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REDI4Heat is an EU funded project aimed at decarbonising heating and cooling, which account for a large proportion of energy consumption in European households. It aims to assist member states and local authorities in complying with the Renewables Energy Directive by identifying shortcomings in current strategies and providing recommendations for improvement. The goal is to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy solutions to meet decarbonisation targets in Europe and this work will be carried out by representatives of national energy agencies, renewable heating and cooling trade associations, a network of local authorities and energy consultants.

For twenty years, the Global Development Awards Competition has celebrated excellence in policy-oriented research and innovation in social development. Funded by the Government of Japan, the competition has awarded US$4 million in grants. The Global Development Awards Platform is where you can find past winners of the competition. The database can be filtered by various criteria and provides a way to connect with like-minded researchers and practitioners (NGOs) at the forefront of improving and implementing global development policies.

This research project explores what makes work meaningful for paid care workers in home care, day care centres and residential care, and it shows how organisational representatives, clients’ families, and their own significant others can make some sources of meaningfulness invisible.

This video aims to support organisations and businesses across all sectors, including higher education, in designing and implementing diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) training. It incorporates research relating to microaggressions and bystander awareness to provide guidance around improving relations and allyship between co-workers. The video features tips for trainers and leaders regarding creating, executing, and evaluating DEI training.

The United States has set an ambitious goal of ending the U.S. HIV epidemic by 2030. While the U.S. Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative draws on a powerful toolbox of effective HIV prevention and treatment options that are available today, their reach continues to be unacceptably limited among groups experiencing the greatest HIV inequities. For communities left behind, new HIV infections are: inadequately decreasing, stagnating at elevated levels, in some cases increasing, or too often invisible. Without accelerated progress, the 2030 goal will soon be out of reach. The video outlines actions needed in four priority areas to get the country back on track to meet the EHE initiative’s 2030 goal.

Bore Place is an innovative organic dairy farm committed to improving the environment. It has been working to regenerate the complexity and quantity of living organisms in soils. Here they show how this can improve farm resilience, enhance local wildlife diversity and reduce their carbon footprint.

Thoughts about suicide as an option in human life are not uncommon. Acting on suicidal thoughts is a different matter. Dr. Michel and Dr. Valach have developed a new approach to understanding the psychology of the suicidal person. Read more in the new book published by Columbia University Press.

Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm that can cause blood clots and eventually strokes. Although blood thinners are effective in preventing strokes, they often have limitations and side effects, such as bleeding. By removing a small pouch on the heart called the left atrial appendage, surgeons around the world have managed to reduce the chances of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation that had heart surgery for a different reason.

Removal or occlusion of the left atrial appendage during cardiac surgery has been hypothesized to prevent thromboembolic events in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). To confirm this hypothesis, a team of researchers around the world conducted a multicentre, randomized trial involving 4811 participants with atrial fibrillation who were scheduled to undergo cardiac surgery for other reasons.