Dear Daniel,

Thank you very much for this update. It’s great that both the BGF Institute and IFT North are interested. Of course, we need to assess the budget needs in the wider context of the project. I will try to discuss this tomorrow morning with the management team. Let me ask you a couple of quick questions on the information you have provided:

Do I understand it right that they would plan to use their existing health literacy programme as a component of the intervention, and we would be adding further components (at least for a subset of the target group) and evaluate the results of the intervention?
When you say that they would prefer to participate underthe umbrella of the University of Cologne, do you mean that they will not join as separate partners, but will receive resources through the University? Do you think this should be arranged as a sub-contract, or you would hire the 0.5 FTE who will work with them?

Let me get back to you tomorrow also on your question about the app.

Thank you again for your help.

Franco

From: Wiesen, Daniel <wiesen@wiso.uni-koeln.de>
Sent: 08 April 2026 17:27
To: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Stephanie Stock <stephanie.stock@uk-koeln.de>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: Update Collaboration partners Germany

Dear Franco,

Stephanie and I talked to two potential partners for the implementation (WP6) in Germany earlier today: The BGF Institut (https://www.bgf-institut.de/bgf-institut/, Markus Birnkammer, Head of BGF’s Prevention Unit, markus.birnkammer@bgf-institut.de) and the IFT Nord gGmbH (https://www.ift-nord.de/en/home, Prof. Reiner Hanewinkel, hanewinkel@ift-nord.de).

As you know, the BGF has access to vocational schools (in North Rhine Westphalia and Hamburg) and does regular educational workshops (up to 12 in the course of the 3 year apprenticeship education) in terms of healthy lifestyles and health literacy. Our intervention could nicely be embedded in their existing programs.

IFT Nord gGmbH mostly focussed on addictive behaviors so far and has experience in school class self-commitment interventions to remain nicotine-free (about 7,000 school classes, kids mainly aged 12–15) and have access to schools Germany wide. This may be an option for an intervention with the earlier age group.

Both are eager to participate in our EU call.

In terms of the collaboration, however, both would like to participate under the "umbrella" of the University of Cologne. Nonetheless, both require obviously some budget.

WP6

Budget requirements of BGF and IFT: For implementing the intervention, both would require a 0.5 FTE position for the implementation period plus Material cost of 3,000 EUR per partner per year.

WP5

Stephanie’s and my cost, some slight update for Loredana.

- 1 FTE PostDoc (90.500 EUR (?) per year) for the entire project duration

- 1 Qualified student helper WHB (18,86 hours per week) for the entire project duration: 1,691 EUR per month

- Organisation costs for co-creation workshop: About 6.300 Euro (15 Person x 6 x 70 EUR)

- Open Access 2,200 EUR per person (cost of publication 750 EUR to 4000)

- Travel cost: about 3,000 EUR per person per annum for 2 FTEs

- EU Audit cost: 5,000 EUR

- Overhead required from the University of Cologne: 25%

Some more important questions:

1. Evaluation: Does the evaluation take place externally from the UK? Or should the evaluation also be conducted in Germany? Stephanie and her team have ample experience here.

2. Digital components/App: As the planned interventions contain a digital component (i.e., device-assisted monitoring and feedback), I was wondering in what capacity NYU could provide us with the necessary digital framework and programming support (e.g., for adoptions app of local needs).

Neither BGF nor ITF have developed an app which we could use. Shall we approach Sebastian Schneider from MPI?

If you like, we could have a short joint call with BGF early next week.

Apologies for this long email.

Best wishes,

Daniel