CONTEXTThe concept of mental health has progressed during the last decades. Currently, according to the World Health Organization, a good mental health is related to mental and psychological well-being. In the last years, diverse perspectives such as education have incorporated to this concept. In fact, the Mental Health Action Plan (MHAP) 2013 – 2020 mentions the importance of providing “a comprehensive, integrated and responsive mental health and social care services in community-based settings” and the need of basing the strategies and interventions on scientific evidence and/or best practice. During the last four years, Agora has applied a Successful Educational Action, Dialogic Literary Gatherings, to a new context: mental health services users, with the aim of supporting the rehabilitation process as well as the social inclusion of all the participants. The great results among participants in Barcelona pointed out to an opportunity to transfer this activity and its benefits to other organisations in Europe. OBJECTIVES1. Contribute to the social inclusion of the adult users of mental health services2. Improve some of their basic skills and competences as well as the wellbeing 3. Offer a tool to support the process of mental health advancement and promote the accessand transition to further educational activities and opportunities of the participants4. Obtain evidence of the impact and benefits of DLGs on mental health users in order toencourage other centers to implement them5. Train professionals and volunteers to act as moderators of the DLGs with mental health users6. Raise awareness between policy makers and stakeholders about the importance ofincluding Successful Educational Actions, like DLGs, to support the mental health process and promote the social inclusion. PARTICIPANTS- Mental health users older than 18, especially those from vulnerable groups (low socieconomic status, low level of education, unemployed, etc.)- Mental health and adult education professionals- Stakeholders and policy makers working in mental health and adult education ACTIVITIESOUTPUT 1: Case studies and scientific article about the impact and benefits of DLGs on mental health usersIn order to obtain evidences, we will implement DLGs in 3 different European organisations in Spain, Greece and Bulgaria.OUTPUT 2: MOOC course on how to implement DLGs with mental health usersWill be implemented online by 10 adult education and/or mental health professionals from each participant country.OUTPUT 3: Dialogic Policy Recommendations and Manifesto about the impact and benefits of the implementation of Successful Educational Actions with mental health usersWe will carry out a participative process in partner countries to elaborate them. Education and training policy makers, the whole mental health and education community and mental health users, will be part of the participative process and everything will be agreed between all of them using egalitarian dialogue METHODOLOGYThe project uses the dialogic methodology and Dialogic Literary Gatherings. They were defined as one of the Successful Educational Actions within the framework of the INCLUD-ED project Strategies for inclusion and social cohesion in Europe from education (2006-2011), a study carried out by 15 European research institutions and focused on successful educational actions (SEAs) with evidence of their impact on academic achievement and social cohesion. RESULTS, IMPACT AND BENEFITS 1. Improved educational and instrumental skills, as well as better communication skills and critical thinking2. More self-confidence and self-esteem and therefore, better future expectations3. More active participation in society and community activities4. Increased demand and take-up of adult educational opportunities by mental health services users5. Increased number of organisations implementing SEAs like DLGs6. Raised awareness among policy makers and relevant stakeholders about the importance of incorporating SEAs like DLGs to support the mental health rehabilitation and social inclusion

Title of the project: Sport for learning, learning by sport: realization of pedagogical and cultural approaches for the empowerment of people with mental disease through no competitive sport activities Objectives: 1) To improve the understanding of problems and needs of subject with mental disease. It is a complex process wich implies coordinated and integrated strategies at all the levels of society. Attitudes do not change automatically or spontaneously: this is a complex process that requires strategies coordinated and integrated at all levels of society in order to produce significant results in the elimination of social and environmental obstacles concerning this subjects, to produce awareness and, at the same time, allow active involvement of persons in difficulty. The European level is a fundamental field for the project because it will allow to acquire a more wide and articulated vision of the problem through good practices collection and selection in the partner countries. 2) To identify innovative pedagogical approaches for the empowerment of subjects with mental disease through non competitive sport activity. The success of inclusive activities depends on being oriented to the subject, therefore able to increase his autonomy and capacity of interacting with the others. The experiences acquired through non competitive sport activities show that it is possible to increase the participation of people with mental disease through sport, develop and consolidate important key competences (alphabetical, mathematical, digital) and foster the development of important relational, civic and social competences. In order to achieve this objective it is necessary to elaborate innovative and qualitative didactic/pedagogical instruments, materials and due methodologies of evaluation for supporting and improving social operators/professional educators. Activities 1) Individuation and selection of good practices Territorial animation activity and selection of good practices: consolidation and development in each partner country of pre-existing networks at regional and national level in order to actively involve all the subjects, public and private, who have a key role in education, long life learning and in carrying out social and mental health policies. The subjects and organizations to be individuated will have a key role in useful fields for the project (acquired experiences, innovation, etc.). These networks will allow the individuation and selection of good practices 2) Learning/Teaching/training activities Preliminary joint staff training event Realization of the session “Preliminary joint staff training event” in UK. Duration 5 days. The participants will be: 24 operators/educators selected in IT, RO, UK; 8 teachers selected in SL and 4 experts selected in DE. They will meet in order to share experiences and knowledge, to study in depth aspects concerning mental disease, sport and cultural activity, opportunities for pedagogical/cultural plans individuation in order to improve the empowerment of people with mental diseases. Individuate instruments and methodologies for recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning process in the field of non- competitive sport. The Preliminary joint staff training event will be managed by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation (UK). Blended mobility of learners. Training Sport events in Italy – 5 days 20 persons with mental disease will be selected in UK (10 persons), RO (10 persons). They will participate to the Learning/Teaching/Training activities expected by the project. They will be accompanied and supported by their operators/educators selected by partner organisations. The applicant ANPIS NAZIONALE will organize sport and cultural activities in 4 of its Regional ANPIS: ANPIS MARCHE, ANPIS UMBRIA, ANPIS LAZIO, ANPIS PUGLIA. 3) Transnational Meeting. During the project it will be held 4 transnational meeting. 4) Final version of the Compendium of good practices, Tool Kit for educator/operator, Tool box for learners (person with mental disease). The final version of this products will be in DVD. Partner: ANPIS Nazionale Applicant (IT), Berkshire Mental Health NHS Foundation (UK), Estuar Fundatia (RO), University of Hannover (DE), Univerza Slatina (SL).

