The purpose of our MentalHigh project is to build capacity for mental health in (and through) Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Vietnam and Cambodia with the long-term goal to transform the universities into health-promoting settings that enable students and all staff to thrive and succeed to their best potential.
MentalHigh project are expected to contribute to the regional priority of governance, peace, security, and human development in Asia. With their many ties to the community and large population, HEIs are predestined organizations to promote positive mental health, destigmatize mental health problems, facilitate easy-to access opportunities for enhancing mental health and wellbeing, and act as a resource for mental health in the community. To bring about sustainable change, the project uses a settings-based approach by addressing decision makers, academic staff, support services, and students through various interlocking mental health promotion and prevention interventions.
The main output of the MentalHigh project is a digital mental health platform, which provides students with easy access to mental health resources, ehealth, and a pathway to traditional on- and off-campus mental health support. The role of LABPSITEC (UJI) is to provide its expertise in the development of an online program to improve mental health in students and to coordinate the actions related with the development of the different mental health activities: App, online program, workshops and mental health calendar.
Reference: 101082744
Duration: 3 years (from 1/05/2023 to 30/04/2026)
Funding entity:
Eropean Union
Erasmus+ International Capacity Building.
ERASMUS-EDU-2022-CBHE-STRAND-2
PI: Azucena García Palacios
Participating institutions:
- Hochschule Fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Coordiandor) (Alemania)
- Universitat Jaume I (España)
- Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy (Finlandia)
- VNU University of Education (Vietnam)
- University of Social Sciences and Humanities Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
- Truong Dai Hoc Nong Lam (Vietnam)
- Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration (Vietnam)
- Truong Dai Hoc Su Pham Ky Thuat Vinh (Vietnam)
- Royal University of Phnom Penh (Camboya)
- National Institute of Education (Camboya)
