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Best Paper Award for Smartphone App PairSonic

User-friendly app transmits contact information securely and quickly using sound waves and ad-hoc WiFi

Battery-free Open-source Platform for the Internet of Things presented at SenSys Conference

emergenCITY PI Marco Zimmerling and his former research assistant Kai Geissdoerfer presented a user-friendly, commercially...

Crisis resilience, start-up foundation and slide aesthetics

The emergenCITY Barcamp from 28.10. to 1.11. provided insights into current research projects, a successful...

Media response to the visit of Faeser, Sinemus and Gremmels

On Monday, October 7, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, Digital Minister Kristina Sinemus...

From Research to Application

emergenCITY presents demonstrators on YouTube

Robots Find Their Way Through Crowds

Associate emergenCITY PI Roderich Groß presents study in cooperation with the University of Sheffield

emergenCITY presents new Video Series #emergenCITYinsights on Social Media

Getting to the heart of your own research in just a few seconds is no...

BBK congress: three contributions from emergenCITY accepted

From February 5 to 7, 2025, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance...

Resilience for Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Digital Cities

Oskar von Stryk presented emergenCITY at the “Hessen in Space” conference of the State Chancellery...

Florian Müller joins emergenCITY as associated PI

emergenCITY presents itself at the Digital Summit in Frankfurt am Main

From October 21 to 22, the LOEWE Center emergenCITY is exhibiting resilient digital solutions that...

emergenCITY Contribution at the Theme Week “Water Between Extremes” of the Volkswagen Foundation

From October 9 to 11, the Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover opened its doors for the...

International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction: Protecting Cities from Floods, Heavy Rainfall and Drought

With the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, the United Nations reminds...

Christian Reuter joins Directorate

Christian Reuter joined emergenCITY’s Board of Directors on October 1. The computer science professor at...

Strengthening digital resilience

Faeser, Sinemus and Gremmels visit LOEWE center emergenCITY at TU Darmstadt

Research in Urban Districts: Matthias Hollick presented “Digital Heinerblock” to Mobility Office

The Lichtenbergblock in Darmstadt’s district Martinsviertel is to become more livable. To this end, the...

Digital Self-Organization in Crises: Steffen Haesler successfully defended his Doctoral Thesis

How do people help themselves in disasters? Which technologies can support them? Computer scientist Steffen...

Jasin Machkour defended Doctoral Thesis with Summa Cum Laude

Among other things, Jasin Machkour’s research is helping to improve the Scout robot’s ability to...

Nationwide Warning Day: How Population could be informed in the Event of a Power Outage

September 12 is “Bundesweiter Warntag”, a nationwide warning day. emergenCITY has looked into the question...

DARE 2024: TU Darmstadt hosts second ACM Europe Summer School on Distributed Environments

From Monday, September 9 to Friday, September 13, 32 Master’s and PhD students from Europe...

Digital Summit 2024: emergenCITY among the Exhibitors

From October 21 to 22, the German Federal Government is hosting the Digital Summit in...

Iryna Gurevych receives prestigious Milner Arward

emergenCITY Principal Investigator Iryna Gurevych has been honored with the prestigious “Milner Award and Lecture”...

New Communications and Public Relations Officer

Since August, Angela Zimmerling has been supporting the emergenCITY administration as the new Communications and...

International Conference on Resilient Systems: emergenCITY on the Organizing Committee

From August 28 to 30, more than 150 scientists will come together for the International...

Darmstadt Marketing and the Fire Department Support Advertising Pillar 4.0

The advertising pillar 4.0, an energy self-sufficient warning pillar, is to be tested in Darmstadt...

Syrine Adala Wins Best Paper at the EURAM Conference

At this year’s European Academy of Management Conference (EURAM) in Barth - one of the...

Presentation of the emergenCITY Collaboration Award 2023

Promoting and rewarding interdisciplinary collaboration of young scientists: This is what the emergenCITY Collaboration Award...

