Objective EmerGent aims at understanding the positive and the negative impact of social media in emergencies in order to enhance objective and perceived safety and security of citizens before, during and after emergencies. Furthermore, EmerGent aims at strengthening the role of European companies dealing with services and products related to the aimed research and development results. EmerGent will perform studies on the communication behaviour via social media in an emergency situation and its impact on emergency management procedures with citizens and public authorities (emergency management services) involved. The understanding of critical situations, the reactions expressed through social media and the general importance and preferred types of social media will be considered. For this research new methods and tools will be developed to reinforce the communication between weakly connected (via social media) crisis-communities (citizens) and the emergency management services, supported by European associations. To handle the vast amount of valuable and distributed data new methods for Information Mining and Information Quality will be developed to classify and rate publicly available and provided data from users. With developed methodologies and software tools for the routing of mined and classified emergency relevant information from social networks, EmerGent will create a comprehensive concept for Novel Emergency Management. All analysis and impact assessment results will lead to the creation of guidelines. Hence stakeholders will be enabled to understand and get the most benefit out of social media and its integration into their processes. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware Programme(s) FP7-SECURITY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Security Topic(s) SEC-2013.6.1-1 - The impact of social media in emergencies – Capability Project Call for proposal FP7-SEC-2013-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN Address Warburger strasse 100 33098 Paderborn Germany See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments projects.administrative_contact Daniela Gerdes (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 546 980,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all INTELLIGENCE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY SRL IES SOLUTIONS SRL Italy EU contribution € 510 260,00 Address Via monte senario 98 00141 Roma See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) projects.administrative_contact Uberto Delprato (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window OXFORD COMPUTER CONSULTANTS LIMITED GB EU contribution € 482 251,00 Address Hythe bridge street 23-38 OX1 2ET Oxford See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) projects.administrative_contact Reynold Greenlaw (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITAET SIEGEN Germany EU contribution € 400 700,00 Address Adolf reichwein strasse 2a 57076 Siegen See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments projects.administrative_contact Tanja Heinzel Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS LBG GB EU contribution € 316 634,00 Address 63 gee street EC1V 3RS London See on map Activity type Research Organisations projects.administrative_contact Kerstin Junge (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window STIFTINGA VESTLANDSFORSKING Norway EU contribution € 397 360,00 Address Sognahallen 6856 Sogndal See on map Activity type Research Organisations projects.administrative_contact Rajendra Akerkar (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN UNION FIRE OFFICER ASSOCIATIONS ASBL Luxembourg EU contribution € 150 099,00 Address 3 boulevard kockelscheuer p a cgdis 1821 Luxembourg See on map Activity type Other projects.administrative_contact Finian Joyce (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EUROPEAN EMERGENCY NUMBER ASSOCIATION ASBL Belgium EU contribution € 280 220,00 Address Avenue de la toison d'or 79 1060 Bruxelles See on map Activity type Other projects.administrative_contact Tony O'brien (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window STADT DORTMUND Germany EU contribution € 174 740,00 Address Friedensplatz 1 44122 Dortmund See on map Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) projects.administrative_contact Hauke Speth (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CENTRUM NAUKOWO-BADAWCZE OCHRONY PRZECIWPOZAROWEJ IM. 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