What is the RehaHub?
The Vision
The Rehab Hub is an important step towards the development of an Austrian competence centre for rehabilitation research at the research site Salzburg. It aims to be a hub for the Austria-wide stakeholder network, offering its resources and competences, supporting the further development of innovative and patient-centred rehabilitation approaches. The RehaHub stakeholders generate rehabilitation research services for the disciplines of human medicine and health sciences and offer themselves as a national and international contact point for rehabilitation research.
The Mission
This mission includes the creation of a research network to condense the competences of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) in rehabilitation research. This network should be needs- and impact-orientated and address current problems and challenges of the entire rehabilitation ecosystem.
The Goal
We want to contribute to accessible, evidence-based, socio-economically beneficial and personalised rehabilitation in Austria with research that has an impact on care.
From Vision to Reality
Background and Motivation
- The growing importance of rehabilitation in society, particularly in view of an ageing population and increasingly lifestyle-associated health problems.
- The need to improve the scientific basis and implementation of innovative research in the field of rehabilitation.
- The potential to achieve socio-economic benefits and optimise healthcare through evidence-based rehabilitation.
Participating institutions
- The Province of Salzburg as funding body and part of the project ownership, which supports the development of Salzburg as a model region.
- The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) as project organiser, contributing with the expertise of three Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes active in rehabilitation research.
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes (LBI): LBI for Rehabilitation Research, LBI for Arthritis and Rehabilitation, LBI for Digital Health and Prevention. Each institute contributes specific expertise, partner networks and research interests to the RehaHub.
Goal Setting
The common goal of the RehaHub cooperation and network partners is to establish a networking platform for rehabilitation research in Salzburg in order to further develop rehabilitation research in an interdisciplinary manner and to effectively implement its results in healthcare.
In a structured process and through the cooperation of various stakeholders, the RehaHub project was created in response to the growing need for coordinated and innovative rehabilitation research in Austria.
Initial Stage
2022Building on an existing initiative of Paracelsus Medical University Salzbugr, the first meetings between the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG), the state of Salzburg and various rehabilitation stakeholders such as the Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg took place in 2022, discussing the establishment of a rehabilitation research focus.
Concept Developement
2022Existing links in the LBG rehabilitation research network, involving various interest groups were strengthened.
Networking
2022Meetings were held in the ‘LBG Rehabilitation Research Network’, in which various interest groups and institutions are involved.
Formalisation
January 2023Submission of a detailed project application to the state of Salzburg, defining the vision, mission and goals of the RehaHub.
Kick-Off
August 202317. and 18. August 2023: Kick-Off-Meeting.
Health.Research.Connect
04.-06.2024The state of Salzburg, Innovation Salzburg and the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft’s RehaHub invited researchers to a series of workshops. The aim was to establish new Salzburg research partnerships in the fields of care and health sciences and rehabilitation research.
1. Salzburger Symposium Rehabilitationsforschung
22.11.2024On 22 November 2024, the 1st Salzburg Symposium on Rehabilitation Research took place with 230 participants and 17 speakers.
2. Salzburger Symposium Rehabilitationsforschung
21.11.2025SAVE THE DATE
21.11.2025
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Initial Stage
Building on an existing initiative of Paracelsus Medical University Salzbugr, the first meetings between the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG)…
Concept Developement
Existing links in the LBG rehabilitation research network, involving various interest groups were strengthened.
Networking
Meetings were held in the ‘LBG Rehabilitation Research Network’, in which various interest groups and institutions are involved.
Formalisation
Submission of a detailed project application to the state of Salzburg, defining the vision, mission and goals of the RehaHub.
Kick-Off
17. and 18. August 2023: Kick-Off-Meeting.
Health.Research.Connect
The state of Salzburg, Innovation Salzburg and the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft’s RehaHub invited researchers to a series of workshops. T…
1. Salzburger Symposium Rehabilitationsforschung
On 22 November 2024, the 1st Salzburg Symposium on Rehabilitation Research took place with 230 participants and 17 speakers.
2. Salzburger Symposium Rehabilitationsforschung
SAVE THE DATE
21.11.2025
Link
