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GAMIAN-Europe’s president Peter Keri travelled to Ankara to represent mental health patients
As part of the pan-European Mental Health Coalition, GAMIAN-Europe’s president Péter Kéri is travelling to Ankara to represent mental health patients during the second WHO meeting to be held on 23-24th November. Challenges, goals, and actions to improve mental health...
GAMIAN-Europe participated in the Young European Greens event “Mental Health is Political”
On 11-13 November, the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) organised a three-day event in Brussels to talk about mental health and raise awareness about the need of integrating mental health into policy areas beyond health care. The event had the participation...
GAMIAN-Europe proposes a future EU Strategy for Mental Health
Today, on the occasion of the Czech EU Presidency conference entitled ‘Resilient Mental Health in the EU’, GAMIAN-Europe - representing patients - has come forward with a blueprint for a future comprehensive EU Mental Health Strategy. Speaking at the conference,...
MEPs and stakeholders issue a strong call for an ambitious, cross-sectoral and inclusive mental health strategy
On the 25th of October, GAMIAN-Europe and the MEP Alliance for Mental Health co-hosted a meeting to capitalise on the current EU-level momentum with respect to mental health. Two important developments have given rise to this momentum. The first relates to Commission...
World Mental HealthDay 2022 – Join us in Calling for an EU-level Strategy for Mental Health
Today is #Worldmentalhealthday2022. We are using this day as a call to action for policy-makers and change-makers all over the European Union in calling for a European year dedicated to #mentalhealth as well as a comprehensive EU-level strategy for mental health....
GAMIAN-Europe elects new President and executive committee
On the 29th of September, GAMIAN-Europe held its Board Meeting and a new president Péter Kéri was elected. Alongside working for GAMIAN-Europe, he helps run the Awakenings Foundation in Hungary. Who is Our New President? Péter Kéri was born in Budapest and graduated...
My HeART, our first inaugural art competition, is completed
Over the last few months we have been receiving artwork from our member organisations around the globe and finally we can share their work with you. Initially we had three juries choose one of three pieces for each artist and then finally assign points to the chosen...
Ursula von der Leyen Announces New EU Initiative on Mental Health.
“"We should take much better care of our, friends, partners and beloved ones”. These were the words stated yesterday at the at the State of the European Union (SOTEU) by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in regarding the EU putting forward a new initiative for...
GAMIAN-Europe launches its campaign #BreakingSuicideStigma
The stigma surrounding suicide, especially for young males is rampant, statistics have shown that 80% of suicides in Europe between the ages of 15-34 are male. GAMIAN-Europe has decided to address this topic and launch a campaign, titled #BreakingSuicideStigma,...
GAMIAN-Europe Endorses EPP’s Petition for EU Year for Mental Health
Following the latest success of the European Parliament parliament voting in favour of protecting workers' rights from technostress and over-connection and thereby safeguarding their mental health, a new mental health focused initiatve backed by the...
EU Stakeholders Call for Reinforcement of Mental Health Priorities in the NCDs Initiative
With the aim of helping the EU Member States to lessen the effect of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and to improve mental health and wellbeing, last month the European Commission announced the start of the Healthier Together – EU Non-Communicable...
Mental health in the digital workspace: Resolution adopted
On Tuesday the European Parliament voted to put preventative measures against technostress and over-connection in place as well as boost the benefits of working from home so as to safeguard mental health. They voted 501 in favour, 47 against and 85 abstentions....
MEP Alliance for Mental Health: Latest meeting report is available!
On the 10th of May, 2022 the MEP Alliance met to further discuss the implementation of a Euopean year for Mental Health. The meeting was chaired by MEP Tomáš Zdechovský. The main focus of this particular meeting was had its theme around the priorities &...
COVID impact on mental health: Results of the II survey are out!
Our first COVID-19 survey highlighted the pandemic's impact on mental health for people with a pre-existing mental health condition. Since then we took the initiative to see what is happening post-COVID-19; whether patient needs are being met, how mental health...
Safeguarding the future of brain health for patients: joint event
In recent months, discussions on brain health have much focused on how to bring brain research and brain health on the European agenda. Patient organisations have also been very active in bringing their views to the discussion. However, we increasingly find that in...
Brain Awareness Week: New video released!
What does brain health mean to you? What is the relationship between brain health and mental health? What are the main challenges and what should we prioritise at policy level? For Brain Awareness Week 2022, we asked these questions to our member organisations and to...
Mental health in the digital world of work: Don’t miss the report
On 27 September 2021, the MEP Alliance for Mental Health and the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing took part in a virtual expert meeting aiming at gathering experts' opinions on the issues that should be addressed by a European Parliament Own...
Quality of Life: Release of new booklet and video testimonial!
Quality of Life: Brand-new booklet and video testimonial!It is more important than ever, especially in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, that people with mental health problems are able to maintain good quality of life. For this reason, GAMIAN-Europe...
“Talk about it.” – Quality of Life Blog Series
“Talk about it.” GAMIAN-Europe Quality of Life Blog Series Simone Gynnemo always knew something was wrong. Yet it took decades to hone in on what was causing her mood swings and affecting her quality of life....
WMHD 2021: MEPs call for a European year for mental health
With the occasion of World Mental Health Day members of the MEP Alliance for Mental Health took the opportunity to call for 2023 to be dedicated to mental health. Click here to find the names and parties of the MEPs that supported the petition.