Smartphones are ubiquitous in all age groups and socioeconomic levels and digitalization of various life domains is in full progress. While there are several areas where skepticism is justified, the personal health domain still holds high promises, particularly when applied in specific settings. The proposed mHealth app SmartEater provides intelligent mobile logging of stress, and eating behavior as a basis for intervention and follow-up care in clinics treating eating disorders and obesity. Current apps require frequent and cumbersome entries, resulting in low user adherence and poor data quality. Evidence for their usefulness is often missing. Further, therapeutic content is not personalized. In SmartEater, users repeatedly enter data on experienced craving for foods and stress. SmartEater then ‘learns’ from the user through sophisticated machine learning algorithms: data from smartphone usage patterns (e.g. screen-on time, calls, messages, internet traffic) and sensor data (e.g. movement, background noise) are combined to substitute for manual user input, thereby progressively reducing user burden. Temporal pattern analysis of individual time-series allows prediction of stress and craving bouts into the near future. Such predictions allows the app to respond to upcoming eating 'crises’ e.g. overeating/binge eating and launch situation-appropriate tips that have been developed individually for the user during in-patient treatment. SmartEater will be routed in psychological models of eating behavior and rigorously tested in the described population to evaluate efficacy. Due to the sensitive nature of such data, SmartEater enforces strict privacy protection. Targeted markets include health insurances which profit from improved patient health and successful transfer into daily life after professional treatment as well as clinics with an eating/weight disorder focus in German speaking coutries.

The aim of this project is to strengthen the cooperation of higher education institutions (universities and universities of applied sciences) in the field of wood engineering and management and jointly develop and implement distance learning modules. The develpment process in three steps guarantees a high standard of the collaboratively designed teaching units. After each step a thorough evaluation process takes place in order to incorporate students' and teachers' feedback into the new tranche of online teaching material to be created. At the end of the project 40 ECTS are available online, out of which students can choose 30 ECTS and do a virtual Erasmus+ mobility semester with full ECTS recognition at the home university. This means that for the first time ever, a European student of wood engineering or wood management can study a full exchange semester online, without having to leave the home university. Nevertheless, benefits and learning outcomes should be as close as possible to the ones from a real exchange semester that involves mobility. The virtual exchange semester will contribute to opening the possibility of studying in an international context, with courses in a foreign language (English) and lecturers as well as students from other cultural and institutional backgrounds to a higher percentage of students than the number of students who can afford to do an Erasmus+ exchange programme with physical mobility. Regardless of financial, social or physical barriers, students can do an exchange semester at the Virtual Wood University. The modules offered will show a high degree of collaboration and cooperation and put special emphasis on aspects that help to develop a European mindset, both with regard to the wood business and European citizenship. The exchange semester offered on the Virtual Wood University Platform shall provide students with a high degree of experience in cross-country cooperation and intercultural awareness building.The joint development of teaching modules adds a European dimension to the study material. Four representative institutions in the field of wood technology studies put efforts and expertise together in order to collaboratively create up-to-date online teaching units: Salzburg University of Applied Scienc-es. Austria (Lead), LAB University of Applied Sciences in Lahti Finland, Tallinn University of Technolo-gy (TalTech), Estonia and DHBW Baden Württemberg Mosbach, Germany.The long-term vision is to use the results of this project to strategically extend the number of partners and develop a Virtual European Wood University in which several institutions that offer post-secondary education in the areas of forestry, forest products technology, timber trade & management work strongly together and offer joint programmes.