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Deliverable D7.2

Dissemination activities Report I

Editor E. Palmisano (PRT)

Contributors D. Skoutos (ATH), S. Pfenningschmidt (FF), P. Mehta (FUB), N. Atanasova (GS4), N. Bakalos (ICCS), B. Bhardwa (ICPR), P. Turnball (ICPR), A. Litke (INF), S. Bartlett (LWF), A. Engström (MLM), P. Boscolo (PRT), A. Carbone (ROM), E. Sauli (SYN), G. Gardikis (SPH)

Version 1.0

Date April 30th, 2016

Distribution PUBLIC (PU)

Ref. Ares(2016)2366975 - 22/05/2016

City.Risks Deliverable D7.2

© City.Risks Consortium 2

Executive Summary

The present document illustrates the dissemination strategy planned by the City.Risks consortium and reports the first dissemination activities carried out by the project partners during the first year.

The document is structured in five sections. Section 1 gives an introduction to the City.Risks project and its main issues, benefits and dissemination objectives.

Section 2 reports the main elements of the project dissemination strategy, while Section 3 describes the primary stakeholders and target groups identified by the Consortium on the basis of partners' experience.

Section 4 describes the different communication channels set up by the Consortium to support dissemination activities, managed either in a centralised way or individually by each partner according to its specific role in the project.

Section 5 gives an overview of each partner's dissemination plan and includes a summary of dissemination actions carried out in the first year and, where available, also a review of possible activities planned for the next year. This section will be updated in the future releases of the dissemination activity report, planned at M24 and M36.

Section 6 reports some main conclusions on the work done so far, also through some summary diagrams and tables. Finally, the Annex reports all the dissemination activities carried out by the Consortium partners, arranged by events, scientific papers and books, press releases, distributed through different communication channels.



Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................... 6

1.1. CITY.RISKS executive summary ........................................................................... 6

1.2. CITY.RISKS benefits ............................................................................................. 6

1.3. Dissemination Strategy Overview ....................................................................... 7

1.4. Overall project and dissemination objective ...................................................... 8

1.5. Major Phases of dissemination for CITY.RISKS ................................................... 8

1.5.1. Create Awareness: (1st project year-Phase I)......................................................... 8

1.5.2. Disseminate project results (2nd and 3rd project year-Phase II) ........................... 8

1.5.3. Enable further exploitation (3rd project year – Phase III) ...................................... 9

2. CITY.RISKS DISSEMINATION STRATEGY PRINCIPLES ................................. 10

3. PRIMARY STAKEHOLDERS AND TARGET GROUPS ..................................... 12

3.1. Local Governments ........................................................................................... 12

3.1.1. Civil Society ........................................................................................................... 12

3.1.2. Policy makers, city administrators and police forces ........................................... 12

3.2. Researchers and Academics ............................................................................. 13

3.3. Businesses ......................................................................................................... 13

3.4. EU Public Organizations .................................................................................... 14

3.5. International cluster organizations ................................................................... 14

3.5.1. Major Cities of Europe – IT Users group (MCE) .................................................... 14

3.5.2. Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CCRE – CEMR) ........................ 15

3.5.3. EUROCITIES ........................................................................................................... 15

3.5.4. The City Mayors Foundation ................................................................................. 16

3.5.5. United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) ...................................................... 16

3.5.6. METROPOLIS ......................................................................................................... 16

3.5.7. The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) .............................................. 17

3.5.8. NET-EUCEN Thematic Network............................................................................. 19

3.5.9. European Forum for Urban Security (Efus) .......................................................... 19

3.6. Standardization organizations .......................................................................... 20

4. COMMUNICATION STRATEGY ................................................................. 21

4.1. Preferred communication channels ................................................................. 21

4.1.1. Direct contacts ...................................................................................................... 21

4.1.2. The CITY.RISKS website ......................................................................................... 21

4.1.3. Press releases........................................................................................................ 28



4.1.4. Newsletters ........................................................................................................... 28

4.1.5. The Project dissemination deliverables ................................................................ 29

4.1.6. Events and Conference ......................................................................................... 31

4.1.7. CITY.RISKS dedicated conference ......................................................................... 31

4.1.8. Papers and articles ................................................................................................ 31

4.1.9. Social Media .......................................................................................................... 32

4.1.10. Open Information Hub ........................................................................................ 33

4.1.11. Project video ....................................................................................................... 34

4.1.12. Mailing lists and collaborative platforms ........................................................... 34

4.2. Initial dissemination plans of CITY.RISKS partners ........................................... 34

4.2.1. Space Hellas S.A. ................................................................................................... 34

4.2.2. Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS .......................... 36

4.2.3. Athena Research & Innovation Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies ................................................................................................ 37

4.2.4. SYNYO GmbH ........................................................................................................ 38

4.2.5. Infili Technologies PC ............................................................................................ 40

4.2.6. Institute of Communications and Computer Systems – ICCS ............................... 41

4.2.7. Freie Universität Berlin ......................................................................................... 44

4.2.8. Institute for Criminal Policy Research, University of London ............................... 45

4.2.9. Malmö University ................................................................................................. 47

4.2.10. Roma Capitale ..................................................................................................... 48

4.2.11. The London Borough of Waltham Forest ........................................................... 49

4.2.12. G4S Security Solutions EOOD.............................................................................. 50

4.2.13. Comune di Prato ................................................................................................. 52

5. CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................. 55

ANNEX I: DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIRST YEAR ........................................... 57

BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................... 72

LIST OF ACRONYMS ......................................................................................... 73



Table of Figures Figure 1. Main page of the City.Risks website. ............................................................ 22

Figure 2. Snapshots of the website main page. ........................................................... 23

Figure 3. The "project structure" section in the website. ........................................... 24

Figure 4. The "deliverable" section in the website. ..................................................... 24

Figure 5. The "consortium" section in the website. .................................................... 25

Figure 6. The "project boards" section in the website. ............................................... 25

Figure 7. The "media centre" section in the website. ................................................. 26

Figure 8. The "news" section in the website. .............................................................. 27

Figure 9. The "event" section in the website. .............................................................. 27

Figure 10. The "contact" section in the website. ......................................................... 28

Figure 11. The project logo. ......................................................................................... 29

Figure 12. The project leaflet. ...................................................................................... 30

Figure 13. The project factsheet. ................................................................................. 30

Figure 14. Examples of the project roll-up. ................................................................. 31

Figure 15. Twitter page on the project website. ......................................................... 33

Figure 16. Distribution of dissemination activities in the first year. ........................... 56

List of Tables Table 1. Summary of Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. .................................................... 32

Table 2. Summary of dissemination material and communication channels. ............ 55

Table 3. Main website analytics (June 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016). ............................. 55

Table 4. Summary of dissemination activities in the first year.................................... 56



1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. CITY.RISKS executive summary

The main objective of the City.Risks project is to increase the perception of security of citizens in cities by activating in a more transparent and sustainable way their participation in communities, through which information and interventions can be provided both to proactively protect citizens from falling victims to criminal activities as well as to reactively provide more timely and effective response and assistance. In order to do so, the City.Risks project will leverage a set of innovative technologies, city infrastructures, and available data sources, but more importantly will aim at making the citizens' smart phones the modern tool for increasing their personal and collective sense of security. The project will design and develop an innovative ecosystem of mobile services that will transform the smart phone or the tablet of the citizen into a tool that will collect, visualise and share safety-critical information with the appropriate authorities and communities.

The project will rely on a wide spectrum of available technologies to design and implement an interactive framework among authorities and citizens through mobile applications that will allow in a collaboratively way to prevent or mitigate the impact of crime incidents or other security threats. Thus, it will contribute to an increase of the citizens' perception of security, which will be measured and validated in real-life scenarios and conditions through the deployment and operation of pilot trials at several selected cities by the project partners. Moreover, to further found its sustainability, the project will devise business models and replication plans of its results that will contribute in the next generation innovative security solutions for the future smart cities.

1.2. CITY.RISKS benefits

The project aims at providing the following benefits:

Reduce the fear of crime and enhance the perception of security of the inhabitants of large urban environments.

Increase the perception of security of citizens by empowering them, fostering their sense of belonging to a greater community. Facilitating the engagement of citizens

to improve the security conditions of smart cities.

Providing new market opportunities, especially for SMEs and entrepreneurs, to develop and produce innovative technologies for urban security.

Benefits for the society include:

Reducing the fear of citizens in modern cities will have a very important impact in their daily life. It is envisaged that social interaction and behaviour will increase



having thus a positive impact in their well-being and consequently in fostering economic development.

Employment opportunities not only during the lifetime of the project but also due to the competitive position of new services and products in the international market and the new business models that these will bring.

Promoting secure access to public spaces for more people, enriching their safety feeling in smart cities.

Furthermore, by disseminating the vision and the results of this project, more organisations that are involved in security industry will be further motivated to include high end security products and services for smart cities in their daily practice.

1.3. Dissemination Strategy Overview

Dissemination is a key element of any EU project. It must guarantee that the results are widely shared across the EU during all phases of the project in order to enable wide usage from any interested organization. Therefore, it is important for the City.Risks consortium to define and agree a well-tuned, harmonized, synchronized and executed strategy by leveraging a common approach, shared targets and objectives, shared messages and deliverables etc.

The results of the execution of the dissemination strategy will be continuously monitored. This will give factual information on the strategy effectiveness and as a consequence periodical evolution update and adaptation of it.

The project dissemination strategy is based on the following aspects:

Definition of the strategy principles adopted to select and prioritize the initiatives and dissemination actions.

Identification and analysis of the primary stakeholders and target groups with prioritization at the different stages of the project. Such groups will include:

o City administrators and policy makers, urban police forces

o Citizens, researchers, academics and businesses

o EU public organizations, International cluster organizations, and other EU and global organizations linked to urban politics and governance

The communication strategy describing the different ways, deliverables and medias to reach and involve the stakeholders and target groups

The dissemination activities committed by each City.Risks partner to contribute to the overall success.

The reporting and control of dissemination results with respect to the planned activities.



1.4. Overall project and dissemination objective

The City.Risks project will pursue the following objectives:

Objective 1: To provide a more in-depth and fine-grained analysis and understanding of the factors of fear of crime in urban environments, investigating and correlating both dimensions of objective aspects, related to the actual surroundings and crime incidents, and subjective aspects, related to societal and psychological factors covering the citizens' perspective.

Objective 2: To foster and facilitate the engagement of citizens in better addressing security challenges, by encouraging and enabling their bidirectional interaction with the relevant authorities as well as among themselves in trusted networks and broader communities.

Objective 3: To provide a platform and technologies for collecting, integrating, managing and visualizing contextualized, crime-related information -both historical and real-time- and using it for more effective and timely prevention and response to security threats.

Objective 4: To design and develop an ecosystem of mobile services that will transform the citizens' smart phones and tablets into primary tools for sharing safety-critical information with the appropriate authorities and among them.

Objective 5: To design and build new lightweight and user friendly small sensor devices for enabling the detection of specific cases of criminality, such as identifying and locating stolen object utilizing the citizens as sensors.

The City.Risk consortium is committed in ensuring dissemination opportunities for all the project products and results, both of the theoretical and technological type, as long as they will be developed during the project lifetime. Therefore, each of the project objectives will be pursued also by taking into account the most appropriate actions for disseminating related results.

1.5. Major Phases of dissemination for CITY.RISKS

The adopted measures for a successful dissemination and exploitation process are implemented in three phases, as reported below.

1.5.1. Create Awareness: (1st project year-Phase I)

The objective is to make the project well known to stakeholders across Europe and to encourage the debate on the project issues. The objective will be met particularly through conferences and workshops across Europe, articles and publications.

1.5.2. Disseminate project results (2nd and 3rd project year-Phase II)

The objective builds on experiences and dissemination opportunities as in the awareness phase I (e.g. classification of events, identified channels and personal



contacts), the main difference is that in phase 2 there will be some marketable content to be disseminated to a targeted audience.

1.5.3. Enable further exploitation (3rd project year – Phase III)

The dissemination objective builds on a solution already tested and piloted, that can be deployed as much as required with the support of the Company parties in the consortium. The dissemination in this phase will be supported by the elaboration of a sustainability strategy and initiation of steps to ensure further exploitation. In principle, City.Risks will follow an open source license approach as much as possible, to ensure broad based exploitation, adoption and use of results.



