Our projects
Mental Health Europe develops and manages European projects involving member organisations which want to contribute to the building of a Europe that acknowledges the importance of mental health in our daily life as well as the need for prevention and promotion and the value of accessible and high quality mental health care and services.
In the latest years, MHE has been involved as project leader and partner in several European projects in the health and social field. MHE is currently collaborating in many European Commission's funded projects which respectively focus on:
- promoting patients' involvement in EU supported health-related projects (VALUE+),
- identifying useful and practical approaches to the promotion and protection of mental health (ProMenPol),
- acting on the socio-economic determinants of health (DETERMINE),
- developing effective policies and practices for child and adolescent mental health in the enlarged EU (CAMHEE),
- promoting the health of residents in psychiatric and social care institutions (HELPS).
Earlier, in 2005-2007, MHE has led the European project 'Good practices for combating social exclusion of people with mental health problems'. The focus was on the links between mental health problems and social exclusion. In particular, the project looked at the existing best practices that can contribute to tackling the inequalities that people with mental health problems encounter in access to health and social services, employment, education, training services, transport and leisure, as well as the protection of their civil and human rights.
During the same period of time, MHE has also coordinated, in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Mental Health Economics European Network (MHEEN) project. The project constructed a simple framework to identify and collect data on the primary economic dimensions relevant to mental health, and undertook a comparative analysis of how current mental health systems work and how they might be developed. It also analysed the impact of modifying economic barriers and incentive structures for the organisation of mental health services, economic data collection methods at a micro level, and reviewed the cost effectiveness of promotion and prevention strategies against a range of mental health problems occurring across the lifecycle including depression and anxiety disorders.
For further information on these and other projects that MHE has been carrying out, please visit the dedicated sections: