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Reducing the impact of major environmental challenges on mental health
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Interested to know about environMENTAL Work Package 12?

WP12 are responsible for the data management of the project. WP12 ensure all research data and software generated within the project are managed according to the FAIR principles:

🔹Findable
🔹Accessible
🔹Interoperable
🔹Reusable

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Introducing environMENTAL Work Package 12 Work Package Lead: Sven Twardziok Charite University Medicine Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) environMENTAL is a project focused on managing, utilizing and enriching data effectively. Work Package 12 (WP12) is specifically responsible for the data management aspect of this project, ensuring that all research data and software generated within the project are managed according to the FAIR principles, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. This involves setting up a data management plan, providing a standardized and secure data infrastructure, managing the framework to utilize geospatial data, and developing a central meta-database to support the findability and accessibility of all data. The data infrastructure is built upon the cloud infrastructure at the Digital Health Center of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité. WP12's efforts ensure that data is safely stored, accessible to the consortium and the scientific community, and compliant with legal frameworks and GDPR.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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This month the environMENTAL project held a hybrid Summer School on environmental and computational neuroscience, hosted by Aix-Marseille University.

Over 19,000 online and 30 in-person participants took part over the two days.

Thank you to all of our speakers and participants for taking part!
Prof. Viktor Jirsa presenting The Virtual Brain Modelling at the environMENTAL Summer School, October 2025.
October 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Last week, the environMENTAL Consortium held a Steering Committee Meeting in Marseille, hosted by consortium partner, INS - Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes at Aix-Marseille University.

Thanks to all who attended for making the meeting so productive!

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Picture of the environMENTAL Consortium at the Steering Committee Meeting in Marseille, France.
October 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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📢 Last week environMENTAL Consortium member Marcel Jentsch presented emerging research from the environMENTAL Project.

📕 Marcel’s poster was titled, ‘CLUES: A Comprehensive Workflow for Integrating Geospatial Data in Biomedical Research’.

ℹ️ Stay tuned for more information about CLUES.

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Environmental project at the ISMB / ECCB Conference Marcel Jentsch presented his poster at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology / European Conference on Computational Biology Conference, Liverpool, July 2025. Marcel’s poster is titled: ‘CLUES: A Comprehensive Workflow for Integrating Geospatial Data in Biomedical Research’. Stay tuned for more about CLUES.
July 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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📢 Join us for a Summer School on environmental and computational neuroscience

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 8th – 9th October 2025
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Aix-Marseille Université
𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱: Online participation possible
𝗙𝗲𝗲: 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 event

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: shorturl.at/72RAd

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SUMMER SCHOOL Theme: environmental and computational neuroscience Location: Aix-Marseille University and online participation Dates: 8th and 9th October 2025
July 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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📢 Join us for the upcoming Brain Health Seminar: Intersectional Aspects of Climate Change with Prof. Andreas Heinz

📅 12 August 2025

⏰ 10 AM CEST / 4 PM CST

✍ 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡: intranet.concentris.de/event/9f4d58...

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📢 Join us for the upcoming Brain Health Seminar: Intersectional Aspects of Climate Change with Prof. Andreas Heinz 📅 12 August 2025 ⏰ 10 AM CEST / 4 PM CST
July 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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📢 Join us for the upcoming Brain Health Seminar: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 with Prof. Surjo Soekadar 🧠

📅 24 June 2025
⏰ 10 AM CEST / 4 PM CST

🔗 More info & link to registration: www.environmental-project.org/events/onlin...
June 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Behind every successful research consortium is an expert project management team.

Keen to find out about environMENTAL Work Package 11?

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Introducing environMENTAL Work Package 11 Work Package Title: Project Coordination and Management Lead: Gunter Schumann, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin A dedicated team spanning across Charité Berlin and concentris research management GmbH ensures the overall management and coordination of the environMENTAL project. WP11 promotes collaboration across 24 global partners. This includes managing grant reports and deliverables, financial administration, supporting ethics processes, and planning international meetings and events. WP11 aligns project tasks and resources so that goals and milestones are achieved. In short, WP11 ensures that the cogs of the project keep turning.
May 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Interested to know more about environMENTAL Work Package 10?