2. CITY.RISKS DISSEMINATION STRATEGY PRINCIPLES

The overall approach to decide on the optimum dissemination strategy and deployment plan must take into consideration the following variables and dimensions and correlate them together.

The target groups: City.Risks intends to address multiple target groups of stakeholders who are interested in the issues faced by the project:

o City administrators, policy makers and urban police

o Civil Society (citizens, associations, etc.)

o Enterprises specialized in the urban security field, especially SMEs

o The scientific and research community

The City.Risks value proposition and related messages: each target group has different interests because of its different mission and role. It is therefore important to define how to engage each group with tailored value proposition messages and content, with different media and events.

The stage of evolution of City.Risks: the engagement approach, the interest of the target groups and the intensity of the dissemination activities will vary depending on the stage of evolution of the project actions.

The communication channels: we must consider the capability of each communication channel and a mix of them to reach each target group at the different stages of the project:

o events and conferences: international (EU and global), national and local in EU countries

o PR with Press (printed and online) at national and EU level

o web

o social media

o newsletters

o flyers

o individual engagements with key interested parties

o international and national associations of Cities and Local Governments (clusters)

o …

The value and cost of the various media versus the available budget, their different impact and importance for each target population is a variable to consider in deciding what are the key events and conferences that City.Risks must select and the dissemination strategy must address.



The geographies (countries, cities, etc…) to which to dedicate more or less focus: the importance of the different EU countries and cities varies depending on their size and the type of security issues they have to face. Dissemination will be primarily addressed to EU large urban areas but project outcomes might be exploited also in smaller urban contexts, according to local situations.

The budget allocation: based on the above criteria the decision on how to allocate the dissemination budget during the 3 years duration of the project to the different target groups considering their relevance at different stages of the project and the costs associated with each dissemination media (events, conferences etc.) is a key decision criteria that must lead to a balanced and sustainable budget allocation.



3. PRIMARY STAKEHOLDERS AND TARGET GROUPS

This section describes the main stakeholders and target groups considered in the dissemination strategy, their interests and potential benefits from the project results.

Each primary target group is analysed in detail to evaluate at each stage of the project what objectives must be pursued, its importance for City.Risks dissemination, the preferred communication channels, the geographies to be addressed and the level of budget allocation.

3.1. Local Governments

Currently the EU has around 500 million inhabitants and more than 131 million people (approximately one quarter of the whole population) live in cities; 17 of EU cities include more than 1.000.000 inhabitants [1] and represent a primary target for the project dissemination, since City.Risks is mainly focused on urban security issues in large urban areas. Nonetheless, even smaller cities can be interested in the opportunities offered by City.Risks tools to involve citizens in increasing the safety perception in urban areas.

3.1.1. Civil Society

Citizens, either as single individuals or as associations/organisations, are the key players to be involved at local level in the exploitation of City.Risks but a sample of them will also be involved (by means of appropriate techniques, e.g. questionnaires, focus groups, workshops, etc.) in the stages of awareness and dissemination of results to get feedback in the planning and testing phases and to strengthen the citizens' role in the reinforcement of safety issues in the city.

This is the task of each pilot city, because the local dimension is the only dimension on which citizens can be reasonably engaged.

3.1.2. Policy makers, city administrators and police forces

The City.Risks platform and services will contribute in reducing the fear of citizens in the urban context, therefore they might represent a valuable support for city administrators, policy makers and responsible for citizens' safety in the management of security issues.

Dissemination actions towards such target will be focused also on the opportunities of reinforcing the co-operation between public authorities and citizens, in order to generate a positive impact in the field of increasing urban security.



3.2. Researchers and Academics

The City.Risks consortium includes several prestigious research centres and universities who will be duly involved in disseminating the project rationale and results within their scientific networks.

Because of the scientific research and the innovative technologies to be developed in the project, researchers and academics are a primary target as potential contributors to advise and assess the logic and the technology at the base of the City.Risks solution.

One of the main research audiences for the dissemination activities are academics and professionals that are working within the field of criminology and crime prevention, like for example university departments involved in Criminology which might consider City.Risks results an interesting example to be discussed in academic courses. More specifically, the dissemination activities will be centred on the project’s main criminological themes, including fear of crime, criminal victimisation, and urban security as well as the interface between new and existing technologies for crime prevention. These topics may also gain interest from public and private organisations working with crime prevention, victim rights, and other aspects of urban security.

A further research audience might be represented by scientists working in the data management and data analytics field, including geospatial data management, databases and data management, data mining, analytics and machine learning, linked data and big data.

3.3. Businesses

The City.Risks results might generate a fallout on different types of businesses (mainly SMEs), that will therefore represent an interesting target for dissemination activities. Although the City.Risks results can have a wide range of applications and can be suited for a wide spectrum of business needs, there are specific types of businesses which can be particularly targeted. These are:

Security system integrators and solution providers: they could be interested in adopting the City.Risks security solution as a whole, and offering it to customers either “as-is”, as a standalone security solution, or integrated with security products already included in their portfolio, e.g. sensors, decision support services, visualisation GUIs etc.

Security service providers: they could be interested in using the City.Risks solution as a whole (or, more likely, some specific components) in order to augment their existing capabilities, such as control centre, C2 capabilities etc. For example, the mobile application could be used by the company’s security personnel and/or by its customers, under tailored scenarios. In such a case, the community-driven use cases would not apply to the wide public, but to a closed group e.g. of company customers, which would somehow increase the level of trust between community members. As another example, the theft sensors could be used to protect



customers’ assets, in addition to existing surveillance equipment. Overall, City.Risks results should enable security service providers to augment their operational capabilities and also significantly widen their service portfolio.

SMEs and startups: they could be interested in exploiting project results as a starting point to further develop added-value products and services. For example, exploit the City.Risks SDK in order to develop additional services interacting with the Platform, such as data processors and analytics modules, recommendation engines, decision support systems, interfaces to other platforms and web applications etc. Alternatively, they could build on the City.Risks sensor system in order to develop novel applications as well as integrated product packages, possibly tailored to specific customer needs.

In any case, potential enterprise customers for City.Risks results will be primarily approached via B2B communication channels, such as exhibitions, focused newsletters and custom workshops/presentations. The aim will be first to analyse the needs of the enterprise/potential adopter and –at second stage- elaborate with the consortium partners/foreground owners how the results of the project can be adapted in order to fulfil the expressed needs.

3.4. EU Public Organizations

The European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN)1 is an EU-organisation that could be of certain interest for the project’s dissemination activities. EUCPN aims to share and gather good practices and information on crime prevention and City.Risks may contribute to their knowledge base. Moreover, future dissemination activities within City.Risks may be presented at the annual conference held by the EUCPN.

3.5. International cluster organizations

The international cluster organizations are key to more easily address the multitude of target groups in Local Government. There are a wide number of such organizations. Those to be selected as primary targets must have a focus of the project above target groups selected (policy makers, CIOs etc..) and must be qualified as active organisations, with effective way to work with their members, like conferences, workshops, newsletters, effective website, etc.

3.5.1. Major Cities of Europe – IT Users group (MCE)

The Major Cities of Europe (www.majorcities.eu) network is involved in the project activities in connection with the City of Prato who hosts the network secretariat. MCE is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enable the sharing of experiences, of ICT knowledge and solutions among its members, mainly CIOs and managers of Cities.

1 http://eucpn.org/

http://www.majorcities.eu/



MCE main initiatives are:

the annual conference that gathers more than 250 participants from all Europe

workshops dedicated to specific key priorities and innovation initiatives of Local Governments

a knowledge data base

a website containing the key information

a newsletter sent to an address list with more than 1000 people dealing with ICT and innovation, both from Local Governments and from companies.

3.5.2. Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CCRE – CEMR)

The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CCRE - CEMR) is the largest organization of local and regional governments in Europe. Its members are national associations of towns, municipalities and regions from 39 countries. Together these associations represent about 100,000 local and regional authorities.

The organization was founded in Geneva in 1951 by a group of European mayors. Regions were later allowed to join as well, hence the name Council of European Municipalities and Regions.

CEMR works to promote a united Europe that is based on local and regional self-government and democracy. To achieve this goal it endeavours to shape the future of Europe by enhancing the local and regional contribution, to influence European law and policy, to exchange experience at local and regional level and to cooperate with partners in other parts of the world.

CEMR works in many fields of activity such as regional policy, transport, the environment, equal opportunities, and governance. Its committees and working groups seek to influence draft EU legislation to make sure the interests and concerns of local and regional authorities are taken into account from the earliest stages of the EU legislative process.

Link: http://www.ccre.org/

3.5.3. EUROCITIES

EUROCITIES is the network of major European cities. It comprises the local governments of more than 140 large cities in over 30 European countries. It is a well known and active organization with significant influence within the EU context. The members are Mayors but management at all levels and professionals participate in the different workgroups.

Its main objective is to influence and work with the EU institutions to respond to common issues that impact the day-to-day lives of Europeans. The organization aims at shaping the opinions of stakeholders in Brussels to ultimately shift legislation in a way that helps city governments address the EU's strategic challenges at the local level. A large part of this work is aimed at reinforcing the role and place that local government should have in a multi-level governance structure.

http://www.ccre.org/



The network is committed to support the development of the policies regarding the following fields: the inclusive city, the prosperous city, the sustainable city, the creative city, participation and co-operation. One of the specific objectives is expressly targeted on the improvement of urban security and this makes the EUROCITIES network an interesting target for the City.Risks project.

Link: http://www.eurocities.eu/main.php

3.5.4. The City Mayors Foundation

The City Mayors Foundation, an international think tank dedicated to urban affairs, consists of professionals working together to promote strong and prosperous cities as well as good local government. Established in 2003, City Mayors encourages city leaders from across the world to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to long-standing urban problems such as housing, transport, education and employment. City Mayors also debates ways to meet the latest environmental, technological, social and security challenges, which affect the well-being of citizens.

The website is interesting and contains a number of valuable data and publication, a specific session is dedicated to urban crime and security.

Link: www.citymayors.com

www.worldmayor.com

3.5.5. United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Founded in May 2004, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government. Based in Barcelona, UCLG is the largest local government organization in the world. Representing over half the world’s population, the cities and association members of UCLG are present in 136 UN Member States across seven world regions – Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Eurasia, Middle East and West Asia, Latin America and North America. Over 1000 cities are direct members of United Cities and Local Governments, as well as 112 national associations which represent all the cities and local governments in a single country.

This is a global organization with the mission of being an “advocate” of the key Local Government issues at policy level. Because of its global reach covering over half of world’s population it might be an interesting channel but it must be verified whether some diffusion of City.Risks information can be obtained in Newsletters, on their web and in some selected European events. Should it be the case, this could be a good base on which to launch possible broader actions.

Link: http://www.cities-localgovernments.org/sections.asp

3.5.6. METROPOLIS

METROPOLIS is the World Association of Major Metropolises. Created in 1985, the METROPOLIS Association is represented by more than 100 members from across the world and operates as an international forum for exploring issues and concerns

http://www.eurocities.eu/main.php

http://www.citymayors.com/

http://www.worldmayor.com/

http://www.cities-localgovernments.org/sections.asp



common to all big cities and metropolitan regions. Metropolis also manages the Metropolitan Section of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) – see above.

METROPOLIS wishes to build a global alliance between metropolitan governments and their associates to promote urban sustainability.

Promoting a cross-sector approach and inter-relations between the different aspects of urban sustainability: environmental, economic, social and cultural.

Acting both in already urbanized metropolitan regions and ones in a phase of strong urban growth.

Defining public-private action and cooperation projects between institutions and levels of government.

Working to reduce the sustainability gap and to promote innovation and metropolitan governance.

METROPOLIS has the following priorities in the current period:

Promoting mutual learning, training and capacity building

Speeding up innovation to find solutions to city problems

Contributing toward metropolitan governance to reduce metropolitan imbalances

Promoting financial and technical assistance to metropolitan areas in developing countries

Representing and giving political visibility to metropolitan interests before national and international institutions

Promoting a reflection on trends in the evolution of cities and metropolitan policies

The commission dealing with “innovation and governance”, chaired by the city of Barcelona is an important focal point to be verified.