Cooperation during a Crisis and Resilience in Digitalized Agriculture

emergenCITY publishes two new Policy Papers

emergenCITY Researchers Participate at the Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

Researchers from PEASEC and emergenCITY took part in the Disaster Risk Reduction Conference of the...

Second associated emergenCITY-PI Hans-Joachim Linke

emergenCITY is thrilled to welcome Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Linke as a further associated PI (Principal...

Media Response to Serious Game Krisopolis

How can the population be better sensitized to the topic of crisis prevention? Scientists from...

Paper Awards for Iryna Gurevych

At this year’s conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)...

Roderich Groß Joins emergenCITY as New Associated PI

Since January 2024, Prof. Dr. Roderich Groß holds the professorship for Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems at...

Member of the State Parliament Torsten Leveringhaus as a Guest

On April 2nd, Torsten Leveringhaus, member of the Hessian state parliament and digital policy spokesman...

Carolin Bock is the new Equal Opportunities and Family Representative at emergenCITY

emergenCITY has a new Equal Opportunities and Family representative: Prof. Carolin Bock follows Michaela Leštáková...

WWTF Grant for emergenCITY Alumni Andrea Ortiz

Dr. Andrea Ortiz worked for several years at the Communications Engineering Lab with the deputy...

A Glimpse into the Batteryless Future of the Internet of Things

How can the Internet of Things operate without batteries? emergenCITY Professor Marco Zimmerling and his...

Interdependencies of Electricity and Communication Networks

emergenCITY-PI Florian Steinke co-edits VDE impulse paper

New Research in the Field of Entrepreneurship: The Ambivalence of Empathy

Is empathy uniformly a good thing for entrepreneurs? The emergenCITY publication in the renowned Journal...

New emergenCITY PIs in Kassel and Marburg

Oliver Hohlfeld and Thorsten Papenbrock join the emergenCITY team for next phase

International Company Representatives Impressed by the AI, Robotics and Startup Ecosystem at TU Darmstadt

45 representatives of European companies visited TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI on December 12 and were...

Athene-Sonderpreis für Gute Lehre 2023 for emergenCITY PIs

TU Darmstadt honors outstanding best-practice models of teaching with the Athene Awards for Good Teaching....

Member of the Bundestag Larem visits emergenCITY’s eHUB

Member of the Bundestag Andreas Larem (SPD) visited emergenCITY’s resilient Smart Home eHUB and took...

Communication in the Event of a Crisis

Digital Advertising Pillars will provide Information for the Population

Mission Heinerblock is ready for take-off

The sixth mission, “Heinerblock” now extends emergenCITY’s research with a second living lab in the...

Kateryna Zarembo is honored with Emma Goldman Snowball Award

Her thanks also goes to emergenCITY and thus to TUDa.

Resilience through Urban Data Platforms

Best practice dossier on the situation in Germany published

Virtual Tour of the eHUB

The Hessian Ministry of Science and Art (HMWK) has modelled a virtual interactive image of...

World’s Best Autonomous Rescuers

TU Darmstadt’s rescue robotics team Hector won awards for Best in Class Autonomy, Technology Challenge,...

Learning from the Disaster – Two Years after the Flood of the Ahr Valley

The next few days will mark the second anniversary of the heavy flood event in...

Book Publication “Endangerment of Urban Infrastructure by Floods”

We congratulate emergenCITY WiMi Nadja Thiessen on the publication of her book “Gefährdung städtischer Infrastruktur...

emergenCITY Collaboration Award 2022

Promoting and rewarding collaboration in research, even among young scientists: This is what the emergenCITY...

Darmstadt Rescue Robots at the International Top

The rescue robotics team Hector of TU Darmstadt took first place in the radiation mapping...

Second emergenCITY Professorship Appointed

In April 2023, Professor Marco Zimmerling joined the team of PIs at emergenCITY in the...

Team Hector Wins Rescue Robotics Competition at the German Rescue Robotics Center

The rescue robotics team Hector from Darmstadt University of Technology has once again won this...

