SELIS R&D Project Paves the Way for European Logistics Collaboration SELIS (the Shared European Logistics Intelligent Information Space) is a €17 million flagship European Commission-funded research project and part of the EC’s €77 billion Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The SELIS project will be brought to a successful close this month after three years…
Because they know how it is: Peer counselling at the eye level in the Palatinate region The Federal Participation Act of 23rd December 2016 changed on 1st January 2017 con-cerning the performance right of the social code IX and described with its changes, a fundamental paradigm shift in the right to rehabilitation and participation of…
Labs Explorer and Science Explainers now working in association with The EDMA The EDMA are delighted and extremely excited to announce that we are now working in association with both Labs Explorer (@LabsExplorer) and their service Science Explainers (@SciExplainers). In addition to being able to bring many more benefits to our clients across multiple cutting-edge…
Securing Internet Routing from the Ground Up The Internet needs fixing The Internet plays a crucial role in our daily lives, the global economy, national security, and beyond. Yet, the core components of the Internet’s communication infrastructure, which are tasked with routing data traffic, sharing the scarce network resources between users, and providing reliability in…
Do Legislatures Enhance Democracy in Africa? Introduction Parliaments are “central institutions of democracy” that “embody the will of the people in government, and carry all their expectations that democracy will be truly responsive to their needs” (Beetham 2006: 1). Taking this definition as a starting point, a paradox emerges: if parliaments are democratic institutions,…
On October 15, 2018 the first workshop for the “Do Legislatures enhance democracy in Africa?” project took place in Lome, Togo. Eminent researchers from Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Gabon, Germany, Tanzania, Togo and Zimbabwe, met in the Togolese capital to mark the ground for the research project “Do legislatures enhance democracy in Africa?”. This project led…
People succeeding in acting adaptively and proactively even in crisis situations, under extreme stress or unfavorable conditions have considerably higher chances to sustainably stay healthy. To successfully handle every-day stressors, chronic stress such as diseases but also critical and traumatizing events in life and to be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions despite a…
IntegraBrain – Integrated Implant Technology for Multi-modal Brain Interfaces Bioelectronic medicine may soon enable restoration of body functions lost in injury or disease. The clinician will implant a miniature laboratory to deliver and coordinate a treatment program directly at the affected tissue. The technology to bring this vision to the clinic is not yet available.…
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…