As a section of UCLG the same considerations as for UCLG apply here.

Link: www.metropolis.org

3.5.7. The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN)

EUKN is the prime network for urban policy makers, practitioners and researchers throughout Europe offering high quality knowledge and services which inspire them to make cities a better place to live, work and play.

EUKN shares knowledge and experience on tackling urban issues. The key objective of EUKN is to enhance the exchange of knowledge and expertise on urban development throughout Europe, bridging urban policy, research and practice. Thirteen EU Member States (National Focal Points, NFP), EUROCITIES, the URBACT Programme and the European Commission participate in this European initiative. EUKN is characterised by a demand-driven approach, based on the needs of urban practitioners and policymakers. EUKN has developed an extensive, high-quality knowledge database, based on shared standards and protocols. This extensive e-library provides free access to case studies, research results, policy documents, context issues, network descriptions, updated news and meetings.

http://www.metropolis.org/



Over the past five years, EUKN has proven itself to be an efficient one-stop urban shop, providing city practitioners, policy makers, project managers and other users with high quality urban knowledge and experiences. At the same time, EUKN is more than a virtual knowledge network. It constitutes an international platform stimulating the exchange of knowledge and experiences during international and national meetings, and offering topical dossiers, expert opinions and specific practical assistance through the National Focal Points of the network and support for EU Presidencies.

EUKN focuses on the following main themes:

social inclusion & integration;

housing;

transport & infrastructure;

urban environment;

economy, knowledge & employment;

security & crime prevention;

skills & capacity building.

The key products provided by EUKN are:

eLibrary for urban professionals: EUKN’s interactive European portal website offers a comprehensive knowledge base containing more than 5,000 validated documents on urban research, policy and practice. In addition, the National Focal Point websites provide country and context-specific knowledge in their national eLibraries;

Topical dossiers on urban priority policy areas: EUKN maintains topical dossiers on issues such as demographic change, integration and local economic development;

Conferences: EUKN facilitates face-to-face contact through national and international meetings and conferences;

Interviews: Every month, EUKN interviews key stakeholders who give their expert opinion on an urban topic;

Research and Practice Review and National Newsletters: EUKN published a bi-weekly European newsletter on one of the seven main knowledge domains, and most National Focal Points publish a monthly national newsletter;

News and meetings: EUKN’s website gives an overview of recent development and the most important meetings on urban issues;

The eLibrary contains four types of documents:

descriptions of best or proven practices;

summaries of practical research;

descriptions of successful policies;

descriptions of relevant networks.

EUKN looks as a very interesting source of information and cooperation. Contacts with EUKN program might be established to evaluate the value of the program for City.Risks and opportunities for cooperation.

Link: http://www.eukn.org/

http://www.eukn.org/



3.5.8. NET-EUCEN Thematic Network

The NET-EUCEN is co-funded by the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme. Its scope is to enable citizens to define and shape the everyday life services they prefer and to enable innovative visions to shape the EU future services.

NET-EUCEN is a network of subjects all interested in the enhancement of the application of the user-centric paradigm in Europe and shall be seen as a multi-disciplinary e-Government Community. The network of Organisations covers the whole supply chain of the user-centred services: Users, Associations, Public Administrations, Software Developers, Services Providers, Cultural Facilitators and Field Experts. The participation is ruled by simple procedures and the management is smooth, thus giving to all the interested Organisations the opportunity to contribute in the Network activities.

NET-EUCEN is supported by an open group of experts acting as peer reviewers of the project proceedings.

All the members and experts actively contribute to the achievement of the following goals:

Build an international Community of interest and practice

Scout opportunities for innovative ICT based e-Gov solutions

Enable user centricity as a condition for services take up

Develop a set of scenarios as scalable examples of user-centricity

Enhance convenience for the users of e-services

Facilitate the interactions of Public Administrations with citizens

Enhance reliability of services provision of administrations at all levels

Define guidelines for the correct application of user centricity

Establish a set of indicators as benchmarking tool for administrations

This network appears to be interesting because of its mission and because of the value of the various members and experts involved.

Link: http://www.net-eucen.org/

3.5.9. European Forum for Urban Security (Efus)

It is a European network of 250 local authorities from 16 countries, set up in 1987 in Barcelona, on the initiative of Gilbert Bonnemaison, former Mayor of Epinay-sur-Seine, and under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The network aims to strengthen crime reduction policies and to promote the role of local authorities in national and European policies.

The network works on all major issues relating to urban safety and security, and builds up links between European local authorities by exchanging practices and information as well as through support and training. Furthermore, it acts as a link between local authorities on a national, European and international level.

http://www.net-eucen.org/



The main objective is to promote the role of local authorities through specific programmes, publications and research.

The network is located in Paris and a general assembly of all the members meets once a year. The Executive Committee consists of 32 local authorities, an elected President and 6 national Forums in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Portugal.

Members and partners are represented by local, regional, and national authorities, NGOs involved in crime prevention, and universities. Members are expected to pay a fee. Only local elected authorities have full membership.

The network provides the following services:

Opportunity to network with more than 250 European local authorities and access to a pool of international partners and experts

Implementation and supervision of European cooperation projects and work groups

Support to local policies

Information and technical assistance regarding European subsidies

Training

Study visits and trips

Invitation to conferences and seminars

Access to all of Efus’ resources: publications, practice sheets and to Efus Network, the collaborative platform for the exchange of experience and information in the area of urban security, reserved for Efus’ members.

Link: http://www.efus.eu

3.6. Standardization organizations

The work in the City.Risks project involves the management of web data and geospatial data. Thus, the relevant standardization organizations include the W3C consortium and the Open Geospatial Consortium.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) provides a consensus process that communities of interest use to solve problems related to the creation, communication and use of spatial information. The OGC provides open standards to allow spatial data and spatial processing, either simple or complex, and their integration into the Web and other networks.

http://www.efus.eu/

https://www.w3.org/

http://www.opengeospatial.org/



4. COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

4.1. Preferred communication channels

The communication channels are divided into internal and external communications. The internal interaction is between project partners, project board and project office. As asynchronous media the project is using email, for conferences Webex and short chatting skype. External communication includes interaction with various stakeholders affecting or been affected by the project. We have chosen twitter as a social media to target the scientific audience and SMEs interested into the project results. In addition, the development of the Open Innovation Hub in three languages (English, Italian and Bulgarian) has been scheduled, to bring communities together by spreading information and promoting the current technologies and their practical use in the domain of Urban Safety and Security.

In the following, we give a brief overview of the communication channels adopted in the project (snapshots of the website captured on 21/03/2015), further details are available in [2].

4.1.1. Direct contacts

Direct contact is an effective way to establish awareness and consensus and the City.Risks members will adopt this strategy whenever appropriate among their peers.

The partner cities (London Waltham Forest, Rome and Sofia) will foster the dissemination of project results among their city partners in specific initiatives and occasions, by sending personalised emails and/or through dedicated communication channels.

Some direct contact will be activated through the Major of Cities Network that includes almost 40 European cities. Comune di Prato is a member of the network and will leverage such role to introduce the project objectives and results.

An important role will be accomplished by the project External Advisory Board, whose members will contribute in identifying interested targets.

4.1.2. The CITY.RISKS website

The City.Risks website (www.cityrisks.eu) collects all the relevant information about the consortium and the project items (Figure 1). It is organised in 5 main sections: Home Page, Project Overview, Consortium, Media Centre and Contacts.

http://www.cityrisks.eu/



Figure 1. Main page of the City.Risks website.

Home page

The website main page includes a general overview on the project objectives, products and application scenarios. It also reports the partners' logo, links to latest tweets and news, contacts, credits and a button for subscribing to the project newsletter.

Figure 2 shows a couple of snapshots of the website main page, reporting project products and use cases, consortium partners' logos and links to tweets and news.



Figure 2. Snapshots of the website main page.

Project Overview

This section reports the project objectives and includes two sub-sections: Project Structure and Deliverables. The former describes the work package structure (Figure



3), while the latter includes the project deliverables, that can be downloaded from the appropriate link (Figure 4).

Figure 3. The "project structure" section in the website.

Figure 4. The "deliverable" section in the website.



Consortium

This section includes all the relevant information on the project partners with links to each website (Figure 5). It also includes the "Project Boards" subsection, which reports information both on the Ethics Board and the External Advisory Board appointed by the consortium (Figure 6).

Figure 5. The "consortium" section in the website.

Figure 6. The "project boards" section in the website.



Media Centre

This section includes several dissemination tools, like project description, factsheets in different languages and the project logo in different resolutions (Figure 7). It also presents two sub-sections:

1. "News" sub-section, that collects news regarding the project including those published on different media (Figure 8);

2. "Events" sub-section, reporting main events and conferences identified by partners for possible presentation of project results (Figure 9).

Figure 7. The "media centre" section in the website.



Figure 8. The "news" section in the website.

Figure 9. The "event" section in the website.

Contacts

In this section a form for information and requests is available, together with the Coordinator's main contacts (Figure 10).



Figure 10. The "contact" section in the website.

4.1.3. Press releases

Each partner will be responsible to drive PR activities at national level by involving national and local media and he will report such activities inside his own dissemination plan.

Whenever appropriate, such information will be also reported in the website in the News section.

4.1.4. Newsletters

Newsletter managed by partners and by others related subjects (e.g. the Major Cities of Europe network and PIN S.c.r.l) will report news on the projects outcomes in order to keep the audience updated on the project results.

The Consortium will also publish a specific newsletter addressed to the subscribers' list collected through the website, to report about the main project results. The plan is to publish one newsletter at the end of the first year and at least two per year in the following years.

The first newsletter, related to the main project activities in the first year, was sent on April 8th, 2016. (http://project.cityrisks.eu/wp-content/uploads/dissemination/Newsletter1_April2016.pdf).

http://project.cityrisks.eu/wp-content/uploads/dissemination/Newsletter1_April2016.pdf

http://project.cityrisks.eu/wp-content/uploads/dissemination/Newsletter1_April2016.pdf



4.1.5. The Project dissemination deliverables

The available dissemination deliverables include the following items.

Project logo

The project logo was selected by the Consortium with a poll among different choices. It is available on the website in different resolutions and formats and it should be used in all communication and dissemination products.

Figure 11. The project logo.

Project leaflet

Available in English, Bulgarian, Italian, German, Greek and Swedish.



Figure 12. The project leaflet.

Factsheet

Available in English.

Figure 13. The project factsheet.



Roll-up

Four different versions of the project roll-up have been designed and they are all available on the project wiki. Figure 14 shows two examples:

Figure 14. Examples of the project roll-up.

Presentation template

A template for PPT presentations is available on the project wiki to ensure homogeneity when presenting the project issues.

4.1.6. Events and Conference

A list of events and conferences related with the project topics is included in the website and is kept updated regularly by the Consortium. Some of the events will be attended by the partners and will be the occasion to present project results.

4.1.7. CITY.RISKS dedicated conference

A dedicated event will be organised by the end of the project in order to illustrate project results and to deploy the most appropriate business solutions for exploitation.

4.1.8. Papers and articles

Both scientific partners and technical partners will produce several papers on the project topics, aiming at disseminating the project approach, technical solutions and



results in their peer communities. Information on the produced papers will be available also on the project website.

4.1.9. Social Media

The Consortium has activated a Twitter profile (https://twitter.com/cityrisks) and a LinkedIn group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8423949), as these were assumed to be the most effective social media to transfer in a quick and effective way information on the project results to interested targets. Moreover, most of the partners have their own Twitter profile, through which messages on the project activities will be re-tweeted, in order to enlarge the audience. Also partners' existing LinkedIn profiles will be used to share information on the project (Table 1).

Further social media connections will be also provided by Major Cities of Europe (MCE) and PIN S.c.r.l., who are involved to support the project dissemination activities.

Table 1. Summary of Twitter and LinkedIn profiles.

