For more than 100 years, the mining industry in the EU has been disposing its mineral residues. If poorly managed, these residues pose a significant threat to the environment, but also contain valuable metals and recoverable minerals, e.g. gold, silver, cobalt, barite.
The “Training Compass Chemistry: Designing Sustainable Transitions” is a project of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen that aims to open up the university and increase permeability between university and vocational training. It offers students who are considering dropping out of university the opportunity to transition smoothly and without loss of time to vocational training, and encourages trainees to pursue further studies in order to exploit the full potential of all possible workers.
Digitization is widely recognized as one of the key factors to improve the quality of life in our modern society. Based on the intelligent combination of data from both the physical world and cyberspace, a wide variety of new services can be implemented.
About 15 million people in Germany suffer from hearing disorders. Among the elderly, hearing loss is the most frequently impaired sensory perception. But even children and newborns can suffer from hearing loss, such as inner ear deafness.
About four million people in Germany suffer from cardiac insufficiency. One characteristic of the disease is the stiffening of the heart muscle because connective tissue cells are deposited, the so-called fibrosis.
Diseases that affect fewer than one in 2,000 people are considered rare. They are often chronic, have severe courses and carry the risk of permanent organ damage and deterioration for patients. More than 7,000 rare diseases are currently known to medicine.