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EU4Health is the EU’s funding programme to deliver on EU health policy and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The aim of this action is to reduce the burden of mental ill health through promoting good mental health and effectively preventing mental health problems across the Union.
The activities could cover the following areas of action:
a) promotion of good mental health and prevention of mental health problems through mental health literacy and awareness-raising, knowledge-sharing and exchange programmes for health professionals, creation of and participation in networks of institutions, patients and health professionals, identification and sharing of best and promising practices and approaches and implementable research results;
b) support for the design of integrated and coherent health policy approaches to key mental health challenges for children, such as those posed by the digital world (e.g., misinformation, cyberbullying, body shaming, aggressive marketing, undue access to inappropriate content, addiction and concentration deficit);
c) support for the design of comprehensive and coherent policy approaches and toolkits to address key social, environmental, commercial and behavioural factors influencing the mental health of citizens, including children and young people and their mental resilience;
d) better and earlier detection and intervention of mental health problems through development, piloting and implementation of approaches and tools for early detection and intervention in various settings e.g., schools, workplaces, prisons and community settings;
e) improved access to evidence-based, innovative, promising and community-level approaches and interventions in the management of mental health challenges;
f) improved quality of life through appropriate and patient-centred follow-up care with a focus on rights and breaking through stigma discrimination.
The activities should include an equity dimension and aim at reducing health inequalities and focus on vulnerable groups (such as children, the elderly, women in vulnerable situations and migrants and refugees, Roma people and displaced people from Ukraine) and socio economically disadvantaged groups (such as persons with low education and incomes, or persons at unemployment risk).
This action is linked to and should support the activities under DP-g-24-24 Direct grants to Member States’ authorities: Promoting a comprehensive, prevention
oriented approach to mental health to support vulnerable groups.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
− be legal entities (public or private bodies)
− be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e. EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) or eligible non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4HealthProgramme (list of participating countries)
Applicants can be:
- Academia and education establishments,
- research institutes, hospitals,
- expert networks including ERNs,
- civil society organisations: associations, foundations, NGOs and similar entities,
- established networks in the field of public health.
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions: minimum 3 independent entities from 3 different eligible countries are foreseen for the topics. Additional criteria:
- At least one NGO working in the field of mental health;
- At least one patient organisation working in the field of mental health;
This needs to be clearly highlighted in the proposal.
Projects should normally be maximum 36 months.
The requested budget (maximum grant amount) per project is expected to be EUR 500 000.
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