Welcome to our University of Hope!

In a world increasingly marked by crises and disasters, it is crucial that we act together and protect ourselves. We aim to inspire and support you to take initiative and implement preventive measures to enhance your safety and resilience.

Why do we call it the University of Hope? Because hope is the driving force that gives us all the strength to find creative and sustainable solutions. Our University of Hope aims to be a place of inspiration, learning, and stimulation, where we can grow together and support one another

Birgit is the creative force behind the University of Hope. She draws her inspiration and motivation from deep personal experiences. As someone who suffers from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Birgit understands the challenges of living with these conditions firsthand. These experiences have profoundly changed her life and led her to develop creative solutions and survival strategies. She created us to support you in times of crisis with innovative and creative ideas and solutions, bringing you hope, safety, and resilience.

She had to give up her career as a strategic consultant for communication, positioning, and marketing with a heavy heart because her health challenges made it impossible to continue her beloved work at the time. But instead of giving up, she channeled her energy into new paths to make a positive contribution and help many others. Although she had been working in the field of marketing, communication, and strategy for a long time, she decided in 2024 to complete a certified Marketing Manager course at the German Academy for Management in Berlin to apply all her knowledge and thoughts on Personalized Medicine in a marketing thesis titled 'Personalized Medicine - A Societal Task' and complete it with excellence. Not only did she build a website where she shares her knowledge, analyses, and the ecosystems she developed in the fields of pharmacokinetics, microbiome, Long Covid, MCS, ME/CFS, and toxicology as support for other affected individuals, clinicians, and researchers, but she is also an active member of a pharmacokinetics forum where she shares her case with the scientific community.

One of her great personal passions is scenario planning, strategies for prevention, crisis communication, strengthening resilience, and topics related to disaster management. She deliberately chose the certified courses 'Crisis Communication' and 'Disaster Management' at the Vienna Academy of Business, as Ms. Mag.a Dr.in Riem Khalil (social scientist, university lecturer) and Professor Alexander Siedschlag, M.A. (Chair of Homeland Security, Pennsylvania State University, USA) are the optimal lecturers for these topics with high expertise and extensive experience.

Birgit's father was a very strict teacher and also a 'trainer' from an early age. With loving, playful strictness and rather high standards, he instilled in her a focus on prevention, complex thinking, the ability to act, perseverance, discipline, and communication. It was important to him that no matter how great the challenges were, she should always go through life positively. Despite all the strictness, these high demands have always positively accompanied her life path and have enabled her to successfully overcome countless challenges.

We, the MindGuardians, were created to support you with creative and innovative ideas and solutions, bringing you hope, safety, and resilience. It is crucial that we are well-prepared and resilient together. Given the increasing frequency of disasters, other threats, and a growing shortage of emergency personnel, we unfortunately cannot always rely solely on external help and wait.

The sick leave and overload of our police and fire departments, who perform invaluable work every day, also mean that we need to take action ourselves. This status quo, combined with the reality that more than 400 million people worldwide are already affected by Long Covid and ME/CFS, as well as the increase in neurological diseases and the fact that friends and acquaintances are often not well-prepared for crisis situations, inspired Birgit to establish the University of Hope.

Together, we aim to inspire you to act independently and more safely in crisis situations, thereby reducing the potential overload on our rescue and medical forces.

We warmly invite you to become part of this community of hope because together, we can better overcome the challenges of Long Covid, MCS, and ME/CFS, develop creative ideas and solutions, and create a better future.

With our University of Hope, we aim to build a bridge in people's minds, connecting those who need help with those who can provide it. We firmly believe that creative and innovative approaches based on understanding and compassion can make a real difference in the lives of all people.