Tag Archives: Euro youth mental health

Year of the Boot…strap (part 2)

EYMH is involved in the Horizon Europe project ‘Bootstrap’, which explores the problematic use of the internet among young people and its mental health effects. In 2024, EYMH collaborated with universities to host two Bootcamps for around 60 students from nine countries, focusing on research and actions related to the project.

European Disability Card – from proposal to reality

Albiona and Su, young leaders from EYMH, attended a webinar about the European Disability Card – a project to boost participation of disabled individuals across the EU. The webinar highlighted the card’s development and future plans, though it did miss discussing mental health explicitly and concerns were raised about varying treatment in different countries. Overall, the initiative seems promising but it’s still a work-in-progress.

A research oriented course & a young person’s experience

My name is Inês and I’m 22 years old. I am a young expert by lived experience and am part of the Raise Up Collective of EYMH. I attended an online course with the name of “Experience Sampling Method in Psychopathology”, through the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNs) at Maastricht University,  from theContinueContinue reading “A research oriented course & a young person’s experience”

No, Self-care is not about bath bombs

A blog from YEbE Emmy about her experiences of self-care, where we relate it to mental health and refugees, launching a study week coming soon.

LGBTQIA+ representation & the mental health impact

As another pride month comes and goes, much celebration was had in the fact that we could be ourselves with pride in person again! Below Young, Activist Lysiane from France shares with you how representation on small screen can have a positive effect on our mental health and ability to ‘love who you are’.

‘A Tale of 3 countries’

Join our upcoming event 28th May.
Hear about young people’s different experiences across Europe.

Raise Up next week!

EYMH strategy launch and Meet the trustees

#mentalstories – Tattoos & self-care – Beth, UK

In this blog, Beth from UK, shares her journey of mental health and how tattoos have helped that journey. This article in no way encourages people to get tattooed ( especially underage teenagers) but rather to promote acceptance and challenge the negative perception of tattooed people as well as the idea that tattoos are aContinueContinue reading “#mentalstories – Tattoos & self-care – Beth, UK”