As the coronavirus pandemic rapidly sweeps across the world, it is inducing a considerable degree of fear, worry and concern in the population at large and among certain groups in particular, such as youth with underlying health conditions, care providers and older adults. In public mental health terms, the main psychological impact to date is elevated rates of stress or anxiety. But as new measures and impacts are introduced – especially quarantine and its effects on many people’s usual activities, routines or livelihoods – levels of loneliness, depression, harmful alcohol and drug use, and self-harm or suicidal behaviour are also expected to rise. In populations already heavily affected, issues of service access and continuity for people with developing or existing mental health conditions are also now a major concern, along with the mental health and well-being of frontline workers. Aim of the ARTY project is to:▪ Extend the competences of youth workers, psychologists, social workers and practitioners in Greece, Italy, Spain, Cyprus and Romania, who work with vulnerable youth with developing or existing mental health conditions, in order to be able to offer continuous support to their beneficiaries, even during lockdowns and quarantine situations, by utilizing digital art therapy.▪ Enhance access to CSOs, youth workers, psychologists, social workers and practitioners to a guide which links creativity and the role of art approaches when working towards mental wellbeing of young people. The guide will also include practical strategies to help youth with psychological disorders to address hidden pressures and stressors through art making and exploration, showing the potential of art as a healing strategy. ▪ Enhance access to CSOs and relevant stakeholders to an awareness raising toolkit on the impact of COVID-19 to youth with developing or existing mental health conditions.The added value of implementing this project transnationally, is that it will promote the exchange of experience, learning and/or good practices between different organizations for the joint creation, testing and dissemination of the capacity building programme, the guide and the toolkit for CSOs, that can help address a common challenge across the partner countries, the EU and the globe, in line with the key principles and EU’s priorities, as well as, it will promote the strategies of EU Joint Action on Mental Health and Wellbeing and mainstream SDG3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (which has a special reference to mental health and wellbeing).

With the economic and social crisis, drug abuse, personal stress and longevity the numbers on mental illness are increasing and are being the focus of attention from the WHO (Mental Health Action Plan, 2013-2020). Partner countries are developing national strategies on Mental Health that encourage community-based services that will assure the maintenance of the family and friendship bonds. When questioned about mental illness people reveal they are still full of pre assumptions, even professionals that need to relate with these citizens. Worldwide strategies are being implemented in the area of justice in order to reduce the contact of people with mental illness with the judicial system and receive proper treatment and assistance. Among these experiences are training police forces to properly intervene with this group of disadvantaged people. Considering this and the experience of the partnership (we support => 500 people with mental illness), we identified the need to provide specialized training, both to people with mental illness and law enforcement officers, on how to relate mutually and creating cooperation practices. Portuguese Police of Public Safety (PSP) specifically informed us on the will to acquire knowledge in this theme and cooperate on integration practices. Sustained in the principles of inclusion and tolerance, we expect to: 1) improve life quality of people with mental illness by assuring their assess to community based services that promote their sense of belonging; 2) improve the access of people with mental illness to information, training and education by providing them with tailored training offers that address their needs specifically; 3) promote innovative VET practices in the sector of defence by giving tailored training opportunities to police; 4) allowing people with mental illness to continue their trajectories on the institutions where they attend vocational and job experiences by preventing them from escalating relations with the judicial system. In order to achieve this, we will create and provide specific training to: 1) people with mental health issues on the themes of informed consent, mental health law, rights and obligations, when relating to law enforcement and courts, and protection and privacy of personal data (trainees =>75); 2) law enforcement authorities, inspired particularly by the EUA experiences, on how to deal with people with mental illness and how to work on the basis of a preventive use of authority (trainees =>50). The main Implementation Activities will be: IA1) conducting the construction of the IO O1) Cooperation Practices between Training, Health and Law - Research Survey - updated information on what people with mental illness and law enforcement think about each other and what they feel is important to be in the training programs; O2) Law, Justice and Health - Training Manual for People with Mental Illness - contents, approaches, materials, experiences from the training of people with mental illness; O3) Specialized Law Enforcement Training Program on Mental Health - contents, approaches, materials, experiences from the training of police officers; O4) Manual on Cooperative Practices on Education, Health, Law and Community Network - identification of cooperative practices and recommendations; IA2) preparing and developing the Teaching/Learning Activity - brief course on “Participation, Education and Fundamental Rights” led by the Maastricht University with attendance from 8 participants with mental illness; IA3) preparing and developing the Multiplier Events - dissemination the Outputs and involvement of VET institutions, law enforcement agencies, social area institutions, health and law stakeholders and policy makers at regional, national and international level. The consortium has the skills and competence to carry this project trough assuring its success. It is constituted by research centres from universities on the field of rights and mental health, which are CDB from the University of Coimbra and DHES from the University of Maastricht, well known for their distinct contributions for research, and by social economy entities, which are ESTUAR, APCC and SPORA, all working in the area of inclusion of people psychiatric disorders. The partnership has multidisciplinary teams, very well skilled and educated with experience relating to the rights of people in disadvantage and psychiatric disorders. We will asseverate the integration in the national VET systems of the training programs (via the National Agencies for Qualifications and Police Training Centres) that will allow all institutions to replicate the training programs developed and assure its longer-term benefits. All materials will be put available in order for all that wish to improve the life of people with mental illness can use them. We expect the innovative character and the impact of the project on people´s lives to spread and reproduce throughout Europe.

