The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has announced the establishment of two new centres for health research: the German Centre for Mental Health and the German Centre for Child and Adolescent Health. After a multi-stage application process and based on the recommendations of two international expert panels, the BMBF selected the locations for each centre.
Following the example of the existing DZGs, the new centres consist of universities, university hospitals and non-university research institutions that cooperate closely with each other on a regional basis. The following locations form the new DZGs:
German Centre for Mental Health
- Berlin, coordination: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Bochum, coordination: Ruhr University Bochum
- Jena, coordination: University Hospital Jena
- Mannheim, coordination: Central Institute of Mental Health
- Munich, coordination: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- Tübingen, coordination: University of Tübingen
German Centre for Child and Adolescent Health
- Berlin, coordination: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Göttingen, coordination: Georg-August University Göttingen
- Greifswald, coordination: University Medical Center Greifswald
- Hamburg, coordination: University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Leipzig, coordination: University of Leipzig
- Munich, coordination: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- Ulm, coordination: University of Ulm
Concept development each funded with € 500,000
The new German Centres for Mental Health and for Child and Adolescent Health complement the existing German Centres for Health Research. Their goal is to create optimal research conditions in order to better combat widespread diseases and to bring research results into practice more quickly. To this end, the DZGs link basic research with clinical research as well as with prevention and health care research. The centres are jointly funded by the BMBF and the federal Laender where the sites are located.
The newly selected sites will now develop an overall concept for the respective new centre in a six-month concept development phase. This will include a joint strategy for future research and cooperation as well as concrete content-related, programmatic and structural goals for the development of the respective centre. The concepts should be geared towards improving diagnostics, treatment and prevention in mental illnesses and in child and adolescent health. The concepts will then be reviewed again by an international panel of experts. The BMBF funds the concept development with € 500,000 per centre.
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