GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The activities could cover the following areas of action:

• 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;
• 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);
• 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;
• 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;
• improved access to evidence-based, innovative, promising and community-level approaches and interventions in the management of mental health challenges;
• improved quality of life through appropriate and patient-centred follow-up care with a focus on rights and breaking through stigma and 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.