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Join us for the Summer School on environment, brain and mental health
Are you a student or early career researcher interested in gaining a greater understanding on how environmental challenges affect mental health? Then join us for the Summer School on environment,...
Outcomes of the environMENTAL Consensus Conference
The environMENTAL project is thrilled to share the key outcomes from the recently concluded environMENTAL Consensus Conference (CC). This milestone event has provided invaluable insights and...
Replace, Reduce, Refine!
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) supports the implementation of the 3Rs principle - replace, reduce and refine - for the ethical use of animals in medicine testing across the European Union...
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
Climate change, although increasingly evident, often feels abstract and distant to Western populations. Yet, rising temperatures, extreme weather, and sea level rises are already causing...
WP3 Update on StreetMind Blog
We are happy to announce that the StreetMind Blog and our review article was accepted in Current Opinion in Psychiatry and is published now. Click here to find out more about the loop between...
Join us for the Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Summit, 1st – 2nd July in Berlin
Join us for a two-day free event examining the role played by artificial intelligence and digital tools in understanding and supporting mental health. Hosted by the environMENTAL Consortium, German...
Press Release: Invitation to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mental Health Summit, 1st and 2nd July 2024
The environMENTAL project, a pioneering initiative led by esteemed scientists from Charité Berlin and founded by the European Union, is hosting a two-day event on 1st and 2nd July 2024, exploring...
WP5 Newsletter: Investigating the Impact of Environmental Factors on Mental Health Using Omics
Unveiling the Link Between DNA Methylation and Mental Health Xinyang, a third-year PhD student at King’s College London, is exploring how DNA methylation impacts cortical structures. Her research...
First amendment accepted by the EU! The environMENTAL consortium welcomes new partners!
The University of Nottingham (UoN), concentris, NAKO e.V. and Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) will support the environMENTAL consortium with achieving their goals.Prof. Bernd Stahl and...
WP12: we are FAIR!
The Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) Digital Health Center leads work package (WP) 12 and is responsible for implementing FAIR principles1 to ensure the integrity of the data life cycle. The team...
Poster Awards at environMENTAL General Assembly Meeting
Congratulations to Emin Serin, Paul Renner and Antoine Bernas for winning the Poster Awards at this year’s environMENTAL General Assembly Meeting! Emin’s poster presents a novel neural network...
3rd General Assembly meeting in Neuhardenberg
This week we wrapped up our 2.5-days General Assembly meeting filled with partner updates & in-depth discussions on key sub-projects, including computer brain & mental health, -omics, and...
WP10: SAVE THE DATE for the first Summit of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health!
We are excited to announce that environMENTAL will be hosting the first Summit of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health. This event, organized by the environMENTAL consortium in collaboration...
Watch the environMENTAL Consensus Conference Video Now!
We are thrilled to announce the release of the highly anticipated video from the environMENTAL Consensus Conference! This thrilling event brought together a diverse panel of experts to discuss...
WP5: Milestone reached in the collaborative characterization of omics data
We are thrilled to share a significant update for our work package (WP5), which is dedicated to omics characterization in deeply phenotyped longitudinal cohorts. Our teams led by Prof. Sylvane...
WP4: Global collaboration: environMENTAL x Yale’s ABCD Study and EC IMAGEN
Understanding the interplay between our environment, the brain, and human behaviors is challenging. Antoine Bernas and the team at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour are...
WP2: 1st environMENTAL x iMap Workshop
🌍 Exciting news from the world of environmental research! 🌿 The partnership between environMENTAL and the Chinese "iMapWorld" team has just kicked off after a successful workshop. Led by Prof. Peng...
WP3: Become Part of our Community and become a Citizen Scientist with Streetmind
In the Sailing City Kiel, work package 3 is looking forward to 2024 and the growing community on our citizen-science platform StreetMind (https://www.streetmind.eu/). Become a citizen scientist!...
WP1: Cold Snap, Hot Research: Oslo Team Probes Gene-Environment Links to Mental Health
This week, Oslo hit a record -31.3°C. Rikka Kjelkenes and the Work Package 1 team braved the freeze for their first 2024 meeting, planning to explore gene-environment interactions and their impact...
The Steering Committee of environMENTAL had an productive and fruitful meeting from 5th – 7th September in Oberlech, Austria.
The environMENTAL STC-Members gathered to share their first results and determined the next steps for the project. Key topics were e.g. the inclusion of further cohorts, the environMENTAL profiles...