Profile Twitter LinkedIn

SYNYO GmbH

www.twitter.com/synyo/ https://www.linkedin.com/synyo/

Freie Universität Berlin

https://twitter.com/fu_berlin

Malmö University

https://twitter.com/MalmoUniversity

https://twitter.com/mahcriminology

Fraunhofer FOKUS

https://twitter.com/fraunhoferfokus

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fraunhofer-fokus

Institute for Crminal Policy Research

https://twitter.com/ICPRtweet

Comune di Prato

https://twitter.com/comunepo

Infili Technologies PC

https://twitter.com/infililtd https://www.linkedin.com/company/infili---information-intelligence-ltd

G4S https://twitter.com/search?q=g4s&src=tyah

https://www.linkedin.com/company/g4s

Roma https://twitter.com/roma

https://twitter.com/cityrisks

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8423949

http://www.twitter.com/synyo/

https://www.linkedin.com/synyo/

https://twitter.com/fu_berlin









https://twitter.com/ICPRtweet

https://twitter.com/comunepo

https://twitter.com/infililtd

https://www.linkedin.com/company/infili---information-intelligence-ltd

https://www.linkedin.com/company/infili---information-intelligence-ltd

https://twitter.com/search?q=g4s&src=tyah

https://twitter.com/search?q=g4s&src=tyah

https://www.linkedin.com/company/g4s

https://twitter.com/roma



Capitale

Waltham Forest

https://twitter.com/wfcouncil

PIN S.c.r.l. https://twitter.com/pinpoloprato

Major Cities of Europe

https://twitter.com/majorcitieseuro

https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=4880775

Figure 15. Twitter page on the project website.

4.1.10. Open Information Hub

Open Information Hub (OIH) is a platform aiming to target all project stakeholders

including communities. The information gathered during the project will be

formatted as blog posts and published on the OIH. The hub will be provided in three

languages English, Italian and Bulgarian and will be managed by the Pilot cities as a

tool to disseminate information and prepare the end users for the pilot execution.

https://twitter.com/wfcouncil

https://twitter.com/pinpoloprato







4.1.11. Project video

Comune di Prato with the support of PIN S.c.r.l. has produced a video to illustrate the project concepts and objectives. The video is available on the project You Tube channel (https://youtu.be/JmDU2hthq2k) and will be used in several dissemination occasions, like conferences and events.

4.1.12. Mailing lists and collaborative platforms

The consortium members can access several mailing lists and collaborative platforms in relation to their institutional activities and profile, that can be used to publish news on the project activity and to enlarge the project audience and to distribute information on the project results.

4.2. Initial dissemination plans of CITY.RISKS partners

4.2.1. Space Hellas S.A.

Space Hellas S.A. is a leading system integrator and value-added service, application and solution provider in the areas of ICT and Security for the enterprise, government and defence sectors, certified according to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 standards. Space Hellas is a Greek SME (~240 employees) established in 1985 with headquarters situated in Athens, branch offices in the four biggest cities in Greece, and international presence, with subsidiaries in Cyprus, Romania, Serbia, Malta, and with activities in Albania and the Middle East. Space Hellas is listed in the Athens Stock Exchange since September 2000. Its total turnover for 2014 was 41M€.

Planned dissemination activities SPH dissemination and communication activities will mostly aim at maximizing the potential of commercial exploitation of the project results.

Exhibitions present an excellent opportunity to reach a wide audience, especially potential customers as well as technology providers. SPH will leverage their already planned participation to exhibitions (for promotion of other products) to also present the City.Risks concept and results. At the early stages of the project, dissemination means for exhibitions will be mostly restricted to printed material (leaflets, posters) as well as videos. As the project progresses and technological solutions are implemented, hands-on portable demo platforms will be developed, in order to more clearly present the benefits and the capabilities of the City.Risks solution.

During the course of the project, SPH will also seek publicity to the wide public via the mass media, printed and electronic, whenever a publishable update to the project progress exists (e.g. realization of a milestone, such as kickoff or completion of the implementation or validation phases). Targeted press releases will be produced, as brief, concise and self-contained as possible, avoiding the use of

https://youtu.be/JmDU2hthq2k



technical terminology so as to be easily understood by the non-experts also. Reachout to mass media will also be pursued by means of interviews or articles.

A communication tool to be also exploited is the company’s “SPACETalk” printed newsletter, which is printed annually and distributed in hardcopy to a large group of company customers and partners. It is also available online in pdf format at the corporate website (www.space.gr )

Last but not least, a limited number of scientific publications in national and international conferences will also be pursued.

Target groups SPH will mostly aim at disseminating and communicating the project endeavor and results to potential customers within the “smart city” ecosystem. These are:

Municipal authorities: SPH has already close contacts with municipalities –in Greece and also abroad- with strong background on smart city technologies, and in fact has already implemented a number of commercial projects around these concepts.

Law enforcement agencies: SPH maintains relationships with the Hellenic Police, for which it has implemented a number of large-scale projects.

Security service providers: SPH will promote certain technological aspects of the City.Risks platform, which could reinforce the existing capabilities of security service providers.

Technology providers: SPH will seek collaborations within the technology provider domain also, towards integrating all of some of the City.Risks results in already existing technology platforms.

Summary of dissemination activities in the first year

Date Name of the Event Location Tool Target audience

18-19/3/2016

Security Project conference

Athens, Greece Presentation & booth

Security Professionals

29-30/3/2016

“Sm@rt Cities - Digit@l Citizens” conference

Athens, Greece Presentation Smart Cities stakeholders

27-30/6/2016

EUCNC 2016, European Conference on Networks and Communications

Athens, Greece Scientific paper (submitted)

R&D community in the fields of IoT/M2M

March 2016 SPACEtalk company printed newsletter

Article: “City.Risks: Increasing the sense of safety of citizens in large cities”

Company partners and customers

March 2016 HORIZON – The EU Research and Innovation Magazine

Article: “How a smartphone could find your stolen

R&D community and wide public

http://www.space.gr/




bike”

4.2.2. Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS

The FOKUS Competence Centre for Electronic Safety and Security Solutions for the Public and Industries (ESPRI) develops innovative approaches towards safety solutions and offers (i) development of technologies and methodologies for early hazard identification and warnings in the public and private domain as well as their connection to established safety solutions, e.g., in control centres, (ii) exchange of information between experts from research institutions, public agencies and the industry and (iii) demonstration and evaluation of collaborative safety solutions from the citizen's point of view in cooperation with well-known industry partners.

Planned dissemination activities

1. Publication of conference and workshop papers targeting conferences/workshops for smart city and urban safety

2. Linking City.Risks to the (ongoing) national research activity ENSURE in Germany; ENSURE aims at attracting and mobilizing volunteers who can improve crisis management in urban areas. The focus of the project is on encouraging citizens with professional skills and expertise to support local emergency services and provide emergency aid.

3. Integrating selected City.Risks features into the national disaster alert system KATWARN in Germany; KATWARN is used by authorities to alert the public in case of hazardous situations, such as large-scale fires, power failures, bomb alerts or extreme weather conditions. KATWARN is available for free as a smartphone app and alternatively, with lower functionality, as a text message and email service.

4. Displaying City.Risks ideas, approaches and solutions in context with other safety related projects in the safety lab of Fraunhofer FOKUS; the safety lab is a demonstration room and research laboratory, providing experts, decision-makers and politicians with an independent framework to discuss interaction of new technologies as well as legal, organizational, social-scientific, and economic challenges.

5. Presenting the City.Risks project on the Web site of Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Target groups Dissemination activities will address mainly researchers operating in the field of smart city and urban security, policy makers and stakeholders in the field of emergency services. Citizens and associations will also be indirectly targeted by having access to results via KATWARN. Summary of dissemination activities in the first year


29.10.2015 Dialog Innovation Berlin Presentation and Security forces




Centre Public Safety Discussion

Summary of planned dissemination activities in the following years of the project Approximate


May 2016 Publish short project description

Berlin FOKUS Web-Site Research, Policy makers, Public

4.2.3. Athena Research & Innovation Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies

The Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) is a research institute within the Research and Innovation Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies "Athena". IMIS was founded in 2007 with the mission to conduct research in the area of data management and large-scale information systems. The research at IMIS has a strong collaborative aspect, and ranges from basic to applied research. The collaborative aspect is expressed in that research is conducted with national and international partners from industry as well as academia, often also in the context of novel and innovative projects.


a) Academic publications in scientific conferences and workshops in the area of Data Management.

b) Author academic journal publications in the area of Data Management. c) Linking City.Risks with relevant national and European research projects which

are conduced with the collaboration of IMIS. d) Disseminate the City.Risks project to events targeted towards the general public. e) Present information about the City.Risks project on the IMIS website.

Target groups

Dissemination activities will be mainly dedicated to scientific communities concerned with data management and data analytics, with particular reference to the areas of geospatial data management, databases and data management, data mining, analytics and machine learning, linked data and big data.



18/03/2016 EDBT Research 9: Spatial data processing (19th International Conference on

Bordeaux, France Conference Database researchers, practitioners, developers and




Extending Database Technology - EDBT)

users

18/03/2016 EDBT Research 12: Spatial and mobile data (19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology - EDBT)

Bordeaux, France Conference Database researchers, practitioners, developers and users

06/11/2015 23rd International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL)

Bellevue, WA, USA Poster - Demo GIS experts

4.2.4. SYNYO GmbH

SYNYO GmbH, a leading SME based in Vienna, Austria, is an independent research, innovation and technology hub that explores, develops and implements novel technologies to tackle business and societal challenges. In City.Risks, SYNYO is mostly involved into elaborating the business logic of the end products, dissemination activities through digital media and the coordination of the three Pilots planned to be carried out during the third project year.

Planned dissemination activities The planned dissemination activities to be carried throughout the project include:

Web site: Providing an updated status of the project through project website (project.cityrisks.eu). And promoting this project through our corporate website and our network.

Social media: Posting tweets with highlights about the projects or related tools or technologies

Web technology: Building a social platform (Open Information Hub) where posts are written in three languages to create communities and raise communication about challenges at hand (www.cityrisks.eu)

National and international conferences: Presenting the project in conferences related to data, IoT, Urban Safety and Security, Public Security and other related topics.

Digital Design: Design and productions of factsheets to highlight the interesting facts and results of the project.

Printed materials: Design and production of a project brochure to gather all results and findings from the project including use cases, user stories, survey infographics and more.

Newsletters: Contributing to the creation of Newsletters.



Dissemination materials and workshops: Design, publish and print dissemination materials which will come at hand during the piloting phase including short graphical manuals, testing scenarios and factsheets.

National and international networks: Spreading the voice through our network while collaborating in new Horizon2020 project, local networks and online communities.

Target groups The target groups will depend on the media used to disseminate the project related information. Through our dissemination challenges we plan to address these target groups:

Local government through the Open Information Hub and other digital dissemination materials

Civil society with all before mentioned dissemination artifacts

Policy makers, city administrators and police forces through the open Information Hub, web portal and the practical use of the end products

Researchers and academics through twitter and scientific work published at the Open Information Hub

SMEs through the Open Information Hub where they will promote their solutions and concepts

Related networks of our work domain through all dissemination activities Summary of dissemination activities in the first year


16-14 November 2015

European Data Forum 2015

Luxembourg Factsheet, Presenting the project through SYNYO booth.

Industry professionals, researchers, policymakers and members of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy community initiatives.

Summary of planned dissemination activities in the following years of the project Approximate


April 2017 EENA Conference 2017

Not defined Presentation and Demonstration

Industry professionals, researchers, and members of National and International communities in Public Safety and Security



Approximate Date

Name of the Event Location Tool Target audience

May-June 2016

Major cities of Europe

Annual Conference

Florence, Italy Factsheet, Networking

City representatives, Industry professionals, SMEs, Governmental agencies

29-30 June 2016

European Data Forum 2016

Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Factsheet, Networking

Industry professionals, researchers, policymakers and members of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy community initiatives.

4.2.5. Infili Technologies PC

Infili is a recently founded SME but its core team aggregates many years of experience in both R&D projects (funded under national and EU grants) and also in large commercial projects of million Euros scale. Infili is performing R&D work to design and implement innovative solutions in the areas of:

Web data mining: Information retrieval and Information extraction from unstructured sources.

