Membership

All organisations or persons, being personally or professionally involved in the field of mental health can become a member of GAMIAN-Europe. GAMIAN-Europe has Full members and Associated members.

Join GAMIAN-Europe today and be part of a powerful network advocating for better mental health support and policy across Europe!

Collaborating and discussing

As a predominantly user-driven organisation, GAMIAN-Europe brings together individuals with lived experience and professional organisations, fostering a unique environment for collaboration. Members benefit from the opportunity to share diverse perspectives in an atmosphere of friendship, equality, and shared understanding

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Uniting like-minded organisations

Now you are part of the powerful and developing movement that unites like-minded organisations throughout Europe, covering all spectrum of mental ill-health conditions

Gathering insights

You can share experiences and gain deeper insights into mental ill-health conditions and its treatments, including medical, psychiatric, psychological, psycho-social, pharmacological, and complementary approaches

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Members

View the list of our members here

Full membership

Non-profit body or organisation
Eur150/year
  • A quarterly newsletter providing useful and up to date information on treatments and activities.
  • Attend our annual convention where we are able to sponsor the travel cost up to 400 €.
  • Participate in pan-European surveys.
  • Participate in training programs of particular relevance to patient organisations.
  • Influence the thinking of national and European politicians and civil servants within the mental health field and to raise awareness of the problems experienced by people with mental ill-health conditions.

Associate membership

Any company, organisation, body or individual
from Eur100/year*
  • A quarterly newsletter providing useful and up to date information on treatments and activities.
  • Attend our annual convention where we are able to sponsor the whole travel cost up of at least one delegate.
  • Participate in pan-European surveys.
  • Participate in training programs of particular relevance to patient organisations.
  • Influence the thinking of national and European politicians and civil servants within the mental health field and to raise awareness of the problems experienced by people with mental ill-health conditions.

Membership fee:

  • as individual: 100 €/year,
  • as non-european association 100€/year,
  • as family association: 150 €/year,
  • as professionals association: 250 €/year
  • corporate membership: 4.900 €/year

Fill in the declaration form here

    Become a Member

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    An invoice for the yearly membership fee will be send after acceptance of your membership by the membership committee.

    All organisations or persons, being personally or professionally involved in the field of Mental Health can become member of GAMIAN-Europe.

    To encourage and promote information, education and awareness on current knowledge of the treatment and support available to those affected by mental ill-health having regard to the latest evidence based material.

    To support and engage in research projects pertaining to mental illness and the dissemination of the results of such research.

    To offer assistance to member organisations when required and develop support and training mechanisms for their members. Regarding decision makers it is extremely important to fall back on a real societal support. The same goes for fundraising.

    Criteria for full membership are defined in art 6 of the statutes:
    Any non-profit body or non-profit organisation, concerned with or engaged in support of patients with mental ill-health and those who care for them, having patient representation on its board and having activities realising patient participation shall be eligible for full membership provided they are resident or based in Europe. (WHO definition)

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