Funding for Energy Robotics

Associated start-up founded with the collaboration of TU professor and emergenCITY PI Oskar von Stryk...

Passwordless yet Secure – Best Paper Award at Flagship Conference

Study on smartphone authentication with emergenCITY participation has won a Best Paper Award at the...

Lessons Learned from the Flood of 2021

The heavy rainfall event of summer 2021 in the Ahr Valley, with more than 180...

Sharing electricity in a crisis situation? With a friend in need, definitely!

What about the willingness to share privately generated electricity during a prolonged power outage? Researchers...

emergenCITY Thesis wins Datenlotsen-Preis 2022

Bachelor thesis by Ben-Jasper Kettlitz supervised at emergenCITY has received “Datenlotsen Prize 2022”

Warning, but what’s next? – Research for the Crisis

The Warning Day on December 08 attracts public attention throughout Germany. After the disaster of...

Bastian Bloessl wins Ulrich Rohde Award

emergenCITY researcher Bastian Bloessl was awarded the Ulrich L. Rohde Award of 2022 during this...

The “Brain” of the Digital City explained

Mission Knowledge Base launches explanatory video What can digital data with information about cities help...

Flying Communication Infrastructures

The emergenCITY cross-sectional mission Aerial Crisis Networks (ACN) is conducting research on communication systems based...

10 Scientific Recommendations on Reconstruction and Sustainability of Flood-Affected Regions

The flood disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate last year is one of the most...

Look Back on the emergenCITY Week 2022

Participatory workshops, distinguished lectures and inspiring discussions: During the emergenCITY Week 2022, the exchange between...

emergenCITY Collaboration Award 2021

The winners of the second emergenCITY Collaboration Award, which was awarded during this year’s emergenCITY...

New Principal Investigators at emergenCITY

emergenCITY gets new reinforcement. Professors Britta Schmalz and Jan Gugenheimer have started their work at...

Publication in the “International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction” on blackout as a crisis scenario

The lights don’t turn on, the shower is cold, the coffee maker won’t brew a...

First emergenCITY funded professor takes up his work

Since April, Professor Vahid Jamali has been the new PI at emergenCITY for the first...

Report of the “Ethics of the Digital City” Conference

The report of the conference “Ethics of the Digital City”, jointly organized by emergenCITY, KRITIS...

Apply now for the Female Student Travel Award 2022!

Attention female students of computer science, electrical engineering and information technology! Together with the Collaborative...

Renovation work at the eHUB is progressing

A lot has happened at the eHUB. The conversion and renovation of the former Solar...

Digital Control Center for Crises

emergenCITY cross-sectional mission researches a Smart Digital Situation Control Center Our cities are becoming more...

Organizing digital data on cities

emergenCITY cross-sectional mission works on the design of a knowledge base Information can become the...

Resilience for Digital Agriculture

Resilience is an important factor also in agriculture. New technologies for automation and data collection...

The Missing Piece of the Puzzle

In the June 2021 flood disaster, the devastation caused a long lasting blackout in the...

Safe and crisis-proof communication and organisation

emergenCITY cross-sectional mission ReSON develops resilient neighborhood app Neighborhoods that organise themselves by using digital...

Dr. Michael Muma elected Chairman of a Technical Area Committee of EURASIP

emergenCITY scientist Dr. Michael Muma has been elected Chair of the Technical Area Committee (TAC)...

Tracking down information from biobanks

ERC Starting Grant for research project of emergenCITY scientist Michael Muma emergenCITY scientist Dr. Michael...

emergenCITY and Floods – Current Research Projects

The devastating floods in mid-July 2021 painfully demonstrated the vulnerability of our cities. The extent...

Flood disaster 2021 survey

The LOEWE Center emergenCITY and our scientists were deeply affected by the floods in Germany...

New LOEWE funding for research on slums

Since the beginning of January, a new research project of the TU Darmstadt is funded...

New professors at emergenCITY

emergenCITY is growing! Three new professors were recruited for emergenCITY this fall: Prof. Rolf Findeisen,...

