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EMPOWER researcher Carlota de Miquel, from Fundació Sant Joan de Déu (FSJD) team, participated in the 36th ECNP Congress 2023 held 7-10 October in Barcelona, Spain, where she presented the baseline characteristics of an RCT from the project’s local users.

The official ceremony will take place at the National Academy of Science in Canberra on 17 November 2023.

EMPOWER researchers Tom Chen and Luis Salvador-Carulla from the University of Canberra team have won an award for Highly Commended Paper in the 2023 Emerald Literati Awards with the article Blended human-technology service realities in healthcare.

EMPOWER participated at the European Congress of Psychology ECP2023 in Brighton (UK) July 3-6, 2023 together with its sister projects H- WORK, MENTUPP and MINDBOT.

EMPOWER researcher Carlota de Miquel, from Fundació Sant Joan de Déu (FSJD) team, presented the project at the XLII Jornadas de la Asociación de Economía de la Salud held in Girona, Spain

EMPOWER held its General Assembly meeting on the 15th and 16th of June, 2023 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

EMPOWER researcher Stijn Peeters from Erasmus School team was invited to present 22-3 the systematic review: “Economic evaluations of eHealth Interventions Targeting Mental Health Problems in the Workplace”.

EMPOWER researcher Renaldo Bernard, from Universität Luzern and a member of Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF) team presented the paper Strategies for Implementing Occupational eMental Health Interventions: Scoping Review during the “Work and Health” parallel Session at the research symposium Health Lucerne held January 31th, 2023.

EMPOWER will participate at the European Congress of Psychology ECP2023 in Brighton (UK) July 3-6, 2023 together with its sister projects H- WORK, MENTUPP and MINDBOT.

Our coordinator team from Barcelona, Spain, represented Empower in a workshop at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) held 14-16 March 2023 in Odense, Denmark.

Our FINCB team submitted an abstract on the project to the 12th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation held in Vienna, 14-17 December 2022, in which EMPOWER was presented.

The University of York (UoY) team submitted an abstract for the 31st European Congress of Psychiatry 2023 to be held in Paris, France on 25 – 28 March 2023.

EMPOWER researchers from the UAM team will present at the 2nd meeting of the WHO Pan-European Mental Health Coalition, local action, and regional transformation.

EMPOWER teams OMADA and FSJD participate Tuesday, 25 Octuber in the Health innovation day to be held in Barcelona, Spain, organized by Xarxa TECSAM. The project will be part of the showcase, where the platform will be presented.

EMPOWER member José Luis Ayuso Mateos, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) team, has been an active member of the guideline development group to address mental health at work.

MEPs have called for a directive on minimum standards and conditions to ensure all workers the effective right to disconnect, and to regulate the use of existing and new digital tools for work purposes.

This comprehensive report draws on the latest evidence available, showcasing examples of good practice from around the world, and voicing people’s lived experience of mental health conditions.

The EMPOWER trial has begun! The University of York team started recruitment and has recruited 100 participants for the trial in UK.

Prof. JL Ayuso from Spanish UAM team contributed to the 1st meeting of the Pan-European Mental Health Coalition that took place 4-5 May organised by the European Office of the WHO.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an important topic with many different shades of meaning to be aware of.

The European Commission supports efforts to improve the mental health of the Union. Among the EU’s ambitious response to COVID-19, the EU4Health programme tackles mental health as part of its actions to improve and foster health in the Union.

EMPOWER member Luis Salvador-Carulla from Australian National University team ANU will participate in a morning webinar on May 19th which will focus on the development of digital mental health in France and abroad.

EMPOWER is participating in a Thematic Workshop with the title ‘Working Together to Prevent Harm due to Alcohol in the Workplace‘ co-hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Health.

EMPOWER has succesfuly submitted an abstract to the Joint event at the European Congress of Psychology ECP 2022 to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia July 5-8, 2022.

Joint Webinar with sister EU-funded Projects – Fostering mental health at work: emerging strategies from innovative projects in Europe. Access the Webinar materials.

The EMPOWER’s UAM team has participated in the WHO Collaborating Centres Regional Meeting: United Action for Better Health in Europe.

10 November 2021 – Register now for free and receive a copy of the weblink for connecting.

The INNCB team has submitted an abstract presenting the Empower project to the 16th Virtual Congress of European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation 2021, which will be held online September 23-25 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Workshop 1 for Task 6.2 – Scoping review of implementation and uptake strategies, barriers and facilitators.

Promoting and protecting the mental well-being of the health and social care workforce: from self-care to dedicated support”, was held on September 24, 2020 from 11:00am to 12:30pm CET.

We are so sorry to announce our colleague Lorenzo Pelusi has passed away. Our sincere condoleances to his partners and family.