The Centre for Urban Epidemiology (CUE) was successful in the two-stage selection procedure for the Fritz und Hildegard Berg Stiftung's call "City of the Future – Healthy, sustainable metropolises: New Ways to improve the Dialogue between Science and Civil Society". The funds will be used to support the establishment of a new institute at the Medical Faculty in Essen, which will specifically address the inter- and transdisciplinary tasks for the innovative field of Urban Public Health.

CUE participates as a cooperation partner in the project "AI Lab for Distributed and Embedded Systems" (KI-LiveS). Together with several chairs of the University of Duisburg-Essen and the TU Dortmund University the topic "AI" shall be advanced in Germany.

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In October 2018, the project "AcouStic QuAlity and HeaLth in Urban EnVironmEnts", funded by the MERCUR Foundation, was launched. The project involves scientific teams from the Centre for Urban Epidemiology of the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and the Faculty of Spatial Planning of the TU Dortmund (TU DO).

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The CLEVER Cities project uses nature-based solutions to address urban challenges and promote social inclusion in cities across Europe, South America and China.

Project partners work together with local governments, civil society, universities and businesses in the three frontrunner cities - Hamburg, London and Milan in order to improve public health, social cohesion, citizen security and increase economic opportunities in those areas. More info (http://clevercities.eu/)

The Centre for Urban Epidemiology offers Bachelor’s and Master’s theses in the context of various research projects. We provide individual supervision and support on various issues such as methodological questions, literature research as well as helping to acquire specialist literature. Interested students please contact: Prof. Dr. Susanne Moebus, susanne.moebus@uk-essen.de