Schizophrenia (SCZD) is a chronic and severe mental disorder affecting > 21 million people worldwide. Treatment with medicines and psychosocial support is effective.However, > 50% of Persons with Schizophrenia (PwSCZD) are not receiving appropriate care (WHO. Schizophrenia.Factsheets)4 forms of coercion interventions have been usually used for handling SCZD crisis; Seclusion;Mechanical Restraint;Physical Restraint;Involuntary Medication/Chemical Restraint (Crisis (Seclusion and Restraint Reduction Strategy. Mental Health Commission Ireland)According to the existing policies, regulations and trends, the use of coercive measures is being reduced at mental health settings (both at hospital and residential levels). However, what is happening in domiciliary environments? ZeroCoercion is launched with the main objective of increasing the competences (attitudes, knowledge, skills) of PwSCZD, Relatives and Mental Health Professionals (MPH) for handling Schizophrenia Crisis in domiciliary environments through the use of strategies alternative to coercionSpecific objectives are to:•Create awareness on rights and trust on reducing coercion•Transfer available existing strategies for handling SZCD crisis without coercive practices and their application n domiciliary environments•Promote self-management and also cooperation among PwSCZD, Relatives and MHP•To train PwSCZD and Relatives as Peer SupportsThrough the execution of this Project the next results will be obtained;•Co-Created Methodological Guide (I.O.1) will be developed, involving the direct participation of End Users, with the main objective of determining the key contents, methodologies and tools needed for creating and improving the critical competences of Persons with Schizophrenia (PwSCZD), Relatives and Mental Health Professionals (MHP) about how to handle Schizophrenia crisis in domiciliary environments through the use of strategies alternative to coercion•Training Materials (I.O.2) addressed to PwSCZD, Relatives and MHP about how to handle Schizophrenia crisis in domiciliary environments through the use of strategies alternative to coercion•Designed Experiential Training Activities (I.O.3); They will be the core of the Training Program and they will enhance the practical and experiential training of PwSCZD, Relatives and MHP, including the optimal and oriented exploitation of aforementioned Training Materials within real environments. Designed Experiential Training Activities (DETAs) will be specifically ADDRESSED TO TRAINERS, including guidelines for its implementation and conduction and how to properly use the Training Materials developed in I.O.2DETAs will include the design of Face-to-Face and Online Sessions, based on (1) Group Dynamics and (2) Practical Activities, and, specially, (3) Experiential Activities, where PwSCZD and Relatives will directly implement strategies for handling SZCD crisis without coercive practices in domiciliary environments with the support of MHP, while increasing their competences through putting into practice methods and tools during the Training Activities•Development of an e-Training Platform (I.O.4), for supporting the implementation of the Training Methodology, including Training Materials, Online Activities, Workspace •Creation of 6 ZeroCoercion UNITS in the Associations working with PwSCZD in order to ensure the sustainable exploitation of the project after the project lifetime.•Implementation of 6 Multiplier Events in how to handle Schizophrenia crisis in domiciliary environments through the use of strategies alternative to coercion•Development of Dissemination Actions addressed to the European collective related to SCZD and other mental health problems VALIDATION PILOT ACTIONS will be implemented involving 120 persons (20 in Spain, Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Greece and Estonia) including PwSCZD, Relatives and MPH for validation of the project resultsImpact of Validation Actions during project lifetimeIn the short term, the project will increase the competences of 120 Persons, including Persons with Schizophrenia, Relatives and MHP (20 in Spain, Romania, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia and Greece)Impact of Dissemination Actions during project lifetime3.000 persons related with the Mental Health Sector (500 in Spain, Romania, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia and Greece) will be aware, through multiplier events and dissemination actions to be carried on through the project website, newsletters, leaflets, etc…