Mental health in Germany: A focus on ward-equivalent treatment Laura Kirschbacher, Corporate Communications Manager at Pfalzklinikum AdöR talks about ward-equivalent treatment (WeT), a special kind of hometreatment, where a multi-professional team visits the patients at home. She accompanied WeT social worker Linda Seez to find out more Ward-equivalent treatment (WeT) is a complex psychiatric psychotherapeutic…
3D-FIREFLUC Taming the particle transport in magnetized plasmas via perturbative fields Wave-particle interactions are ubiquitous in nature and play a fundamental role in astrophysical and fusion plasmas. In solar plasmas, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuations are thought to be responsible for the heating of the solar corona and the generation of the solar wind. In magnetically confined…
COINFLIP Project: Coupled Organic-Inorganic Nanostructures for Fast, Light-Induced Data Processing. The main objective of this project is to design optical switches with a response time < 5 ps, a switching energy < 1 fJ/bit and compatibility with silicon technology to excel in high-speed data processing at low heat dissipation. This will be pursued by combining…
NanoBeam Project – Quantum Coherent Control: Self–Interference of Electron Beams with Nanostructures The method of coherent control employs the classical and quantum interferences to control the dynamics of electrons, atoms, and molecules in condensed matter systems towards non-equilibrium and a preferred final wave function. To derive the required interferences between quantum paths, usually a sequence…
Pfalzklinikum – service provider for mental health and resilience “Loreanto/Shutterstock.com” Pfalzklinikum is a service provider for mental health in the Rhineland-Palatinate in Southwest Germany with over 2,000 employees in 14 locations. Its work encompasses approximately 1.4 million people in the Palatinate, focusing on community-based, child and adolescent, general psychiatry and neurology services. As mental health…
BioSusAmin project – The design and development of efficient biocatalytic cascades and biosynthetic pathways for the sustainable production of amines Chiral amines are the most widely used intermediates for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), fine chemicals and agrochemicals. For instance, about 40% of the optically active drugs sold on the market contain α-chiral…
Insect-plant relationships: insights into biodiversity and new applications (FlyHigh) Phytophagous and saprophagous hoverflies, blowflies and soldier flies occur worldwide and are diverse and important ecological groups in both natural ecosystems and agricultural environments, as pollinators of plants and as decomposers of organic waste. The phytophagous fly maggots (larvae) develop in living plants while saprophagous maggots…
Active Polymers for Renewable Functional Actuators Funded by the ERC the APRA project will bridge from the material concept to breakthrough technology: tuning the material design for robust nematic LCE vitrimers, imparting photo-actuation capacity with a controlled wavelength – and finally utilising them in practical-engineering actuator applications where the reversible large-stroke mechanical action is stimulated…
The NanoChemBioVision project is being co-ordinated at The University of Southampton with an ERC grant lasting until 2020. It has been developing a generic and simple optic ultra-high resolution technology based on a super-oscillatory modulation of light coupled with wavelength mixing to provide optical information at <100 nm levels. This will be used for new…
Funded through Horizon 2020, co-ordinated by the Marine Institute in Galway Ireland and now in its 4th year, the AORAC-SA project (Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Coordination and Support Action) was set up in order to provide scientific, logistical and technical support to the European Commission in developing and implementing trans-Atlantic marine research cooperation between the…