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The promotion of resilience as a communication challenge

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 Project By Dr Ivan Minev

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.…

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Ward Equivalent Treatment – Pfalzklinikum

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 PROJECT by Dr. Eleonora Viezzer

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 by Dr. Marcus Scheele

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 by Dr. Nahid Talebi

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

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…

FLYHIGH Project by Aino Juslén

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…

APRA PROJECT BY EUGENE M. TERENTJEV

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…