H.A.R.M.O.N.Y. project – Healthy and resilient mindset with organized, nurturing digital tools for mental health

H.A.R.M.O.N.Y. project – Healthy and resilient mindset with organized, nurturing digital tools for mental health

The H.A.R.M.O.N.Y. project brings together higher education institutions (HEI), providers of vocational education and training (VET), research institutions, small medium size enterprises (SME), and EU-wide network organizations in a joint approach to support European SMEs and their employees to prevent the negative consequences of mental health challenges in today’s workplaces.

Mental health problems affect more than 13 million people in the EU SME employees. Half of EU workers consider stress to be common in their workplace and stress contributed to around half of all lost working days. The other two major mental health challenges are depression and anxiety. The project gives a special focus on those three workplace mental health challenges.

The project aims to contribute to better handling of mental health at SME workplaces:

– Improve the SME employer’s competence to prevent and deal with most common mental health issues among their employees.

– Build the capacity of HEI teachers and VET providers to improve integration of work-related mental health aspects in their programmes and competencies.

– Promote an exchange of good practices among researchers, occupational safety and health experts and service providers, and labour market actors.

– Investigate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and develop a framework and AI architecture to pave the development of a personalized self-monitoring tool for SME employees with previous history of mental health issues and employees interested in monitoring their own mental health status and preventing mental health problems.