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BUW.
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FOrschungsmagazin der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal
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Sommersemester 2014
5
A
mong gratifying recent developments on the
political and organizational side of research at
the University of Wuppertal is the volume of external
funding acquired by the university in the past finan-
cial year. At some € 33 m this establishes a new record in
the history of our still young institution. And it brings
with it a growing international visibility, evident above
all in three major EU networks with differing research
focuses coordinated from Wuppertal: “nanoCOPS”,
which is concerned with the improvement of electro-
nic components, “OSNIRO” concerned with questions
of organic electronics, and “STRIKE” with innovative
methods of financial mathematics. Attracting a total
of some € 11 m in EU funding, these projects involve re-
search teams from a number of universities in various
European countries.
Health is an important personal and social value – all
the more so for a society in the grip of rapid demographic
change. Understood in the sense of the World Health
Organization as “a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely the absence of dis-
ease or infirmity”, health is a complex phenomenon.
UW’s strategic interdisciplinary focus on health, preven-
tion and movement is represented in this issue with ar-
ticles on health, health management and public health
from the Departments of Health Psychology, Sports
Science and Medicine, Health and Movement Studies,
Work and Organizational Psychology, Safety Engineer-
ing, and Health Systems Economics.
Under the overall heading of Health and Movement,
BUW.OUTPUT 11 presents a selection of research proj-
ects devoted to current issues of our society. Is it true,
for instance, that the children of our digital age often
move their overweight bodies only virtually? Is there a
connection between the social background, cognitive
development and health of children? Two projects seek
to establish not only empirically reliable answers to
these questions, but also models for the alleviation of
the conditions they describe. A further article outlines
ways of stimulating people – even those with rare dis-
eases – to undertake physical movement in an effective
and economically acceptable way. Other articles focus
on the improvement of medication provision for mul-
tiply sick patients through inter-professional coopera-
tion; the optimization of training for young people with
attention deficit disorder; and how sports injuries to the
upper ankle can at least be partially avoided. A brief
spectrum of topical research items completes the picture
with insights into a wide range of exciting developments
taking place at the University of Wuppertal.
Enjoy your reading!
PS: For the English version visit
www.buw-output.de
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