WP10 aims to create scientific and societal impact from the project’s results. This includes engaging with stakeholder groups, providing training, and coordinating the project’s communication, dissemination and engagement activities.
Introducing environMENTAL Work Package 10 Title: Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation WP Lead: Esther Hitchen from the Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin Work Package 10 aims to create scientific and societal impact from the project’s results. We do this through: 1. Planning and coordinating the project’s dissemination, communication, and engagement activities 2. Engaging with diverse international stakeholder groups and involving them in the development of the project 3. Providing training, such as Summer Schools and Seminar Series 4. Planning and promoting the use of results in ways that can benefit society
May 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Interested to know more about environMENTAL Work Package 9?

WP9 bridges the gap between science and social responsibility, ensuring that our work supports sustainable, meaningful change in mental health research.

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Introducing environMENTAL Work Package Title: Responsible Research and Innovation Lead: Bernd Stahl from the University of Nottingham WP9 ensure the environMENTAL project’s research and innovations are ethical, inclusive, and aligned with societal values. WP9 has three key objectives: Stakeholder Engagement: We promote open dialogue between researchers and key stakeholders. Co-Design and Reflection: We integrate stakeholder perspectives into every step of the research process. Ethics and Compliance: We ensure that all project activities meet European and local legal requirements while addressing societal expectations. WP9 bridges the gap between cutting-edge science and social responsibility, ensuring that our work supports sustainable, meaningful change in mental health research.
April 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Interested to know more about environMENTAL Work Package 8?

Mel Slater and his team at the University of Barcelona are developing VR based intervention programmes to alleviate mental health problems associated with environmental change.

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Introducing environMENTAL Work Package 8 Title: Digital Intervention Lead: Mel Slater from the University of Barcelona Photo depicts photo of WP8 Team WP8 has three main goals: 🌎 Use virtual reality (VR) to create scenarios where people can directly experience the impact of various levels of environmental change within a small virtual town. This will be used to carry out experimental studies to understand different factors that may cause distress. 🌍 Develop VR based intervention programmes to alleviate mental health problems associated with environmental change, including self-therapy. 🌍 Make our solutions widely distributed, for example, by using mobile phone apps, and low-cost VR approaches. Photo depicts a student using a VR headset at the environMENTAL Summer School in September 2024.
April 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Interested to know more about environMENTAL Work Package 7? WP7 develops a multidisciplinary approach to drug discovery and disease modeling.

The team at Ksilink and ISTA are paving the way for innovative treatments that will improve the lives of individuals affected by neuropsychiatric disorders.
environMENTAL Introducing Work Package 7 Title: Mechanistic investigations and drug discovery Lead: Karen Schmitt, Ksilink What are the aims of WP7? WP7 develops a multidisciplinary approach to drug discovery and disease modeling. WP7 aims to develop advanced human derived-cellular models that reflect key molecular mechanisms underlying cognition, behavior, and neurological diseases. To do this we generate cellular models including brain organoids – a miniaturized and simplified version of the brain. We will assess and validate the impacts of stressing specific pathways in these in-vitro models. This paves the way for innovative treatments and improving the lives of individuals affected by neuropsychiatric disorders.
April 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Interested to know what environMENTAL Work Package 6 does?

WP6 is a multi-disciplinary team that investigates the impact of environmental factors on various mental health conditions.

Click on the following link for more information: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Introducing environMENTAL Work Package 6 Work Package Lead: Tobias Banaschewski from the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim WP6 investigates the impact of environmental factors on various mental health conditions capitalizing on data from different cohorts, such as the general population and clinical cohorts. We aim to apply statistical and machine learning methods to the clinical cohorts to examine how environmental factors may associate with psychopathological symptoms among individuals. Additionally, we seek to identify risk factors that influence the development and maintenance of these symptoms. We are a team of researchers with diverse backgrounds, including medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.
April 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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environMENTAL Consortium member Mel Slater gave an excellent Masterclass on Virtual Reality Interventions at this year’s General Assembly Meeting.

Click the following link to discover more about the work of Mel and his team: www.environmental-project.org/seminar-seri...

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Mel Slater from the University of Barcelona delivering his masterclass on virtual reality interventions.
March 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The environMENTAL Consortium had a successful General Assembly Meeting this week in Estoi, Portugal!

We held productive research discussions and two members of our Expert by Experience Board joined the meeting.

It’s going to be an exciting couple of years so stay tuned!

