Health and Well-Being
Your success is determined by your health and well-being in perfect balance.
The importance of health and well-being is essential for personal, academic and professional success. Through initiatives that promote health and well-being you can achieve a state of satisfaction in which the person feels good physically and emotionally.
More Mental Health, Better Higher Education
The Mental Health Promotion in Higher Education Program is a funding program that promotes the implementation of projects in the field of mental health and well-being by supporting institutions in creating an appropriate response to the increasing requests of the academic community in the areas of personal development and also strengthening the existing responses at the level of higher education institutions in promoting mental health.
Project Designation | More Mental Health, Better Higher Education
Financing | Mental Health Promotion in Higher Education Program – DGES
Start Date | 1 September 2024
End Date | 30 September 2026
Project Budget | 180.922,50 EUR
Co-financing Rate | 85% of the project's cost
Management Model | Shared financial resources
Intervention Methodology | Stepped Care Model
Number of potentially covered students | 5709
Main Objectives
A. Ensure that all IEs have specialized psychological support
B. Implement measures to promote mental health in an academic context
Specific Objectives
- Create a coordination/monitoring structure for the Program
- Ensure the existence of a psychological support office in all IEs
- Promote socio-emotional and self-help skills
- Implement psychotherapeutic interventions
- Define specific referral routes for SNS
- Carry out awareness and capacity building activities for mental health promotion
- Produce and disseminate scientific knowledge in the field of mental health in higher education
- Promote physical, mental and social well-being of the academic community
- Characterize the mental health of students in the IEs of the Consortium
- Promote integration and well-being of all/all students
Promoting Entity in the Consortium
ESSSM – Escola Superior de Saúde de Santa Maria
Consortium Partners
- ISPGAYA – Instituto Superior Politécnico Gaya
- ISCE Douro – Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro
- ESEPF – Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti
- ESESJCluny – Escola Superior de Enfermagem de São José de Cluny
- IEES – Instituto Europeu de Estudos Superiores
- ISSSP – Instituto Superior de Serviço Social do Porto
- ESS CVP Lisboa – Escola Superior de Saúde da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa – Lisboa
- Atlântica – Instituto Universitário
For more information contact: Júlia Ferreira, email: juliafferreira@ispgaya.pt