Semantic-Web: Ontology oriented & and knowledge enriched Web perception.

AI: Artificial and information intelligence Web3.0 applications, sentiment analysis.

Infili plans to exploit the outcomes of City.Risks by:

enhancing its competences on information extraction algorithms

developing new software components within the context of the project that can be integrated in a later stage into the product solutions offered by the company

use the developed algorithms and methodologies (e.g. evacuation management) in other related problems, i.e. in network management.

To this end its overall dissemination plan is structured around: increasing awareness of the City.Risks results and possible usability in the industry, liaise with business partners for knowledge transfer and business opportunities, present its research work in scientific journals and conferences.

Planned dissemination activities a) Press release and conferences: we plan to produce at least one press release

during the lifecycle of the project (preferably at the second half of the project). b) Social media: to have a strong presence in social media communicating the

progress and results of the City.Risks project.



c) National and international conferences: we plan to present our work in at least two international conferences.

d) Exhibitions: Infili aims to take part into at least one exhibition in the area of security industry.

e) Papers: We plan to author (or jointly co-author with other partners of the consortium) at least on journal paper.

Target groups The main target groups of our dissemination activities include:

1) Industrial players and policy makers in the area of ICT & Security. The purpose of this dissemination is to promote the City.Risks results, explain the benefits of the project results and try to find potential customers or adopters.

2) Scientific Community / Researchers, by publishing research results in the conferences and journals.

Summary of planned dissemination activities in the following years of the project

Approximate Date


May 26-27, 2016

3rd

International Conference on Cryptography, Cyber Security and Information w\rfare

Athens, Greece Presentation of City.risks project

Researchers, Security forces personnel, Policy makers

4.2.6. Institute of Communications and Computer Systems – ICCS

The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems is the ranking research institute on communications and computers in Greece. ICCS is affiliated with the National Technical University of Athens. ICCS is a non profit Academic Research Body established in 1989 by the Ministry of Education in order to carry research and development activities in the fields of all diverse aspects of telecommunications, computer systems and techniques and their application in a variety of areas such as Computer Science, and Big Data Analytics, with emphasis in Data Mining, Spatio-temporal Event Detection, Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, Deep Belief Networks, PDE Segmentation in Image Analytics, Clustering and Pattern Analysis, Riemannian Manifold Modelling, Principal Component Analogies and Dimensionality Reduction, Nearest Neighbor Search and Vector Quantization, Auto-Encoders, Transceivers, Software and Hardware Engineering, Telematics And Multimedia Applications, Transport Applications, Control Systems.

Planned dissemination activities ICCS plans to disseminate City.Risks activities through numerous channels. This includes scientific papers in journals such as:

IEEE

o Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on

o Computers, IEEE Transactions on



o Software, IEEE

o Distributed Systems Online, IEEE

o Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

ACM

o Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and

Applications

o Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

ELSEVIER

o Advances in Engineering Software

o Advanced Engineering Informatics

o Information and Software Technology

Other

o Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Australian Computer Soc. Inc.

o Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Academic Press Ltd. Elsevier Science Ltd.

o International Journal of Web Services Research, Idea Group Publishing o International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge

Engineering, World Scientific Publ. Co. PTE Ltd. o Empirical Software Engineering, Springer

We will also target various exhibitions and conferences with relation to the project’s activities such as:

International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC)

International Supercomputing Conference (ISC)

eChallenges

Internet of Services

ServiceWave

ICT events

International Broadcast Convention (IBC)

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)

IGT World Summit of Cloud Computing

USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud)

International Conference on Service Computing (SCC)

International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ISCOC)

IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM)

ACM Special Interest Groups on Management of Data (SIGMOD)

International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)

International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)



Target groups As a research institute affiliated with a University, ICCS will focus its dissemination activities in actions targeting researchers. Moreover, and due to the diversity of the performed research, and multiple connections with various stakeholders. Policy makers, security stakeholders (police authorities) and city managers will also be contacted and informed about City.Risks Developments.



20-22/10/2016 ICT 2015 Innovate Connect Transform

Lisbon, PT Face to face meetings

ICT companies, Cities, Large industries

21/01/2016 5G PPP phase 2 stakeholder’s meeting

Brussels, BE Face to face meetings

Telecom Industry, Large Companies, SMEs

17/03/2016 5G PPP Information Day

Bologna, IT Face to face meetings

Telecom Industry, Large Companies, SMEs

27-30/6/2016 European Conference on Networks and Communivations 2016

Athens, GR Paper/Poster Telecom Industry, Large Companies, SMEs

Summary of dissemination activities in the following years of the project For some events, the Call for Papers was too early and City.Risks results have not been ready in time for the submission to the current edition. However, the events will be considered in their next edition and are included here as reference of the kind of channels to be followed to share the City.Risks results. An interesting prospect is the conferences organized from time to time from various bodies, where in addition to the presentation of City.Risks features face to face discussions can be of great help to expose City.Risks concepts and solutions to interested parties, as well as potential collaborations through networking. Each year a significant number of conferences are organized and in a vast scientific domain. The most prestigious ones are conferences that are organized each year as part of a series. An indicative list of such activities follows. Note that this is not an exhaustive list and additional ones will be identified as the project progresses.

Approximate


27-30 June 2016

EuCNC 2016 Athens (GR) Paper/Poster High Tech industry, Telecom companies

22-23 August 2016

Safe Cities Conference

Melbourne, Australia

Paper/Poster Telecom and ICT researchers

21 September 2016

Internet of Things

Athens, Greece

Face to face meetings

Businesses related to the IoT sector



Approximate


27-30 June 2016

EuCNC 2016 Athens (GR) Paper/Poster High Tech industry, Telecom companies

4-8 December 2016

IEEE Globecom Washington DC, USA

Paper/Poster Telecom and ICT researchers

7-8 March 2017

World Cyber Security Congress

London, UK

Exhibition/ Poster

Information Security officers

23-27 April 2017

IEEE Infocom Istambul, Turkey

Paper Poster Telecom and ICT researchers

4.2.7. Freie Universität Berlin

The Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading universities in the world and distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is also one of the largest universities in Germany, offering degree courses in more than a hundred subjects for 34,000 students - of which 15 percent come from other countries. The Databases and Information Systems Group at Freie Universität Berlin focuses on both application-oriented and basic research issues in the domains of modeling and algorithm design for data application, namely information retrieval and spatial databases. With the emergence of mobile devices, the focus has shifted to location-based services. Orthogonally, an important part of the research work of the group tackles the appropriateness of event-based systems and event-driven architectures in this context.


The main focus of planned dissemination activities of Freie Universität Berlin is on writing, publishing and presenting research papers and posters at international conferences and journals

Offering students the chance to complete their bachelor and master degree theses on interesting topics within the context of the City.Risks project.

Target groups

Researchers: The main target groups of our dissemination activities during the project will be researchers and students at the university. Researchers include mainly PhD candidates who write research papers or design scientific posters and offer

Students: University students will be offered potential topics encountered in the City.Risks project on which they can write their bachelor or master degree theses. These theses are supervised by university researchers (PhD candidates and professors).





05.2015 Project information published on website

http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/en/inf/groups/ag-db/projects/City_Risks/index.html

Website Researchers and students

11.2015 ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference

Seattle, USA Poster and paper presentation

Researchers


Approximate


05.2016 Poster presentation at ACM Web Science conference (http://www.websci16.org/)

Hannover, Germany

Poster Researchers

2016/2017 Attendance of relevant conferences and events

Presentation of research papers and scientific posters

Researchers

4.2.8. Institute for Criminal Policy Research, University of London

ICPR, in its different incarnations, has now been in existence for twenty years. It has established itself both as an academic research centre and as a highly productive provider of short- and middle-term policy research for central and local government. Its policy reports are targeted first and foremost at politicians and their advisors, and at senior managers and practitioners within the criminal justice system and in related fields. ICPR has made a significant contribution to the development of several areas of criminal policy.

ICPR will lead the work package on providing baseline information on crime, fear of crime, perceptions of risks in the pilot sites and will assess the level of preparedness in the pilot sites to be involved in addressing those risks through the use of new technologies. We will also developing the process and schedule for citizens’ feedback during the pilot.

Planned dissemination activities a) Press release: There have been no press releases related to the project to date.

However, where possible, press releases will be used to inform wider public audiences about the project.

b) Web sites: To direct external traffic to the project website, a URL (http://www.cityrisks.eu/) to the City Risks website appears on the ICPR

http://www.cityrisks.eu/



homepage and under individual research team profiles. The ICPR website is updated regularly with news items and is a useful channel for communicating project-related news.

c) Newsletters: There have been no news items related to the project featured in newsletters to date. However, a project update will feature in the upcoming in monthly departmental newsletter. This newsletter is circulated within the Criminology department, the Law School and affiliated research centres at Birkbeck.

d) Social media: ICPR (@ICPRtweet) follows @cityrisks on Twitter and our account is used to tweet/retweet project-relevant material.

e) National and international conferences: Where possible, the research team at ICPR will contribute to/attend conferences to disseminate project findings.

f) Papers: Findings from the surveys conducted in the three pilot sites as part of Task 2.2 will form the basis of academic journal articles. The user feedback element of the project (Task 6.2) will provide further material for academic outputs.

g) National and international networks: ICPR is a member of several high profile criminology networks. This includes, the British Journal of Criminology and The European Journal of Criminology. Project findings can be presented at these annual conferences.

h) Education: The research team at ICPR are actively involved in teaching on the undergraduate/postgraduate criminology programme at Birkbeck. The work carried out as part of the project, namely the surveys undertaken as part of the pilot trials, will be used in teaching material. As advocates of research-led teaching, ICPR is keen to disseminate the findings of the project through teaching activities.

Target groups a) City managers: We work closely with local authorities throughout London and in

other areas nationally and the findings the project can be communicated via these channels.

b) Policy makers: ICPR has very close links with local and national policy makers interested in crime prevention, including The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC). This provides a potential future platform for disseminating the findings of the City Risks project.

c) Citizens and associations: With a daily presence on social media platforms such as Twitter, contact with various criminal justice agencies and third sector organisations, progress and other project outputs can be shared.

d) Researchers: Academic outputs (e.g. in the form of academic journal articles and conference papers) that stem from the project, aimed at both academic and non-academic audiences will be disseminated.

e) Students: Where possible, the findings of the project will be used in teaching activities. In particular, the project and its findings can be used to inform student learning in the following areas: sociological/criminological research methods, crime prevention, crime, technology & society.





02.2016 ICPR’s website updated with link to the City Risks’ website

Web-based National/international users of the website

4.2.9. Malmö University

The Department of Criminology at Malmö University undertakes research on a broad spectrum of criminological themes, including fear of crime, hate crime, criminal careers, geography of crime, and crime prevention. The department is the leading national actor in the field of neighbourhood fear of crime studies, with associated staff involved in the development of methods used nationwide.

The Department of Criminology is involved in the initial phase of City.Risks with responsibility for conducting an in-depth analysis of urban crime. This task includes analyses on where criminal events occur, individuals involved in criminal activities, and when criminal events usually take place. In the later phases of the project, the Department of Criminology will analyse the feedback from the pilot site studies.

Planned dissemination activities a) Press release: Informing the media and thereby the public about the project. b) Web sites: Updates of the project’s progress on the University’s web site. c) Newsletters: Updates in the weekly newsletter provided by the faculty. d) Social media: The department’s twitter account will post information about the

project’s progress. e) National and international conferences: Attending conferences when possible in

relation to the department’s work in the project. f) Papers: Publishing papers in scientific journals when possible. This dissemination

activity is highly dependent on the quality of the data generated from the pilot trials.

g) National and international networks: The European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN) is an EU-organisation that could be of certain interest for the project’s dissemination activities. EUCPN aims to share and gather good practices and information on crime prevention and City.Risks may contribute to their knowledge base. Moreover, future dissemination activities within City.Risks may be presented at the annual conference held by the EUCPN.

h) Education: The department’s work in the project will be used in activities related to the education provided at the university. Integrating research and education is considered important at the department which can be perceived as a way of dissemination for an audience of future academics.

