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EAAD Project Office
Universität Leipzig
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie
Semmelweisstr. 10
D - 04103 Leipzig
Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hegerl (Curriculum vitae available here)
Phone +49.341.9724-530
Fax +49.341.9724-539
ulrich.hegerl@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Katrin Gottlebe
Phone +49.341.9724-583
Fax +49.341.9724-589
katrin.gottlebe@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Ongoing projects
German Research Network on Depression and Suicidality
The German Research Network on Depression and Suicidality is one of currently 17 Research Networks in Medicine funded by the German Ministry for Research and Education. In order to address the multiple deficits with regard to diagnosis, treatment and research in the field of depressive disorders, the Research Network connects 15 German research centres and university hospitals as well as the most important institutions in the German health care system (e.g. health insurance funds and associations of consultant practitioners).
In co-operation with those network partners six main projects are realized. Each project consists of several subprojects. Research activities undertaken range from implementation and evaluation of suicide preventive measures over investigation of optimized treatment possibilities of minor and subthreshold depression in primary care settings to molecular genetic aspects of depressive disorders. The German government supported the Network with more than 13 million Euros over the first five years from 1999 to 2004. The last period of funding lasts from 2005 probably until 2008. The Network will be supported within this time by 500.000 Euros every year.
For further information, please refer to http://www.kompetenznetz-depression.de/
German Alliance against Depression
The “German Alliance against Depression” (“Deutsches Buendnis gegen Depression e.V.“) emerged in the framework of the “German Research Network on Depression and Suicidality“, a large scaled nation-wide research network initiated and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. During 2001/ 2002 an intervention programme on four intervention levels has been conducted in the city of Nuremberg, Germany („Nuremberg Alliance Against Depression“), to improve the care for individuals suffering from depressive disorders.
The project led to a decrease in overall suicidality (suicides and suicide attempts) of more than 20 percent. Further German regions showed their interest in conducting comparable action programmes. In 2003, the “German Alliance against Depression“ was founded as a non-profit association creating the preconditions for a national extension of the activities. Meanwhile nearly 50 regions in Germany initiated similar projects under the common roof of the „Alliance Against Depression“.
For further information, please refer to http://www.buendnis-depression.de/
The project office is supported by GABO:mi.
Last update: 28.02.2011