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Dear Franco,

 

we have a meeting with bgf Institute tomorrow. Will keep you posted.

Kind regards,

Stephanie

 

Mit freundlichem Gruß/ With kind regards

 

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Stephanie Stock, Gesundheitsökonom (ebs) Professur für angewandte Gesundheitsökonomie und patientenzentrierte Versorgung, Kommissarische Leitung, Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie und Klinische Epidemiologie (IGKE) Klinikum der Universität zu Köln (AöR)

Cologne Institute for Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, The University Hospital of Cologne (AöR), Cologne

 

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Von: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. April 2026 09:21
An: Wiesen, Daniel <wiesen@wiso.uni-koeln.de>
Cc: zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>; Stephanie Stock <stephanie.stock@uk-koeln.de>
Betreff: RE: Z-HEALTH proposal

 

Thank you, Daniel. This is very helpful. Let me get back to you later today about possibly involving Sebastian. I really hope BGF is willing to get involved. It would add great value to the proposal. I hope this is not interfering too much with your trip to France. Franco

 

From: Wiesen, Daniel <wiesen@wiso.uni-koeln.de>
Sent: 07 April 2026 08:42
To: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>; Stephanie Stock <stephanie.stock@uk-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: Z-HEALTH proposal

 

Dear Franco,

 

Thank you again for leading this exciting EU proposal.

 

Please see enclosed a draft work package description for Work Package 5 (WP 5). I left open section "1.2.2 Interaction with other projects“ for now.

To accommodate the scope of Z-Health, I kept the descriptions rather broad. If you have comments and remarks, I am happy to make adjustments and/or more details, etc.

 

Below are some organizational points.

 

1. Budget. Tanja Leppik-Bork from the administration of the University of Cologne already provided information on the required budget for WP5 to Loredana. This is predominantly for the intervention design phase (12 months) and some for the support during the intervention implementation phase.

 

2. Digital components. 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).  

An app could also be provided through the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Behavioral Economics in Bonn. Sebastian Schneider (https://www.econ.mpg.de/sebastian-schneider), a co-author of mine, developed an official MPI study app, which could be very useful in collecting information and communication with study participants.

 

3. Intervention partner in Germany. Without an intervention partner, it will be difficult for Stephanie and me to implement the interventions in Germany.

 

Stephanie and I will talk to the BGF institute hopefully this week. The exact date is not fixed yet. We will keep you posted. 

 

We also talk to Prof. Reiner Hanewinkel (IFT), who has experience in conducting health-releated interventions in high schools in Northern Germany, to explore whether IFT could be a meaningful partner.

As I mentioned in our last digital meeting, Sebastian Schneider from the MPI Bonn could also be an academic collaboration partner for the intervention as he has contact to numerous schools in NRW and Southern Germany with which he worked in several projects (e.g. his recent AER publication, https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20211217)

If of any benefit for our proposal, we could mention the EUniWell Initiative (https://www.euniwell.eu/), the UoC is part of. 

Also, we could mention my affiliation as Principal Investigator at the Center for Social and Economic Behavior (https://c-seb.de/en/, https://uni-koeln.de/en/research/at-a-glance/research-profile/key-profile-areas/kpa-social-and-economic-behavior). 

Please note that I am on the road in France the rest of the week and I might not have (continuous, perfect) internet access. I will be back in Cologne on Saturday afternoon (11 April).

In urgent cases, I am available under +49 171 9900113. 

Best wishes,

Daniel



Dear Franco,



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

may I introduce you to Franco Sassi from the UK. Franco and his group are planning an EU project with a focus on 2 age groups (see below). I mentioned that the bgf institute already conducts a program to strengthen health and health promotion in occupational schools (Berufsschulen). The idea is if it was possible to add one of the suggested interventions in package 2 (see attachment) to your curriculum? The interventions described in the attachments can be adapted as needed and serve only as a rough draft. Daniel Wiesen from the Cologne faculty of economics specializes in behavioral economics (Verhaltensökonomie) and Daniel and I would be very happy to help you design a short add-on intervention for your program based on behavioral economics and health literacy (Gesundheitskomptenz). If you are interested we would be happy to talk to you via Zoom. I assume it will be ok for Franco if we do the first zoom meeting in German between Daniel, you and me to clarify questions and to see if this fits your purpose. 

 

 

 

    1. Health and digital literacy
    2. Self-management of digital media use
    3. Health promoting environments and nudges
    4. Resources and services

 

    1. Health and digital literacy
    2. Device-assisted monitoring and feedback
    3. Health promoting environments and nudges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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