Target groups a) City managers: The department works closely with the Malmö’s public bodies

and if City.Risks can be useful for the municipality, this will be mediated to the city managers.



b) Policy makers: Any useful outcomes of the project will be disseminated to any interested policy maker, both locally, nationwide and internationally.

c) Citizens and associations: Through various media channels, citizens and organisations interested in the project will be informed whenever there are any news of the project’s progress.

d) Researchers: Scientific papers and conference presentations are directed at an academic audience and professionals interested in the work within the project.

e) Students: The University aims to integrate education and research as students are the future researchers and thus an important audience for dissemination activities.



2015-07-15 New project targets European security app

www.mah.se Press release

National media

2015-07 News articles in several Swedish national newspapers

Sweden Paper Readers of several Swedish newspapers

2015-07-25 Interview with Marie Torstensson Levander

Malmö Interview Readers of the main local newspaper

4.2.10. Roma Capitale

Roma Capitale is the largest municipality, in terms of population (2.870.143) and in territorial extension (1.287,36 km²), among the 8.047 municipalities of Italy. It is a representative and collegial Organization that has functional and organizational autonomy and it is responsible for planning and political/administrative control. It is divided into 15 administrative areas, called “Municipi”. Roma Capitale consists of twenty Departments and several others bodies, such as the Mayor's cabinet, the Attorney’s Office, etc. It has a total of approximately 24.000 employees, of whom about 6.000 belong to the Local Police. In particular, the “Extra-Departmental Office – Sustainable City and Urban Security” of Roma Capitale, involved in the City.Risks Project, performs functions relating to the planning and coordination of interventions intended to improve the urban security conditions and to strengthen the defense and protection of public security/safety.


Activating collaboration with Roma Capitale Communication Department to develop a dissemination plan that, in the first phase will aim to spread information about the City,Risks’s project objectives and in the subsequent phases, to advance its state, to disseminate information about its results and to promote the tools for its implementation.

Information about the project will be published on the Roma Capitale Website, with related documents to download and links;



A press release for the launch of the survey was published in Roma Capitale Website;

Roma Capitale twitter and Facebook follow City Risk project.

Target groups In Rome, the project will address public officials, law enforcement agencies, researchers and the associations committed to fight violence against women, as well as those engaged in providing instruments to prevent bicycles theft. In order to ensure these associations’ full commitment to the project’s objectives, Roma Capitale will identify those who possess the necessary know-how.


Date Name of the Event Location Tool

Target audience

03/02/2016 Press release for the survey

Roma Capitale Website

Web General public

04/02/2016 Press release on the project issues

Antifurto Casa website

Web General public

27/03/2016 Press release OmniRoma agency website

Web General public


Roma Capitale Website

Web General public


Antifurto Casa website

Web General public

4.2.11. The London Borough of Waltham Forest

The London Borough of Waltham Forest is located in north east London with a diverse population of 258,000. The Borough works in partnership with police and other stakeholders to deliver a wide range of interventions to tackle urban gangs, violence against women and girls, preventing violent extremism, anti-social behaviour as well as high volume crimes including burglary, robbery and motor vehicle crime. In Waltham Forest the emphasis is on high quality front line services that provide environmentally healthy and safe neighbourhoods for the people that live and do business here. Working with European partners on the City.Risks project is a natural progression as Waltham Forest seeks to make its mark as a high tech environmentally friendly urban centre.

Planned dissemination activities a) Press release and conferences – There has been no press release on City.Risks

project so far but Waltham Forest has advised our comms section and will step up activity when the process for engaging with citizens is finalized.

b) Web sites – LWF has a website which will include information about the City.Risks project.



c) Mailing lists – there are mailing list for our stakeholder groups, resident (citizen) groups, schools, voluntary sector, local SMEs, that can be used to disseminate the project results and improve citizens' involvement.

d) Newsletters – As soon as the local project activities are consolidated, it is intended to distribute newsletters to local stakeholders in Waltham Forest.

e) Social media – the LWF twitter account will be used to spread information on the project results.

Target groups a) City managers – local council staff, community safety partnership members. b) Policy makers – senior managers, elected representatives. c) Citizens and associations – individuals, community groups, neighbourhood

watches. d) Security forces – police, fire and rescue, enforcement, envirocrime.



Ongoing Internal meetings Waltham Forest Verbal updates on City.Risks

Internal council/key stakeholders


Approximate Date


July 2016 Workshop Walthamstow Presentation Local citizens, police, businesses, community groups

September 2016

Workshop Walthamstow Presentation Local citizens, police, businesses, community groups

4.2.12. G4S Security Solutions EOOD

G4S Bulgaria is a leading national security provider. The company is a global expert in the assessment and management of security and safety risks for buildings, infrastructure, materials, valuables, people and society.

G4S Bulgaria is represented in the market of security services in the country mainly in the segment of the business areas of "transmission, transportation, processing and storage of cash" (CIT) and “manned security”. From 2013, the company is taking successful steps in the direction of the development and expansion of services related to Electronic Security Systems – ESS.



Planned dissemination activities The following dissemination activities will be carried out:

Press releases – information on the project and its results will be published in national newspapers and information channels.

Web sites – information on the project and its results will be published on web sites dedicated to security issues.

Papers – papers will be published in journals dedicated to security and safety issues

Conferences – project results will be presented in national and international conferences dedicated to the security and safety issues.

Target groups Dissemination actions will be mainly directed to specialists in the field of urban safety and security and security forces, but some information delivery will be also directed to citizens and associations, to communicate project results and enlarge the interested audience. Summary of dissemination activities in the first year


28.10.2015 Link to the project site and press release published

Website of Bulgarian chamber for protection and security

Press release Security forces, Citizens and associations

November 2015

Website security.bg (in Bulgarian)

www.security.bg Press release Security forces, Citizens and associations

December 2015

Publication of an article in magazine “Security”

Magazine “Security”

Paper Security forces, Citizens and associations

December 2015

Publication and link of the project on the website of Bulgarian Industrial Association.

www.bta.bg Press release City managers, Policy makers, Researchers

January 2016 Publication of an article in a daily newspaper

www.trud.bg Paper City managers

January 2016 Publication of an article in 21 info websites

21 info websites web General public


Approx. Date


16-19.03.2016 Security Expo 2016 Sofia Presentation Security forces, Citizens and associations

April 2016 Publication of an article in magazine

Sofia Newspaper Security forces, Citizens and



Approx. Date


“Security” associations

June 2016 Publications in websites

Sofia Web publication Security forces, Citizens and associations

September 2016

Publications for the progress of the project on the sites of our partners.

Sofia Web publication Security forces, Citizens and associations

December 2016

Press conference Sofia City managers, Policy makers, Security forces, Citizens and associations

February 2016 Press conference Sofia City managers, Policy makers, Security forces, Citizens and associations

Periodically Publications for the progress of the project on the sites of our partners.

Sofia Web publication City managers, Policy makers, Security forces, Citizens and associations

4.2.13. Comune di Prato

The city of Prato is located in Tuscany and counts around 190.000 inhabitants (370,000 in the Province). Through its statute, the City of Prato promotes civic duties and solidarity among its citizens and co-operation and agreements with the other local authorities. Directly or through participated consortia, the City of Prato manages the main services of the town, including culture, libraries, museums, school logistics, routes, territory planning and services for disadvantaged groups. Prato is a leading municipality in the decentralisation of procedures and has been very active in Information Technology since many years. Since 1996, the City of Prato has started to provide information to the public by the Internet through its Civic Network, by involving other municipalities and other parts of the public sector, with the aim of improving the use of ICT among local entities, integrating ICT resources, promoting the use of electronic data and document exchange and stimulating participation and democracy through telematic tools.

Planned dissemination activities a) Websites: Information on the project will be published on the institutional web

sites managed by the Municipality of Prato (e.g. www.buoneprassi.prato.it), where the link to the project website will be also reported. Moreover, information on the project and the link to the website will be included in the PIN's website (www.poloprato.unifi.it) and in the Major Cities of Europe (MCE) website (www.majorcities.eu)

http://www.buoneprassi.prato.it/

http://www.poloprato.unifi.it/

http://www.majorcities.eu/



b) Newsletters: A project newsletter will be designed and to report project results to the subscriber list. The MCE newsletter will be also used to send information on the project work and related results. PIN S.c.r.l. will use its newsletter channel (in Italian) to report on project results.

c) Social media: the Municipality social media will be used to disseminate news on the project, the content will be in Italian due to the local target. PIN S.c.r.l. will use its Twitter channel and MCE will offer its twitter and LinkedIn channels to reach an international audience

d) Workshops: Specific workshops on the project topics might be organised with the support of MCE, in order to involve some of the MCE members in the presentation of project results.

e) Exhibitions: The Municipality of Prato is committed in the organisation of the MCE annual conference, where the project results will be presented. The Municipality is also participating in national events organised by ANCI, the national association of Italian municipalities, where the project results will be reported.

f) National and international networks: The Municipality of Prato is a member of the Major Cities of Europe network, gathering the CIOs and ICT managers of several European cities. The network will represent an important channel for the dissemination of project results, as summarised above.

Target groups a) City managers and Policy makers: This target will be addressed particularly in the

MCE annual conference and through the MCE newsletter. b) Citizens and associations: Although Prato is not a pilot city in the project, the

main findings and results will be communicated to citizens and associations through the Municipality web site and other communication channels and in public events.

c) Security forces: Project findings and results will be communicated particularly to the Municipality Police who has the role of managing local urban security. Contacts with other security forces (Police, Carabinieri) might be established.



18/08/2015 Buone Prassi Prato www.buoneprassi.prato.it Press release

General public

22/09/2015 Il progetto City.Risks

www.poloprato.unifi.it Project description (in Italian)

Students, Academics, General public

25/09/2015 Notte dei Ricercatori (Bright 2015)

Prato Poster, Brochure

General public

02/10/2015 The City.Risks project

www.majorcities.eu Project description

CIOs, ICT managers, researchers

22/12/2015 News from EU www.majorcities.eu Newsletter CIOs, ICT managers,




projects researchers

03/03/2016 News on the BLE sensor

www.poloprato.unifi.it Press release

Students, Academics, General public

04/04/2016 News on the project

JOINUP website Web article Researchers

05/04/2016 Introducing City.Risks

E-Forum website Web article E-Gov Reasearchers, PAs

08/04/2016 News on the BLE sensor

www.majorcities.eu Newsletter CIOs, ICT managers, researchers

Summary of planned dissemination activities in the following years of the project Date Name of the Event Location Tool Target audience

30 May-1 Jun 2016

Major Cities of Europe Annual Conference

Florence (IT) Presentation and Demonstration

CIOs of European cities, business, researchers



5. Conclusions

This document reports the dissemination strategy developed by the City.Risks consortium in terms of actions and main targets.

It summarises the activated dissemination channels, including social media, and the dissemination material produced by the consortium. Moreover, it gives an overview of the dissemination activities led by partners in the first year, furtherly detailed in the annex.

Table 2 summarises the dissemination material produced by the consortium in the first year and the activated communication channels, while Table 4 summarises the main analytics of the website from June 1, 2105 to March 31, 2016. The highest number of contact was in February, since in that period the first results of the project activities were reported, both on the website and by social media channels.

Table 2. Summary of dissemination material and communication channels.

Dissemination material and channels

Project brochure 1 translated in all consortium languages

Project factsheet 1 in English

Project newsletter 1 in English

Project video 1 in English

Project roll-up 4 different versions in English

Project website 1 in English

Project logo high resolution, medium resolution, low resolution

Twitter profile 1

LinkedIn group 1

You Tube channel 1

Table 3. Main website analytics (June 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016).

Website analytics

Sessions 2112

Page views 4618

Avg. session duration 2.19

Table 4 summarises the dissemination actions carried out by consortium partners in the first year, while Figure 16 shows the distribution of dissemination activities according to the different typologies: national and international press releases



(including newspapers, websites, newsletters), papers and books, national and international events.

Table 4. Summary of dissemination activities in the first year.

Dissemination activities

Scientific papers 8

National events 4

International events 1

National press releases 38

International press release 3

TOTAL 54

Figure 16. Distribution of dissemination activities in the first year.

