Events & News

Policy Paper published with recommendations for action

How can our society function reliably even in crises? This is the key question of the policy paper published by emergenCITY. The paper urges actors from politics, economy and society to make digital infrastructures crisis-proof. COVID-19 is a current example of how stable infrastructures have to be if more and more people work and communicate digitally from home overnight. Resilient information and communication technologies must be able to cope with overloads, technical faults, cyber attacks,...

Oct 22, 2020 Publications

Policy Paper published with recommendations for action

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

Oct 22, 2020 Publications

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...

Oct 16, 2020 Awards

Prof. Matthias Hollick in the “Rat der Cyberweisen”

Prof. Matthias Hollick: “Digital infrastructures in networked cities must remain available, understandable and controllable at...

Jun 25, 2020 Media

emergenCITY at the Darmstädter Energiekonferenz

emergenCITY at the 12th Darmstädter Energiekonferenz: Resilience – Smart security of our energy supply. The...

Feb 19, 2020 News

Talk on human disasters of natural origin by Prof. Christian Oberli

“There are no natural disasters. There are only human disasters of natural origin” – their...

Dec 4, 2019 Events

Crisis-proof networking on 3Sat

How important is crisis-proof networking? What are the consequences of digitalization? emergenCITY PI Prof. Ralf...

Nov 3, 2019 Media

First guest researcher at emergenCITY: Prof. Michael Zink (UMass Amherst)

We are happy to announce our first visitor: Prof. Michael Zink, co-director of CASA at...

Jul 22, 2019 Events

emergenCITY – we have started!

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

Jul 4, 2019 News