The study is jointly conducted by five clinics and four institutes of the Halle University Medicine.

Project partners are scientists from the Jena University Clinic, the LSC DiPH in Bremen, which combines the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS and the University Bremen, the IPA in Bochum, which refers to the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV), Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum, the Department of Health Sciences at BTU (Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg), and the Institute for Epidemiology und Social Medicine of the University Münster.