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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…
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…
The MycoSynVac project is a 5 year research programme funded through Horizon 2020 and co-ordinated at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Spain. Now entering its 4th year it has been looking at Mycoplasmas and the infections caused by them in the livestock industry. Their inherent resistance to common antibiotics, due to the lack…
With just under 2 years left of a 5 year project, META-STRESS, which is co-ordinated at the University of Helsinki, has been studying the large metapopulation of the Glanville fritillary Butterfly in order to test how organisms cope with environmental stress and the eco-evolutionary consequences. The potential results of the project could prove ground-breaking in…
The HEARTOFSTROKE project, funded under H2020 and co-ordinated at UMC Utrecht, has an aim to understand the cause of stroke in every single patient. Looking at the “3Ps” (Pipes, Perfusion, Parenchyma). New research fields have been created based on innovative non-invasive arterial spin labelling perfusion MRI, perfusion reserve, perfusion territory and vessel wall MRI methods.…
The H2020 project Feed-a-Gene has been researching and developing new alternative feed resources and feed technologies for the past 3 years to better adapt different components of monogastric livestock production systems. Co-ordinated at INRA and with funding lasting until 2020 it will develop, amongst other things, biological models of livestock functioning to better understand and…
Now just past the half way point of the research the RETHRIM project, funded through H2020, has been further developing an academic infrastructure for the harmonized production of MSC (Mesenchymal stromal cells). The aim of the project was to conduct the first Europe-wide placebo controlled randomised phase III trial using MSC regenerative therapy for the…
Having completed nearly 3 years research and its final year on the horizon the H2020 project EUCLID has been looking at more sustainable pest management methods in order to reduce the negative effects of pesticides on human health and the environment. Its main goal is developing sustainable production approaches used in European and Chinese agriculture…
The UB-RASDisease project is being carried out at The Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Having been awarded an ERC consolidator grant, lasting approximately 5 years, it will look to find ways to defeat RAS-driven disease. By creating genetically modified mouse models and CRISPR-engineered human cell models they can assess the functional impact of the alterations…
The University of Antwerp has been awarded a 5 year ERC consolidator grant to further look into TAAD (Thoracic aortic aneurysm dissection). The GENOMIA project will use next generation sequencing technologies to establish additional genetic TAAD causes and observe that in many syndromic and non-syndromic families there is both significant non-penetrance and inter- and intra-familial…
With web applications being constantly under attack from malicious programs the BROWSEC project, co-ordinated at The Technical University of Vienna with an ERC consolidator grant, aims to develop a holistic approach to client-side web security. It intends to prevent dangerous information flows by treating the internet browser as a “Blackbox” and monitoring and intercepting inputs…
The PHOENEEX project will address the ever increasing demand for compact energy systems for portable devices. Looking at mobile energy sources for such things as mobile phones, the PHOENEEX project will have a hypothesis that the combination of novel precursor materials, new methods for 3D polymer microfabrication and optimised pyrolysis processes will allow for fabrication…
The INTERACTION project, co-ordinated from The University of Copenhagen, will produce a conceptual model for the out-of-equilibrium system of interacting clouds. Using cutting-edge large-eddy simulations it will determine the interactions in the cloud system and will go beyond the traditional forcing-and-feedback descriptions which portray severe shortcomings. With a 5 year ERC consolidator grant it will…
The MAGMA project will be conducted at The University of Mainz in Germany with an ERC consolidator grant over the next 5 years. The project will develop and employ a new generation of 3D computer models to simulate magma flow, with a full magmatic system in arcs simulated whilst taking realistic rock rheologies and evolving…