Mission eHUB starts research on power crisis

The cross-cutting mission eHUB from the different program areas of emergenCITY starts to convert the...

Darmstadt’s rescue robots on course for success

The rescue robotics team Hector recently won two competitions: the European robotics competition EnRicH and...

KuVS Science Award for emergenCITY Master Thesis

For his master thesis on “Secure Device Pairing Using Short-Range Acoustic Communication” emergenCITY researcher Florentin...

Bringing the next generation to campus

The project NeXT Generation on Campus at TU Darmstadt playfully introduces pupils to the degree...

When devices learn foreign languages to communicate universally

Best Paper Award for emergenCITY and MAKI scientists All smart home devices controlled from one...

Our three lemon experiment winners of the ProLOEWE science rally

There were six weeks to solve 21 ProLOEWE science puzzles - six great weeks in...

emergenCITY participates in BMBF Research Project Open6GHub

TU Darmstadt is part of the 6G research consortium Open6GHub funded by the German Federal...

Tracking lost keys or stolen bikes made easy

ATHENE and emergenCITY researchers provide award-winning open-source framework for locating personal Bluetooth devices While it...

Female Student Travel Award presented

Congratulations to the winners of the Female Student Travel Award 2021! The awards were given...

Team Hector successful at RoboCup

The rescue robot team Hector from TU Darmstadt has won the Best-in-Class Awards in two...

Second emergenCITY Policy Paper – Crisis-proof through dark times

Our critical infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex and thus more crisis-prone. Even if hardly anyone...

Apply now for the Female Student Travel Award 2021!

Attention female students of computer science, electrical engineering and information technology! Together with the Collaborative...

Apple AirDrop shares more than files

Researchers discover significant privacy leak in Apple’s file-sharing service AirDrop Pictures, presentations, or videos –...

Shaping the computers of the future in the new DFG focus programme “Disruptive Main Memory Technologies”

The new focus programme “Disruptive Main Memory Technologies” of the German Research Foundation (DFG) will...

New focus programme in the field of resilient networks

Following the motto “Mastering faults, overload, attacks and the unknown”, the new focus programme “Resilience...

Study Award of the SEW-Eurodrive Foundation for emergenCITY Master Thesis

Christian Schroth’s master thesis titled “Robust Bayesian Cluster Analysis” has been awarded the 2020 Study...

Dr. Michael Muma receives the EURASIP Early Career Award 2021

Congratulations to emergenCITY scientist Dr.-Ing. Michael Muma, who receives the 2021 Early Career Award from...

Congratulations to Iryna Gurevych on the first LOEWE-professorship

emergenCITY-PI Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych receives the first LOEWE-professorship of the Hessian research funding programme...

Who Can “Find My” Devices?

It is supposed to make it easier to find Apple devices - but normally not...

Prof. Annette Rudolph-Cleff at the BDA’s 25th Berliner (Fern-) Gespräch

Information and communication technologies are more important to us than ever, as the Corona pandemic...

Paper accepted at top tier conference SIGMETRICS’21

Congratulations to our emergenCITY scientists Arash Asadi, Allyson Sim and Matthias Hollick. The paper “Stay...

IANUS Award 2020 for emergenCITY researcher Marc-André Kaufhold

IANUS stands for scientific and technical peace and conflict research at the Technische Universität Darmstadt....

Research Training Group KRITIS extended

emergenCITY cooperates with the Graduiertenkolleg KRITIS since the beginning, because it fits to the research...

Congratulations to Iryna Gurevych as future President of the ACL

emergenCITY-PI Prof. Iryna Gurevych takes over the office of Vice-President-elect as of January 1, 2021...

Policy Paper published with recommendations for action

How can our society function reliably even in crises? This is the key question of...

emergenCITY Paper wins Best Student Paper Award at IEEE Radar Conference 2020

Among the 143 papers submitted to the competition from across the world, the best five...

emergenCITY – we have started!

In January 2020 the research center “emergenCITY - The Resilient Digital City” under the direction...