Baltic Sea Mental Health Platform

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Baltic Sea Region

Date of latest update: 2025-11-19

Description

Description (EN):

Good mental health is a cornerstone of societal resilience, yet countries in the BSR report alarmingly high rates of mental ill-health. There is an urgent need for effective mental health promotion, prevention, and treatment strategies to address this growing burden, driven by successive crises and expected to persist. The health sector alone cannot meet the demand. Overburdened primary care systems are struggling, creating inefficiencies that worsen the challenges. Addressing this issue requires a cross-sectoral approach to improving mental well-being, ensuring that BSR societies can recover from and adapt to crises. Sectors beyond health play a vital role in promoting mental health. Interreg projects highlight the potential of leveraging settings such as schools, workplaces, and cultural environments to improve outcomes. For instance, cultural interventions provide effective non-medical solutions for individuals with mild to moderate mental health conditions. However, these approaches require political recognition and systematic adoption. Decision-makers need robust information and evidence to implement cross-sectoral mental health initiatives. This project will create a platform to consolidate outcomes of various projects into actionable policy recommendations for national and regional decision-makers. By driving broader adoption of these solutions, the initiative will expand access to effective interventions, improving mental health and resilience across the BSR.

Expected Achievements (EN):

Website: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/bsr-mental-health/

Thematic information

Health and social services

Priority: (VI-B_BSR_4) Cooperation governance

Priority specific objective: ISO6.6. Other actions to support better cooperation governance (all strands)

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance

Type of intervention: 173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Secretariat of the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS)

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 892266432

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 934003-4041

Address: Wollmar Yxkullsgatan 23, 118 50 Stockholm, Sweden

Legal status: private

Organisation type: International organisation, EEIG

Website: http://www.ndphs.org

Total budget: EUR 316 848.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 253 478.40

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 63 369.60

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu

Name: Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu

Department: Department of Furniture Design

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 7770004960

Address: ul. Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznań, Poland

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.puls.edu.pl

Total budget: EUR 252 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 201 600.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 50 400.00

Odense Kommune

Name: Odense Kommune

Department: Leisure and Culture

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 969778453

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 35209115

Address: Odense Slot, Nørregade 36, 5100 Odense C, Denmark

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.odense.dk/

Total budget: EUR 235 144.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 188 115.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 47 028.80

ISCA - International Sport and Culture Association

Name: ISCA - International Sport and Culture Association

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 949702654

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 29500541

Address: Vesterbrogade 6D, 1620 Copenhagen, Denmark

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.isca.org

Total budget: EUR 225 388.80

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 180 311.04

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 45 077.76

Eesti Vaimse Tervise ja Heaolu Koalitsioon VATEK

Name: Eesti Vaimse Tervise ja Heaolu Koalitsioon VATEK

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 875084725

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 80587083

Address: Akadeemia tee 21–6 room 402, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.vatek.ee

Total budget: EUR 170 520.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 136 416.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 34 104.00

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Partners and Projects info

Secretariat of the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS)

Baltic Sea Mental Health Platform

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Poznan University of Life Sciences

Baltic Sea Mental Health Platform

Partners and Projects info

Odense Municipality

Baltic Sea Mental Health Platform

Partners and Projects info

ISCA - International Sport and Culture Association

Baltic Sea Mental Health Platform

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Estonian Coalition for Mental Health and Well-being VATEK

Baltic Sea Mental Health Platform

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Project partner

Summary

Operation of strategic importance (OSI) or above EUR 5 million

Project name (EN): Baltic Sea Mental Health Platform

Project acronym: BSR Mental Health

Project ID: #P001

Project start date: 2025-07-01

Project end date: 2028-06-30

Project status: ongoing

Relevant mentions and prizes:

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 199 900.80

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 959 920.64

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 959 920.64. Co-financing rate, 80.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSBSR

EUSBSR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:

EUSBSR Degree of compliance:

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Baltic Sea Region

Latest month of project-partner-call data publication

2025-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

115 / 115 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

1 278 / 1 278 (100%)

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Baltic Sea Mental Health Platform

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Partners (5)

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Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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