The main percentage is represented by national press releases, and this is coherent with the proposed dissemination approach, since in the first year a great effort was put in increasing the project knowledge and awareness at local/national level by each partner, according to its role. The production of scientific papers was is also at a good level, particularly as far as technological aspects developed in the project are concerned.

In the following years of the project, the number of participated events will increase, due also to the concurrent development of pilot actions and to the consolidation of the technological approach to be demonstrated.



Annex I: Dissemination activities in the first year

Reporting of Scientific Papers/Books

Partner: Athena Title: Similarity Search on Spatio-Textual Point Sets Status: Published Published in/by: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) Date: March, 2016 Summary: User-generated content on the Web increasingly has a geospatial dimension, opening new opportunities and challenges in location-based services and location-based social networks for mining and analyzing user behaviors and patterns. The applications of such analysis range from recommendation systems to geo-marketing. Motivated by these needs, querying and analyzing spatio-textual data has received a lot of attention over the last years. In this paper, we address the problem of matching point sets based on the spatio-textual objects they contain. This is highly relevant for users associated with geolocated photos and tweets. We formally define this problem as a Spatio-Textual Point-Set Join query, and we introduce its top-k variant. For the efficient treatment of such queries, we extend state-of-the-art algorithms for spatio-textual joins of individual points to the case of point sets. Finally, we extensively evaluate the proposed methods using large scale, real-world datasets from Flickr and Twitter. Link: http://openproceedings.org/2016/conf/edbt/paper-175.pdf

Partner: Athena Title: Identifying and Describing Streets of Interest Status: Published Published in/by: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) Date: March, 2016 Summary: The amount of crowdsourced geospatial content on the Web is con- stantly increasing, providing a wealth of information for a variety of location-based services and applications. This content can be analyzed to discover interesting locations in large urban environments which people choose for different purposes, such as for entertainment, shopping, business or culture. In this paper, we focus on the problem of identifying and describing Streets of Interest. Given the road network in a specified area, and a collection of geolocated Points of Interest and photos in this area, our goal is to identify the most interesting streets for a specified category or keyword set, and to allow their visual exploration by selecting a small and spatio-textually diverse set of relevant photos. We formally define the problem and we present efficient algorithms, based on spatio-textual indices and filter and refinement strategies. The proposed methods are evaluated experimentally regarding their effectiveness and efficiency, using three real-world datasets containing road networks, POIs and photos collected from several Web sources. Link: http://openproceedings.org/2016/conf/edbt/paper-150.pdf

http://openproceedings.org/2016/conf/edbt/paper-175.pdf

http://openproceedings.org/2016/conf/edbt/paper-150.pdf



Partner: Athena (In collaboration with FU Berlin) Title: Spatio-temporal keyword queries for moving objects Status: Published Published in/by: Date: November, 2015 Summary: Many applications involve queries that combine spatial, temporal and textual filters. In this paper, we address the problem of efficient evaluation of queries that perform spatial, temporal and keyword-based filtering on historical movement data of objects which are additionally associated with textual information in the form of keywords. Our work combines and builds upon concepts and techniques for spatio-temporal and spatio-textual queries, proposing two hybrid indexes for this purpose. An experimental evaluation of the proposed approaches is presented, using real-world datasets from two different types of sources. Link: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2820783.2820845

Partner: Freie Universität Berlin

Title: Keyword Based Retrieval of Frequent Location Sets in Geotagged Photo Trails.

Status: Submitted

Published in/by: ACM Web Science conferernce 2016. Authors: Paras Mehta, Dimitris Sacharidis, Dimitrios Skoutas and Agnès Voisard

Date: February 2016

Summary:

We propose and study a novel type of keyword search for locations.Sets of locations are selected and ranked based on their co-occurrence in user trails in addition to satisfying a set of query keywords. We formally define the problem, outline our approach, and present experimental results.

Link: http://www.websci16.org/accepted-papers


Title: Spatio-Temporal Keyword Queries for Moving Objects

Status: Published

Published in/by: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Authors – Paras Mehta, Dimitrios Skoutas, Agnès Voisard

Date: November 2015

Summary: Many applications involve queries that combine spatial, temporal and textual filters. In this paper, we address the problem of efficient evaluation of queries that perform spatial, temporal and keyword-based filtering on historical movement data of objects which are additionally associated with textual information in the form of keywords. Our work combines and builds upon concepts and techniques for spatiotemporal and spatio-textual queries, proposing two hybrid

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2820783.2820845

http://www.websci16.org/accepted-papers



indexes for this purpose. An experimental evaluation of the proposed approaches is presented, using real-world datasets from two different types of sources.

Link: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2830000/2820845/a55-mehta.pdf


Title: Privacy-Preserving Crowd Incident Detection: A Holistic Experimental Approach

Status: Published

Published in/by: 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management. Co-author (from City.Risks): Agnès Voisard

Date: November 2015

Summary: Detecting dangerous situations is crucial for emergency management. Surveillance systems detect dangerous situations by analyzing crowd dynamics. This paper presents a holistic video-based approach for privacy-preserving crowd density estimation. Our experimental approach leverages distributed, on-board pre-processing, allowing privacy as well as the use of low-power, low-throughput wireless communications to interconnect cameras. We developed a multicamera grid-based people counting algorithm which provides the density per cell for an overall view on the monitored area. This view comes from a merger of infrared and Kinect camera data. We describe our approach using a layered model for data aggregation and abstraction together with a work- flow model for the involved software components, focusing on their functionality. The power of our approach is illustrated through the real-world experiment that we carried out at the Sch¨onefeld airport in the city of Berlin.

Link: http://www.dviz.cn/em-gis2015/files/EM-GIS_2015_paper_11.pdf

Partner: ICCS Title: Theft Detection Using Internet of Things BLE-based Participatory Sensing Concepts Status: Submitted Published in/by: EuCNC 2016 (conference paper) Date: 28 February 2016 Summary: The objective of this paper is to present a participatory platform that allows asset-tracking tasks to be crowd-sourced to a community. Each asset is equipped with a customized BLE tag that actively sends signals, thus becoming a beacon. Once an item (bicycle, motorbike, mobile asset) with such a BLE module installed is stolen, the owner shall inform the authorities, which in turn shall send a broadcasting signal via the Internet to activate the BLE sensor. To discover the asset with the tag, participants use their GPS enabled smart phones to scan BLE tags through a specific smartphone client application and report the location of the asset to the City.Risks centralized server so that owners can locate their assets. In the following sections, we describe our efforts deploying a BLE sensing system for asset theft recovery, leveraging sensor networking principles and techniques. Link: (if online)

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2830000/2820845/a55-mehta.pdf

http://www.dviz.cn/em-gis2015/files/EM-GIS_2015_paper_11.pdf



Partner: Space Hellas Title: “Theft Detection using Internet of Things BLE-based participatory Sensing Concepts” Status: Submitted Published in/by: (submitted to) EUCNC 2016, European Conference on Networks and Communications, Athens, Greece Date: June 27-30, 2016 Summary: The City.Risks project [1] aims at increasing the perception of security of citizens in cities by activating in a more transparent and sustainable way by their participation in communities, through which information and interventions can be provided, both to proactively protect citizens from falling victims to criminal activities, as well as to reactively provide more timely and effective response and assistance. In this context, the project intends to develop a prototype theft identification sensor. City.Risks will design and implement a discrete sensor based on a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to locate stolen objects within a specific urban range through the usage of a participatory sensing system built by the City.Risks network of citizens. The objective of the project is to create a participatory platform that allows asset-tracking tasks to be crowd-sourced to a community. Each asset is equipped with a customized BLE tag that actively sends signals, thus becoming a beacon. Once an item (bicycle, motorbike, mobile asset) with such a BLE module installed is stolen, the owner shall inform the authorities, which in turn shall send a broadcasting signal via the Internet to activate the BLE sensor. To discover the asset with the tag, participants use their GPS enabled smart phones to scan BLE tags through a specific smartphone client application and report the location of the asset to the City.Risks centralized server so that owners can locate their assets. In the following sections, we describe our efforts deploying a BLE sensing system for asset theft recovery, leveraging sensor networking principles and techniques. We discuss the system architecture, design and implementation of sensor as well as operational scenarios. Link: N/A

Reporting of Events

Partner: Fraunhofer FOKUS Title: Dialog Innovationszentrum Öffentliche Sicherheit (Dialogue Innovation Centre Public Safety) Location: Berlin Date: 29.10.2015 Target: Police Presidents Description: Presentation and discussion of City.Risks ideas with 60 members of the AG Polizeipräsidenten (Working Group: Police Presidents) from all over Germany as part of the first dialogue between Innovation Centre Public Safety, Fraunhofer FOKUS and the WG Police Presidents. Fraunhofer presented an overview of the project; afterwards concrete use cases where introduced and discussed; the feedback was gathered and documented. Material: Slides used to present the project and initiate the discussion can be found on https://owncloud.fokus.fraunhofer.de/index.php/s/bjIHsfe5Gv6gI9M

https://owncloud.fokus.fraunhofer.de/index.php/s/bjIHsfe5Gv6gI9M



Local/National/International: (please choose one) National

Partner: Comune di Prato Title: Bright 2015 – La notte dei ricercatori in Toscana Location: Prato (Italy) Date: 25/09/2015 Target: Citizens, researchers, public administration Description: The Researchers' Night is an initiative promoted by the European Commission aiming at creating opportunities for the interaction between researchers and citizens to spread scientific culture and knowledge of the profession of researcher in an informal setting . For the occasion, the University of Florence has programmed many events in several universities, including Prato. The Tuscany Researchers' Night is celebrated within the "Bright2015" initiative (http://www.bright2015.org/). Agenda 14,00: IoMappo: online participated cartography 17,30: Research tells about itself 18,30: Researchers tell about their work and its impact on everyday life 19,30: Don Chisciotte – Reading on stage presented by the University acting

company Binario di Scambio Material: City.Risks brochure (in Italian) City.Risks brochure (in English) Photo1 Photo2 Local/National/International: Local Partner: Space Hellas Title: 4th Security Project conference: “Secure Cities: Actions, Cooperations, Technologies” Location: Athens, Greece Date: 18-19/3/2016 Target: Security professionals Description: Security Project is an national conference held annually, gathering more than 800 security professionals from Greece and abroad. This was the fourth event in the series, which focused on the vision towards “safe cities” as a prerequisite for productivity, prosperity, freedom and democracy. Agenda (in Greek): http://www.securityproject.gr/4o-security-project-2016/programma/ Space Hellas (Platinum sponsor of the conference) presented its vision for the safe cities of the future, also including the concepts of community-based security, as promoted in City.Risks. Material: Presentation: http://www.securityproject.gr/presentations/2016/day1/konstantinidis.pdf Local/National/International:

http://www.bright2015.org/

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64948924/City_Risks_Flyer_IT.pdf

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64948924/City_Risks_Flyer_EN.pdf

