Deadline: 24-May-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals on Promoting Mental Health to increase awareness, knowledge generation and sharing, and capacity building in the area of mental health.
Activities will include the transfer of best practices, as it was indicated by the SGPP, on children’s and adolescents’ mental health and well-being.
Specifically, the actions will support interested stakeholder organisations, to come together to discuss and exchange mental health practices and knowledge, to implement validated best practices and evidence-based projects. The activities should focus on the needs of specific and/or vulnerable groups, in particular children and adolescents.
The actions developed by civil society and health professionals’ organizations to improve mental health, namely by exchanging and implementing best practices, and implementing activities that will increase awareness, knowledge sharing and support for health professionals’ training, including the development of necessary guidance and/ or training material, such as video tutorials, manuals, etc.
- sub topic 1: implementing the best practice (Icehearts) to improve life skills and social, psychological and emotional resources among socially vulnerable children and adolescents
- subtopic 2: implementing the best practice (Let’s Talk about Children) to support mental health and wellbeing of young people and their families in vulnerable groups
Funding Information
- Available budget for this topic:
- sub-topic 1 EUR 4,000,000
- sub-topic 2 EUR 4,000,000
- The duration of proposals should range between 12 and 36 months. Given the complex ity of the activities to be funded under this topic, the recommended length of a project is between 24 and 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Academia and educational institutions, civil society organizations supporting the priority areas (health and social profession onal associations, schools, foundations, NGOs and similar entities).
- Applications by a consortium of minimum 5 eligible entities from 5 different eligible countries are accepted.
- The consortium must include at least one NGO active in the field of mental health at Union level, and at least one NGO working in the area of youth and/or representing young people.
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