniel Slamanig, Christoph Striecks, "Revisiting Updatable Encryption: Controlled Forward Security, Constructions and a Puncturable Perspective", TCC 2023, November 29 - December 2, 2023 Taipei, Taiwan.
• Book Chapter on our project by our partner AAHD, "Zeynep Sofuoglu, Burcu Kucuk Bicer, ICT Technologies in Disasters" has been published in "Disasters and Public Health".
• Christian Göth, Sebastian Ramacher, et. al., "Optimizing 0-RTT Key Exchange with Full Forward Security", 14th Cloud Computing Security Workshop - CCSW 2023, November 26, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Yildiray Kabak, Idil Gokalp Kose, Caglar Akman and Dave Ramscar, TeamAware: Profile-based Interoperability Framework for First Responders, ITDRR 2023, Tokyo, Japan, December 4-6, 2023
• Team awareness enhanced with artificial intelligence and augmented reality (TeamAware) Resuscitation, Vol. 192, Supplement S26, Published in issue: November, 2023, Marietta Pateinioti, Stylianos Xeniadis, Caglar Akman.
• Fatih Oztank, David De La Fuente Escobar, and Selim Balcisoy. 2023. First Responders' Take on Technology: A Deep Dive into Mobile and AR Interface Preferences. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 499–500. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626705.3631788

We wish you all a happy new year and a relaxing holiday season and we will continue to update you on our exciting development activities, so look out for more information about how TeamAware is progressing in future issues of our Newsletter!