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64948924/Foto1_25_09_15.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64948924/Foto2_25_09_2015.jpg

http://www.securityproject.gr/4o-security-project-2016/programma/

http://www.securityproject.gr/4o-security-project-2016/programma/

http://www.securityproject.gr/presentations/2016/day1/konstantinidis.pdf



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Partner: Space Hellas Title: “Sm@rt Cities - Digit@l Citizens” conference Location: Athens, Greece Date: 29-30/3/2016 Target: Smart Cities stakeholders Description: The conference was organized under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Interior and the Region of Attica. Its aim is to inform the personnel of major municipalities and regions about important aspects of future “smart cities”. Website: www.mitropolis.gr Space Hellas supported the conference as a Sponsor and gave a presentation focused on security aspects of future smart cities. The presentation included the City.Risks vision for community-enforced safety. Material: N/A Local/National/International: National Partner: SYNYO Title: European Data Forum Location: Luxembourg Date: 16-17 October 2015 Target: Description: The European Data Forum (EDF) is a meeting for industry professionals, researchers, policymakers and members of community initiatives to discuss the challenges of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy and to develop suitable action plans for addressing these challenges. Of special focus for the EDF are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), since they are driving innovation and competition in many data-driven economic sectors. The range of topics discussed at the European Data Forum ranges from novel data-driven business models (e.g. data clearing houses), and technological innovations (e.g. Linked Data Web) to societal aspects (e.g. open governmental data as well as data privacy and security). Programme can be found at http://2015.data-forum.eu/program Material: CityRisks Factsheet 1: http://project.cityrisks.eu/wp-content/uploads/dissemination/City_Risks_Flyer_EN.pdf SYNYO Secure Societies Brochure: http://synyo.com/downloads/SYNYO.H2020.Secure.Societies.pdf SYNYO Company Profile Brochure: http://synyo.com/downloads/SYNYO.Corporate.Profile.pdf SYNYO Website Project Overview: http://www.synyo.com/projects/city-risks/ Local/National/International: International

http://www.mitropolis.gr/

http://2015.data-forum.eu/program

http://project.cityrisks.eu/wp-content/uploads/dissemination/City_Risks_Flyer_EN.pdf

http://synyo.com/downloads/SYNYO.H2020.Secure.Societies.pdf

http://synyo.com/downloads/SYNYO.Corporate.Profile.pdf

http://www.synyo.com/projects/city-risks/



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Partner: Freie Universität Berlin Headline: EU H2020 City.Risks Published in: Website of the Freie Universität Berlin Date: 22.02.2016 Scan: none Link: http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/en/inf/groups/ag-db/projects/City_Risks/index.html

Partner: G4S Headline: CITY.RISKS project / Проект „Градски рискове“ Published in: Website of Bulgarian chamber for protection and security – 1. Link in “Partners’ column” and 2. press release for the content of the project Date: 28.10.2015 Scan: The text of the article is in Bulgarian. http://bkos.org/index.php?MlW-gRWnIVSjMVWHUtKbcJSvY5efIJeDMxerIlKzU5avQZeXUtaHkZKLg5ar&page=1 (2) Link: http://bkos.org/index.php?MlW-gRWLI5SnMNKDI1KHchSrcNKncJafI9OjIRePUtKr&page=1 (1)

Partner: G4S Headline: CITY.RISKS project / Проект „Градски рискове“ Published in: Security.bg - information about the project and the progress Date: November 2016 Scan: Link: http://www.security.bg/ekspertno/city-risks-proekt-za-izbyagvane-i-smekchavane-na-riskovete-ot-prestapnostta-v-gradska-sreda

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Partner: G4S Headline: CITY.RISKS project / Проект „Градски рискове“

http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/en/inf/groups/ag-db/projects/City_Risks/index.html

http://bkos.org/index.php?MlW-gRWnIVSjMVWHUtKbcJSvY5efIJeDMxerIlKzU5avQZeXUtaHkZKLg5ar&page=1

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http://www.security.bg/ekspertno/city-risks-proekt-za-izbyagvane-i-smekchavane-na-riskovete-ot-prestapnostta-v-gradska-sreda

http://www.security.bg/ekspertno/city-risks-proekt-za-izbyagvane-i-smekchavane-na-riskovete-ot-prestapnostta-v-gradska-sreda

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http://opk-news.eu/city%2Brisks%20%E2%80%93%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%20%D0%B8%D0%B7/1/MderIVanMBe3YJaTUlaPcNe-INeTYVefgpKLcxafIVKrc5OLYNKXMZKPI5eLcNOXMRefYpKrc9KHIBK7

http://opk-news.eu/city%2Brisks%20%E2%80%93%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%20%D0%B8%D0%B7/1/MderIVanMBe3YJaTUlaPcNe-INeTYVefgpKLcxafIVKrc5OLYNKXMZKPI5eLcNOXMRefYpKrc9KHIBK7

http://novini-bg.net/city%2Brisks%20%E2%80%93%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%20%D0%B8%D0%B7/1/MNe-c5aLYNKHYJObg5OTcRe3cZePYFePUpeTIFabcNe-c9aTYZKfMBKTIVeTIJaPMBeLMFKHIxe3IBez

http://novini-bg.net/city%2Brisks%20%E2%80%93%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%20%D0%B8%D0%B7/1/MNe-c5aLYNKHYJObg5OTcRe3cZePYFePUpeTIFabcNe-c9aTYZKfMBKTIVeTIJaPMBeLMFKHIxe3IBez



Link: CITY.RISKS – проект за избягване и смекчаване на рисковете от престъпността в градска среда

Partner: G4S Headline: CITY.RISKS project / Проект „Градски рискове“ Published in: БСК - information about the project and the progress Date: 15.01.2016 Scan: Link: Стартира проект за избягване и смекчаване на рисковете от престъпността в градска среда

Partner: Malmö University Headline: New project targets European security app Published in: Malmö University web site originally. Information about the project was then spread to basically all Swedish national newspapers through a news article by Sweden’s main news agency: TT. All major newspapers published the article. Date: 2015-07-15 Scan: Link: http://www.mah.se/english/News/News-2015/New-project-targets-European-security-app-/

Partner: Malmö University Headline: När känner vi oss otrygga i staden? (When do we feel unsafe in city?) Published in: Sydsvenskan newspaper Date: 2015-07-15 Scan: Link: http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/nar-kanner-vi-oss-otrygga-i-staden/

Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: Progetto City.Risks Published in: www.buoneprassi.prato.it Date: 18/08/2015 Scan: NA Link: http://www.buoneprassi.prato.it/?act=i&fid=56&id=20150817152527432 Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: Il progetto City.Risks (in Italian) Published in: www.poloprato.unifi.it (PIN's official website) Date: 22/09/2015 Scan: NA Link: http://www.poloprato.unifi.it/it/ricerca/laboratori/laboratorio-di-telematica-e-telerilevamento/progetti/cityrisks.html Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: City.Risks Published in: www.majorcities.eu (MCE's official website)

http://oprr-news.eu/city%2Brisks%20%E2%80%93%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%20%D0%B8%D0%B7/1/MZKrIRaPMReDMVOfgpOPcRKjcJKXYFKfgxeXIRaDcBezcxOXMBKfYRKTItKHIROHMVKfYtKDctKzcde3

http://oprr-news.eu/city%2Brisks%20%E2%80%93%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%20%D0%B8%D0%B7/1/MZKrIRaPMReDMVOfgpOPcRKjcJKXYFKfgxeXIRaDcBezcxOXMBKfYRKTItKHIROHMVKfYtKDctKzcde3

http://www.bia-bg.com/news/view/21504

http://www.bia-bg.com/news/view/21504

http://www.mah.se/english/News/News-2015/New-project-targets-European-security-app-/

http://www.mah.se/english/News/News-2015/New-project-targets-European-security-app-/

http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/nar-kanner-vi-oss-otrygga-i-staden/

http://www.buoneprassi.prato.it/?act=i&fid=56&id=20150817152527432


http://www.poloprato.unifi.it/it/ricerca/laboratori/laboratorio-di-telematica-e-telerilevamento/progetti/cityrisks.html

http://www.poloprato.unifi.it/it/ricerca/laboratori/laboratorio-di-telematica-e-telerilevamento/progetti/cityrisks.html



Date: 2/10/2015 Scan: NA Link: http://www.majorcities.eu/misc/eu-projects/ Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: News from EU projects teaming with MCE Published in: MCE newsletter Date: 22/12/2015 Scan: NA Link: http://www.majorcities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Announcement-of-the-2016-conference-in-Florence-May-30th-June-1st.pdf Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: Progetto CITY.RISK - Il sensore BLE che aiuta a localizzare gli oggetti rubati (in Italian) Published in: www.poloprato.unifi.it (PIN's official website) Date: 03/03/2016 Scan: NA Link: http://www.poloprato.unifi.it/it/news/articolo-home.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1242&cHash=7d7ad0c6184e7cbaed3e970db9044519 Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: CityRisks - a H2020 funded project to bring value into the urban safety and security pan-european challenges. Published in: JOINUP website Date: 04/04/2016 Scan: NA Link: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/150495 Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: Introducing City.Risks and ROUTE-TO-PA. Published in: E-Forum website Date: 05/04/2016 Scan: NA Link: http://www.eu-forum.org/item/78-introducing-city-risks-and-route-to-pa Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: City.Risks is now designing a theft detection sensor based on Bluetooth Low Energy technology Published in: MCE Newsletter Date: 08/04/2016 Scan: NA Link: http://www.majorcities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Florence-2016-

http://www.majorcities.eu/misc/eu-projects/

http://www.majorcities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Announcement-of-the-2016-conference-in-Florence-May-30th-June-1st.pdf

http://www.majorcities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Announcement-of-the-2016-conference-in-Florence-May-30th-June-1st.pdf


http://www.poloprato.unifi.it/it/news/articolo-home.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1242&cHash=7d7ad0c6184e7cbaed3e970db9044519



https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/150495

http://www.eu-forum.org/item/78-introducing-city-risks-and-route-to-pa

http://www.majorcities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Florence-2016-Conference-by-Major-Cities-of-Europe.pdf



Conference-by-Major-Cities-of-Europe.pdf Partner: Comune di Prato Headline: City.Risks Newsletter – April 2016 Published in: City.Risks Newsletter Date: 12/04/2016 Scan: NA Link: http://us13.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7526c80d3b6064a1e82f06125&id=8e8b1c3cc8 Partner: Roma Capitale Headline: “Telefonini e tablet per la sicurezza urbana: Roma con Londra città-test per progetto Ue” Published in: Agenzia di stampa OmniRoma Date: 27/03/2015 Scan: NA Link: http://www.omniroma.it/news_visualizza.php?Id=36435 Partner: Roma Capitale Headline: “Sicurezza urbana attraverso smartphone e tablet. Roma aderisce a City.Risks”

Published in: Roma Capitale Website Date: 30/03/2015 Scan: NA Link: https://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/it/newsview.page?contentId=NEW836175 Partner: Roma Capitale Headline: “Progetto europeo City.Risks, Roma si interroga sulla sicurezza” Published in: Roma Capitale Website Date: 03/02/2016 Scan: NA Link: https://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/it/newsview.page?contentId=NEW1042517 Partner: Roma Capitale Headline: “Sicurezza a Roma con progetto City.Risks” di Rocca, Massimiliano. Published in: Online review "Antifurto casa" Date: 04/02/2016 Scan: NA Link: https://www.antifurtocasa.info/sicurezza-a-roma-con-progetto-city-risks/ Partner: Space Hellas Headline: City.Risks: Increasing the sense of safety of citizens in large cities (in Greek) Published in: SPACEtalk (Space Hellas annual printed newsletter) Date: March 2016 Scan:

http://us13.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7526c80d3b6064a1e82f06125&id=8e8b1c3cc8

http://us13.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7526c80d3b6064a1e82f06125&id=8e8b1c3cc8

http://www.omniroma.it/news_visualizza.php?Id=36435

https://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/it/newsview.page?contentId=NEW836175

https://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/it/newsview.page?contentId=NEW1042517

https://www.antifurtocasa.info/sicurezza-a-roma-con-progetto-city-risks/

https://www.antifurtocasa.info/sicurezza-a-roma-con-progetto-city-risks/



Link: http://www.space.gr/EmentorImages/File/Newsletter/SPACETALK_MAR2016.pdf

Partner: Space Hellas Headline: How a smartphone could find your stolen bike Published in: HORIZON – The EU Research and Innovation Magazine Date: March 2016 Scan:

http://www.space.gr/EmentorImages/File/Newsletter/SPACETALK_MAR2016.pdf



Link: http://horizon-magazine.eu/article/how-smartphone-could-find-your-stolen-bike_en.html

http://horizon-magazine.eu/article/how-smartphone-could-find-your-stolen-bike_en.html

http://horizon-magazine.eu/article/how-smartphone-could-find-your-stolen-bike_en.html



Bibliography

[1] “Some 212 million people live in Europe’s 500 largest cities", http://www.citymayors.com/features/euro_cities.html, retrieved April/2016.

[2] City.Risks Consortium, Deliverable D7.1 – Project website and web 2.0 visibility.



List of Acronyms

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MCE Major Cities of Europe: the independent organisation of Local Government CIOs and ICT Managers from cities all over Europe, aiming at improving the performance of Local Government through the use of Information Technology.

SME Small and Medium Enterprises are businesses whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used in the European Union and by international organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO)

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