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General Assembly Meeting in Faro, Portugal
From 17-19 March 2025, the environMENTAL project brought together 42 participants for a productive General Assembly meeting in Faro, Portugal! Despite the bad weather, we had an amazing time full...
Join the Expert by Experience (EbE) Board of the environMENTAL Project!
Are you passionate about mental health? Have you or someone close to you experienced mental health challenges, particularly those influenced by environmental stressors like climate change,...
Summer School on environment, brain and mental health
🌍 Thanks to all who participanted in the environMENTAL Summer School on Environment, Brain and Mental Health! 🧠We had an insightful three days, ranging from virtual reality in mental health, to...
PRESS RELEASE – Springer Nature Group and EU-funded environMENTAL project launch and inform about the new “Earth, Brain, Health Commission”
We are delighted to share our latest press release, announcing the launch of the new "Earth, Brain, Health Commission" by the Springer Nature Group (Nature Mental Health) in collaboration with the...
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...
