Deadline: 25-Jan-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce the Action grants to support implementation of best practices on the ground with direct impact on the effort to tackle mental health challenges during COVID-19 to increase awareness, knowledge sharing and capacity building in the area of mental health.
Activities will include the transfer of practices shared within the Health Policy Platform network on ‘COVID-19 mental health support’. The Commission has set up a dedicated space on ‘COVID19 mental health support’ within the Health Policy Platform. This allows interested stakeholder organisations to come together to discuss and exchange mental health practices and knowledge. Coordinated by Mental Health Europe, the group includes a focus on the needs of specific and/or vulnerable groups, including children and young people. In addition to exchanging practices, the network on ‘COVID-19 mental health support’ 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.
Specific Action-Level Indicators for Reporting Purposes
Applicants must include data on the following indicators in their regular reporting activities in case of award, and must be prepared to include additional specific indicators where needed:
- Number of stakeholder organisations involved (hospitals, long-term care facilities, schools, etc,)
- Number of vulnerable groups, including health care workers and/or social workers, migrants, people with pre-existing mental health problems, older people, children and youth involved
- Number of targeted groups reached
- Number and types of dissemination material produced (e.g. n. of brochures, leaflets, web page)
- Number of stakeholders outreached by awareness activities.
Funding Information
- Available budget for this topic: EUR 750 000
- The duration of proposals should range between 12 and 36 months. Given the complexity of the activities to be funded under this topic, the recommended length of a project is 24 months.
Expected Impact
- It is expected that the implementation of best practices to address mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, for example targeting mental health in schools, will have a direct impact on the effort to reduce the burden in the Member States and will support health professionals and improve awareness.
- The short-term impact would be achieved through an increased number of public health interventions being scaled up in all Member States and improvements in disease prevention and health promotion, and management policies, and awareness-building and training capacity for health professionals to strengthen the capacity and capabilities to address the mental health impact of health crisis. The long-term impact would be the identification of solutions to tackle specific mental health issues, both at personal and societal level. Networking between experts will also provide benefits for developing and improving public health policies.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies) created under Union law or an international organisation, or
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories linked to it (OCTs))
- eligible non-EU countries: EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme (third countries, candidate countries and potential candidate countries, neighbourhood countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
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