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EU Projects Archive

Past EU-funded Projects:

 

 

COMET Project (2022 – 2024)

The COMET project aims to provide an ambitious, exhaustive examination of the measures put in place to address the mental health impact of Covid-19 on healthcare workers. Started in 2022, COMET will conduct a survey among representatives of the health sector, to provide an overview of the various responses undertaken by unions, workers and hospitals as a way of preventing, reducing or addressing mental health consequences emerged during and after the Covid-19 crisis. Afterward, the project will identify and analyse successful measures in the form of case study research, providing more in-depth information on factors influencing the success and sustainability of initiatives as well as the dimensions and scope of examples of good practice, in order to identify useful lessons.

COMET will use a targeted approach in disseminating the research findings and policy lessons to various groups, including healthcare trade unions, mental healthcare professionals and policy makers. The COMET project is coordinated by AIAS-HSI of the University of Amsterdam in close cooperation with EPSU (European Public Service Union) and the EPA as a dissemination partner.

 

EASMH Project (2021 – 2023)

The Erasmus+ European Alliance for Sport and Mental Health (EASMH) project aims to create a European network capable of promoting the benefits of sport for psychiatric prevention, treatment and rehabilitation – with appropriate training materials and tools for sports instructors and health professionals.

Coordinated by ECOS, in cooperation with international partners such as University of Constanta, “Faculty of Physical Education and Sport” (Romania), Finnish Sport Federation Tampere Region (Finland), EPSI (Belgium), Everton in the Community (United Kingdom), University “L. Vanvitelli” (Italy) and European Psychiatric Association (France), EASMH is currently working to realise a series of activities aimed to promote sport as a tool to promote mental health. The EPA participates in the project as dissemination and communication partner.

The EASMH Project has produced the following Intellectual Outputs on the topic of Sport and Mental Health:

In the frame of the EPA Congress 2023, a Workshop on “Sport and physical activity in people with severe mental disorders: myth or reality?” was organised on Sunday 26 March. The Workshop was held in-person in Paris, and it was also web-streamed for online Congress participants. During the Workshop, EASMH partners presented the project, its activities, objectives and achievements to the EPA Congress delegates.

Learn more about the project by visiting the EASMH official website and by following its Facebook account. Relevant resources and publications on “Sport and Mental Health” are compiled and included in a dedicated webpage.

 

EBRA Project (2018 – 2022)

 

The EBRA consortium aims to promote coordination and collaboration among research networks and projects that share the common goal of understanding the brain and its disorders. Funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 framework and led by the European Brain Council, the EBRA project started in November 2018.

The EBRA consortium launched Call for Clusters to promote cooperation and international exchange between research projects and networks. A cluster is understood as an association of research projects under a common topic, and disease and/or thematic area such as neurology or psychiatry. Within the EBRA project, the following clusters were established:

Do you need more information? Visit the project webpage and read the brochure.

 

The Recover-E project (2018 – 2021)

LaRge-scalE implementation of COmmunity-based mental health care for people with seVere and Enduring mental ill health in EuRopE

RECOVER-E is a European Commission Horizon 2020-project led by the Trimbos Instituut, with 16 partners from 11 countries. Launched in 2018, the project complements numerous ongoing efforts in mental health service delivery transformation and innovation in Europe. In particular, the RECOVER-E goal is to implement and evaluate an evidence-based community-based service delivery model for recovery-oriented care in five sites in middle-income countries in Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania) to improve the quality of life and mental health outcomes for people with severe and enduring mental illness.

As dissemination partner, the EPA contributed to the communication and dissemination of the project’s activities and outcomes. The EPA has also supported the organisation of three Recover-E workshops:

  • on 6 April 2019 during the 27th European Congress of Psychiatry in Warsaw, Poland, focusing on the Recover-E project. Read more about the workshop on the project webpage.
  • on 7 July 2020 in the frame of the virtual 28th European Congress of Psychiatry. This workshop was centered around the advancement and challenges encountered in Community-based Mental Health care in the EU.
  • on 12 April 2021, within the 29th Congress of Psychiatry. Read the following press releases to learn more about the workshop:
    – Press Release
    – post-event Press Release