Johanniter Österreich Ausbildung und Forschung gemeinnützige GmbH (JOAFG,
https://www.johanniter.at/angebote/forschung/) is
part of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe in Austria and aims to provide health related knowledge to the broad public
(e.g. first aid lectures), as well as training and education to medical professionals in care and emergency
medical services. In numbers, JOAFG is providing first aid training to roughly 11.000 people and is educating
up to 150 paramedics and emergency medical technicians per annum. Since a few years, JOAFG is working on VR
training for first responders in order to increase efficiency of education and training of its staff, so they
master crisis situations equally well as daily routines.
Since 2012, JOAFG is active in research projects from regional to international level, with special focus on
Health Research and Security Research. The academic team competences includes communication and social science,
socio-economics, public health, nursing sciences, gender studies, behavioral biology and risk management. The
researchers at Johanniter have a strong focus on methodology and applied science for health, mission tactics,
FR equipment and strategical development of situations. Within the last 7 years from personal protective
equipment up to C4C systems were co-designed and tested in several settings from basic usability testing up
to large scale exercises for testing concepts and products between TRL 4 to TRL 9.
Our main research topics in Health Research are:
- Care and care processes
- Innovative technology development (e.g. AAL, care management systems)
- Impact of health interventions on age-related decline
- Pandemic management
Our main research topics in Security Research are:
- Disaster Relief and Management
- Safety and equipment
- Evacuation
- Training and education
Our expertise:
- End user involvement, field trial management, support
- Evaluation: Evaluation Designs, profound knowledge of empirical methods in the Social Sciences
- Ethics: e.g. MEESTAR, EESSR, gender and diversity aspects, data protection issues
- Development of trainings: e.g. curricula development, for different target groups
- Business modelling: e.g. Business Model Canvas
Role within TeamAware
Within WP2 “System Architecture Specification and Design” JOAFG is involved in the legal requirements and
ethical principles of TeamAware, which includes the legal assessment of the entire project and the preliminary
analysis of the societal implications of the TeamAware within the scope of the identified requirements.
Additionally with expertise and competences in the field of medical first responders in the operations JOAFG
is heavily involved in WP13 “Demonstration and Validation“, where one of the main contributions to the project
will be in the realm of defining use cases and scenarios by representing and demonstrating real operational
requirements, needs, and user experiences. In TeamAware JOAFG is responsible for the WP14-lead “Dissemination,
Exploitation and Communication”, which involves Dissemination and Communication Activities, Exploitation
Activities and IPR Management, as well as Standardisation.
Birgit Schilcher is a project manager at the Johanniter Research and Innovation Centre and has a Master of
Science. She joined JOAFG in April and has extensive experience in international and national project and
risk management in the areas of technical planning, business integrations, divestments and environmental
disasters. Within TeamAware, Birgit Schilcher is Johanniter’s project manager.
Georg Aumayr is head of the Research and Innovation Centre of Johanniter in Austria, which he founded in 2012.
He studied Communication and was EMT for several years. As representative of Johanniter Austria in the
Austrian Standardisation Institute, he is working on ISO und EN. His field of activity is related to
security research and health prevention. Within TeamAware, Georg Aumayr is supporting in standardization,
networking and trial management.
Dr. Yvonne Prinzellner is a senior researcher focused on (e)Health- and Security-Research at the Research and
Innovation Centre at Johanniter Österreich based in Vienna, Austria. She has extensive experience as a
scientist with a background in Communication Sciences and Media Psychology at Universities as well as in
research projects on a national and international level. Additionally, she also works as a lecturer and
thesis supervisor at several Universities of Applied Sciences all across Austria. Her expertise and research
interests include Health Communication, Online Communication, Gender and Sexuality Studies, ICTs as well as
Digitization & Impact of Technological Innovations on society. Within TeamAware she is responsible for the
WP14-lead “Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication”.
Alisa Simon is a researcher focused on (e)Health- and Security-Research at the Research and Innovation Centre
at Johanniter Austria, especially within the field of Gender & Diversity. They have a master’s degree in
Gender Studies and their research focuses on vulnerable groups through an intersectional lense. They worked
within agendas of inclusion and gender-relevant aspects of research designs in international projects,
presented at national and international academic conferences and they have experience in publishing several
papers on gender and diversity. Within TeamAware Alisa supports dissemination and communication activities,
as well as the area of legal requirements and ethical principles when it comes to the system architecture
design and analysis.
Armin Vogl is an internationally recognized expert in the field of integrated border management, a trained
Schengen Evaluator and strategic risk analyst. He has been working in El Salvador, Kosovo, Albania and various
European, African and South American countries. Armin Vogl is able to offer strategic insight into
international migration, migration analysis and foresight but as well all security related aspects in the
field of policing, security management, police management and others. He has profound knowledge of
migration-related indicators and their interaction in the global context. Within TeamAware, Armin Vogl
will focus on use case planning and standardization.