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The environMENTAL Consortium in the hotel gardens of Pousada Palacio Estoi, Portugal.
March 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Interested to know about environMENTAL Work Package 5?

WP5 explores how genetic and environmental factors interact to shape mental health.

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Introducing environMENTAL Work Package 5 Omics characterisation in deeply phenotyped longitudinal cohorts Lead: Sylvane Desrivières Kings College London WP5 explores how genetic and environmental factors interact to shape mental health. Our research integrates deep phenotyping with multi-omics approaches to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying mental illness. By integrating large-scale genomics from deeply phenotyped cohorts, we aim to investigate how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures, such as urban living, influence mental health risk and resilience. Powerful computational approaches will enable us to identify causal genes and molecular pathways involved. We strive to identify genetic and environmental signatures and develop refined biomarkers and predictive tools for early intervention.
March 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Interested to know what environMENTAL Work Package 4 does?

WP4 develops advanced data analysis methods to support the scientific objectives of the project.

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Introducing environMENTAL Work Package 4 Title: Data analysis and biomarker identification Lead: André Marquant Institution: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands WP4 develops advanced data analysis methods to support the scientific objectives of the project. WP4 aims to: • develop deep-learning based tools to infer population level genetic and environmental determinants of risk and resilience for mental disorders • estimate integrated, multi-modal stratification biomarkers to guide interventions, clinical validation, molecular profiling and predict current and future individual mental health • develop ‘virtual brain’ simulation models for validating our analytic workflows, for testing interventions and better understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying mental disorders using synthetic data.
March 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Interested to know about environMENTAL Work Package 3?

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📱 Scan the QR codes to download the StreetMind App!

🔗 Find more about StreetMind at: www.streetmind.eu

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Introducing environMENTAL WP3 WP3 Title: Development and implementation of digital health assessments Lead: Frauke Nees WP3 develops and implements a digital health app for data enrichment in large population and clinical cohorts. Through the digital platform StreetMind, we are gathering data on mental health, socioeconomics, stress, social support, life events, environmental impacts, cognition, and spatial movement to identify environment-related psycho-social-behavioral interactions and mitigate mental health risks. StreetMind follows a citizen science approach to encourage public engagement and inform public policies.
February 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Interested to know what environMENTAL Work Package 2 does?

Click on the images to read a summary of WP2 aims and objectives.

WP2 title: Development of a multimodal environmental assessment tool

WP2 Leads: Elli Polemiti and Gunter Schumann

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Introducing Work Package 2 WP2 Title: Development of a multimodal environmental assessment tool WP2 Lead: Elli Polemiti and Gunter Schumann WP2 brings together geographers, climatologists, data scientists, and epidemiologists to integrate environmental data into cohort and neuroimaging studies. It collects global datasets on climate, extreme weather, air pollution, urban and natural spaces, and regional socioeconomic status, linking them to participants’ locations. A key outcome is environMAP, a Geospatial Data Hub for Environmental Research, providing researchers with ready-to-use environmental products. The platform includes a processing service for spatial data visualisation and enables seamless linkage of participants’ locations to environmental data, while ensuring privacy protection. WP2 enables research on environmental influences on mental and physical health across diverse geographic and demographic contexts.
February 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Introducing Work Package 1 of the environMENTAL Project!

Title: Gene environment data infrastructure and discovery

Lead: Ole A. Andreasson from @uio.no

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Introducing Work Package 1: Gene environment data infrastructure and discovery. What are the aims of WP1? WP1 aims to build a data infrastructure to study the connection between environment, genes, and mental health. It will gather and organize large collections of data on people's health, environment, and genetic information. Researchers will use this data to discover how factors like COVID-19 or pollution might affect mental well-being. The goal is to find patterns and predict who is most at risk for mental health issues based on their genes and environment. The project follows ethical and privacy guidelines to protect participants' information. The tools and data created will be shared to help other scientists study and address these important issues.
February 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The #EU-funded environMENTAL Project aims to reduce the impact of major environmental challenges on mental health. Made up of 24 partners, we are excited to join BlueSky and share our journey with you! Click here to see our recent research activities: mailchi.mp/b3e80b892761...

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Welcome to environMENTAL! The environmental project investigates how some of the greatest environmental challenges affect mental health.
January 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM