Tell us! Introduce your observations on mental illnesses to the field of research by providing your knowledge to a team of elite researchers from the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft!

They will use your input to gather new approaches and topics for research:

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Tell us, what questions about mental health does research need to answer?

1 in 5 people have a mental health problem at some point in their life. To ensure, what is researched matches the needs of the people, we would appreciate your experience as a patient, family member, employer, healthcare professional or expert. You can help us by answering following questions of our challenge:

1. What unanswered questions about early diagnosis, and diagnosis of mental health problems, do you think research should answer?
2. What unanswered questions about the treatment, care and support of a patient with mental health problems do you think research should answer?
3. What unanswered questions about preserving mental health do you think research should answer?

We would be grateful if you could tell us your ideas, experiences and observations, these can be about yourself and also about people you know.

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The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft is Austria's independent research incubator with emphasis on Health Sciences. 550 employees work in 20 research institutions. Tell us! is part of the initiative Open Innovation in Science, which is unique in Europe. Mag. Claudia Lingner, Managing Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, emphasises that:

"Research has to serve society and has to deploy its powers so that results may be obtained rapidly. Because every fifth person will suffer from a mental illness during his/her lifetime, the involvement of those who have the greatest experience-based knowledge is crucial. We need the knowledge of those affected!"

	Lucia Malfent OIS Project Leader, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
	Claudia Lingner OIS Initiator and Managing Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
	Gertraud Leimüller OIS Co-Initiator and Open Innovation Expert, winnovation
	Johanna Stieblehner Open Innovation Expert, winnovation
	Marion Poetz Academic Advisor for OIS, Copenhagen Business School
	Claudia Wild Communication Expert and Head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technologies Assessment
	Magdalena Theurl Project Employee OIS, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft

	Pascale Ehrenfreund President of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria
	Eva C. Guinan Director of Reactor Program on Accelerating Clinical and Translational Research, Harvard Catalyst, Harvard Medical School, USA
	Edwin Ladinser General Manager HPE Austria – Help for Relatives of People with Psychological Disorders
	Keld Laursen Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
	Matt Muijen Programme Manager Mental Health and Neuro-Degenerative Disorders, WHO European Regional Office, Belgium
	Gabriele Sachs Non-tenured Professor of Psychiatrics, Medical University Vienna, University Hospital for Psychiatrics and Psychotherapy, Austria
	Ulrike Schmidt Senior Psychiatrist, Head of the Outpatient Clinic for Trauma, Research Group Leader Molecular Psychotraumatology Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatrics, Senior Physician, Head of the Trauma Department, Germany
	Philipp Türtscher Assistant Professor of Technology and Innovation, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Alfred Pritz President of the Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna, Austria
	Rebecca Müller Treasurer of GAMIAN Europe – Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks, Belgium

	Project perdiod From 16th April 2015 until 6th July 2015 it is possible to submit contributions. After this date, contents will be analyzed with the help of experts from the field and finally categorized.
	Topic clusters Following analysis by experts, contributions will be summarized into topic clusters. These clusters will be used as a basis for the identification of new research questions and topics.
	Voting and jury The defined research areas will be made available on the platform for all registered participants who will then have the opportunity to vote on the topics they deem most relevant. Afterwards, an international jury of experts will compile a final ranking.
	Results The resulting final list of topics will help us to meet our aim: to gain new research questions in the area of mental illness as a basis for prospective research projects.

	Edwin Ladinser General Manager HPE Austria - Help for Relatives of People with Psychological Disorders
	Jutta Fiegl Vice-Rector Sigmund Freud Private University
	Werner Schöny President pro mente Upper Austria
	Ulrike Schmidt Senior Psychiatrist, Head of the Outpatient Clinic for Trauma, Research Group Leader Molecular Psychotraumatology Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatrics, Senior Physician, Head of the Trauma Department
	Johannes Wancata Head of the Clinical Department of Social Psychiatry, University Hospital of psychiatry and psychotherapy; Coodinator of "Mental Health & Behavioural Medicine"
	Peter Stippl Psychotherapist, Supervisor; President of the Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapie
	Sandra Lettner President of the Professional Association of Austrian Psychologists
	Dorothea Sauter Vice-President of the German Association of psychiatric care, Project Manager for the documentation of care at the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL), textbook author
	Kurt Senekovic Chairman and general manager Achterbahn – a platform for people with mental illnesses