Find support, or help research
People near you who know what living with Type 2 diabetes is like, and ways you can help find better treatments.
Support groups in Germany
- DBW Diabetiker Baden-Württemberg e.V.Diabetes self-help association in Baden-Württemberg offering self-help groups, advice, events and information on diabetes types including type 2.Karlsruhe
- Deutsche Diabetes Föderation e.V. (DDF)German federal association of self-help organisations for people with diabetes, offering a helpline, diabetes guides, social-law advice and youth events.All of Germany
- Deutscher Diabetiker Bund e.V. (DDB)Berlin-based self-help organisation for people with diabetes in Germany, offering information, materials, membership and regional support.All of Germany
- Deutscher Diabetiker Bund Landesverband Sachsen e.V.Saxony branch of a German diabetes patient organisation offering a hotline, self-help groups, information bulletins, events and training.Dresden
- Deutscher Diabetiker Bund Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.Regional self-help association for people with diabetes in Saxony-Anhalt, offering self-help groups, a newsletter, information and an annual diabetes day.All of Germany
- diabetesDEExpert-reviewed information on diabetes, risk test and service topics; umbrella of people with diabetes and professionals.All of Germany
- Diabetiker Baden-Württemberg e.V.Karlsruhe-based self-help association for people with all types of diabetes, incl. Type 2, offering support groups, advice, events, guides and advocacy.All of Germany
- Diabetiker Niedersachsen e.V.Self-help and patient organisation in Lower Saxony for people with diabetes, offering news, self-help groups including Type 2 groups, events and advice.Hannover
- Diabetikerbund Bayern e.V.Membership association for people with diabetes in Bavaria, offering self-help groups, events, contacts, and children's and youth activities.All of Germany
Contact details come from each group's own page and are checked every 3 months.
Help research
You do not need to join a trial to help. Below are the programmes we found in Germany and how to reach them. You contact them yourself: Frontlight does not collect or pass on your details.
Give blood or tissue for researchResearchers use stored samples to find what causes Type 2 diabetes.
Share your health dataA registry collects health data, without your name, so research teams can study many people at once.
Take part as a healthy volunteerStudies need people without Type 2 diabetes to compare with. Family and friends can help.