Investing in Mental Health for Resilient Societies

Mental health is increasingly recognised as a societal priority across Europe, but that recognition has not yet turned into the sustained, cross-sector investment people and communities need. Investing in mental health means investing in education, employment, housing, social protection and community support, not only in health services.

As negotiations on the EU’s next long-term budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework 2028–2034, get underway, there is a real opportunity to embed mental health across EU funding and policy priorities.

BSR Mental Health Platform Associated Organisation Mental Health Europe and platform partner Estonian Coalition for Mental Health and Well-being (VATEK), together with the Estonian Mental Health Society, Mental Health Perspectives Lithuania and MIELI Mental Health Finland, are bringing together policymakers, researchers, civil society, practitioners and people with lived experience to explore how mental health investment can become concrete policy and funding decisions at EU and national level. The work of the BSR Mental Health platform will be featured during one of the panel discussions joined by NDPHS Secretariat Director Ülla-Karin Nurm, representing the platform Lead Partner and EUSBSR Policy Area Health Coordinator.

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