Courses 2020 SOLID School

2020 SOLID School

The "October School" is was online event with a mix of pre-recorded video presentations and live components.  

The "live" part took place from 26th to 30th October 2020, and its objectives were:

  • to impart professional skills (such as understanding the background of the Drugs and HIV/AIDS Situation in Central Asia and China; the philosophy of the SDGs; the SOLID exceed project agenda and research projects); and;
  • to update knowledge in key areas of social work, psychiatry and dependence/addiction research and practice (e.g. epidemiology, addiction, affective disorders and anxiety disorders, Opiate Substitution Treatment etc.).The topics will be presented in highly virtual/digital interactive workshops

Over 6 hours of video presentations are available, and new items are added daily - so visit us frequently! Many of the videos are bi-lingual, with closed-captions in both English and Russian.

Introduction to the SOLID Project 2020-2024

Ingo Michels explains the details of the Solid-Exceed project, outlining the activities that will take place between 2020 and 2024, and focusing on the four goals of the project:

  1. German universities have acquired expertise in development cooperation
  2. Development-relevant networks are established with the involvement of non-university actors   
  3. Research priorities based on the 2030 UN-Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals have been established at the participating universities   
  4. Graduates are adequately integrated into the job market
6 activities 47m 20s of videos

Prison Health: an insight into healthcare for marginalised persons - the example of drug users in prisons

Lectures delivered by Heino Stöver on Monday, 26 October, as part of the SOLID October School 2020

In the 8-part video lecture series Heino Stöver provides insights into the healthcare for marginalised persons, using and example of drug users in prisons. Incarcerated people are often denied the basic medical care that is generally available to people in the civic society. Harm reduction interventions available in society are often unavailable or very restricted in prison settings. Prof. Stöver starts with providing an international picture of the issue, presents recent evidence from European studies, and discusses in detail specific interventions: opioid substitution treatment, needle exchange programs, and condom programs to reduce sexual risks. In the final sections he discusses post-release mortality and overdose prevention programs.


9 activities 01h 20m 05s of videos 17 minutes of reading

Addiction diagnosis and treatment. Organization of drug users | SOLID School 2020

Self help and self organization of drug users as an important sources for solving drug- and drug policy related problems


7 activities 01h 06m 40s of videos

Social Work in Central Asia and China | SOLID School 2020

Specialists working in Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and China discuss issues related with social work and drug treatment in countries of Central Asia and China. Lectures delivered during SOLID October School 2020.

35 activities 05h 45m 05s of videos