Event

Be RIGHT Final Conference & World Mental Health Day

October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The final conference of the Eramus+ project Be RIGHT took place in Brussels in a frame of various events focused on mental health during the 9 & 10 of October.

9th October (Afternoon) EU Mental Health Alliance – ICF, Avenue Marnix 17, 1000, Brussels

The future of work and mental health – Ensuring quality employment in an ever-changing context” capacity-building seminar 

On the eve of the World Mental Health Day, the European Alliance for Mental Health – Employment & Work organised a seminar “The future of work and mental health – Ensuring quality employment in an ever-changing context”.

The seminar aimed to discuss how changes in the world of work impact mental health and well-being and what could be done to adequately address these changes. The event was relevant for EU and (sub-)national policy-makers, businesses, academia, social partners, civil society and advocacy organisations. The seminar provided an opportunity for participants to exchange and learn more from each other.

More information about the event and the link to register is available here.

10th October 10.00 to 13.00 Be RIGHT Final Conference – EPR offices, Avenue des Arts 8, c/o CCI, Ground Floor, 1000 Brussels

> Registrations started at 9.45 AM

On 10 October 2019, the Erasmus+ project Be RIGHT held its final conference Moving towards a human rights-based approach on service delivery for people with mental health issues. Be RIGHT is a project that aims to raise awareness about the human rights of people with mental health issues and created a training on human rights for professionals on mental health. The Conference discussed the main outcomes of the project, including:

• the training course on the human rights of people with mental health issues which has been developed for professionals of health and care settings;
• the board game for people with mental health issues so that they can learn and be aware of their rights.

Speakers included Mental Health Europe’s experts, representatives of the project’s consortium, European stakeholders and experts from experience.

Location: Avenue des Arts 8, c/o CCI, 1210 Brussels.

This Conference was open to the public.

The final Be Right project meeting took place on the 11th October until about 16.30, for project partners only.

10th October (Afternoon) Mental Health Europe

Mental Health Europe brought together policy makers, users and key stakeholders in the European Parliament with an interest in suicide prevention which is the topic of this year’s World Mental Health Day. To see the agenda, please click here.