The new EIC Pathfinder project wants to develop laser-induced hierarchical micro-/nano-structures for controlled cell adhesion at implants. The LaserImplant project addresses wide-spread patient’s needs in the fields of dental prostheses and screws and plates for bone regeneration. The research team explains the current challenges as following: “A large application area of medical implants are currently…
The EIC Innovation LaunchPad call receives 118 submitted applications – the largest ever response since the beginning of the programme A very high number of applications received for the last EIC Innovation LaunchPad call under Horizon 2020.The results about the funded proposals will be released by the end of January 2021. 14 October 2020 was…
BoneFix aims to provide a novel class of bone adhesives that will allow for personalized surgical treatment of bone fractures via minimal invasive surgery under local anaesthesia. The BoneFix project aims to deal with the socioeconomics cost of fractures. While this medical condition occurs relatively commonly, as it is caused by accidents such as falls,…
Less than a year ago, in November 2019, the first EIC Transition to Innovation Activities Call closed the submissions and now, the very first of the selected projects are on their way to genuine technological and societal innovations. The EIC Transition to Innovation Activities is a new funding program under Horizon 2020 scheme. Its objective…
SWATCH – Savanna WATer and Carbon fluxes modelling integrating EartH Observation data Savannas (grasslands with scattered trees and shrubs) are among the most complex, variable and extensive biomes on Earth (~20%), covering more than 3 million ha in Europe and half of Africa. One fifth of the world’s population depend upon them, as an agrosilvopastoral…
DiverseNile The multidisciplinary ERC Consolidator Grant project DiverseNile will explore a crucial part of northern Sudan as a case study to reconstruct Bronze Age biographies (c. 1650–1200 BCE) beyond the present categories ‘Egyptian’ and ‘Nubian’. The main hypothesis is that degrees of cultural diversity become archaeologically more visible in the peripheral zones of the central…
A postcard showing a canopy bed: An ex-user of mental health services shares his story In an interview, Franz-Josef Wagner tells Elena Posth from Pfalzklinikum AdöR about his experiences as an ex-user of mental health services in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany Franz-Josef Wagner is the chairman of the state association of (ex-)users of mental…
Autonomous in Old Age “Lisa Ehrhardt, Head of Regional Offers – Living in Old Age” at Pfalzklinikum presents the work of their day centres for the elderly in the Palatinate Pfalzklinikum is a service provider for mental health in Southwest Germany. Its three certified day centres for the elderly focus on the promotion of cognitive…
The Werther effect Handling of suicide in the media Vivien Kogler and Alexander Noyon from Mannheim University of Applied Sciences investigate suicidality, the Werther effect and the role of medial presentation in this context. As guest authors at Pfalzklinikum they summarized the subject of the thesis written by Vivien Kogler. The Werther effect is the…
Launch and presentation of the 7th Higher Education in the World Report “Humanities and Higher Education: Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities” • The 7th Higher Education in the World Report (HEIW7) “Humanities and Higher Education: Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities” was presented on December 10th 2019 in Barcelona in an open event at…