Mental health – stress management for first responders through augmented reality in disasters

As a new experience, we’ll be part of a French-led consortium to explore better pathways towards mental health in a very challenging workplace – disaster, accidents, and crisis. With 8 other partners from France, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, and Spain, we’ll be able from 2024-2026 to not just explore and develop better practices, but also integrate new technology for relief, awareness, management, and possibly rehabilitation in the MentaStress project.

Our project will look nothing like the image of minions – but like them, we humans are simply trying to do our best in challenging circumstances.  We’ll be back with more asap.

Representing the Nordic Health 2030 Movement and the Danish Committee for Health Education, Lars Münter participated in the High-Level WHO/Europe Conference for the Tallinn Charter 15th Anniversary Health Systems Conference: Trust and transformation – resilient and sustainable health systems for the future.

As part of the debate panel for Public Health Leadership, Lars Münter highlighted the powerful role that health leaders have as changemakers for healthy transformation beyond the health care system.

Read more about the conference.

In 2023 we began considering how different uses of the Erasmus+ framework might be a method to share Danish experiences across borders and facilitating knowledge sharing between sectors and silos.

The Erasmus+ programme enables thousands of projects for professional knowledge sharing, but also enable interpersonal upskilling. Read more about the almost endless possibilities, results, and tools here.

We will be trying to explore new ideas, given our previous experience from projects like:
Dem@Mentoring (supporting informal carers for people with dementia)
ECARIS (supporting informal carers for kidney patients)
RECADE (building a guide for rehabilitiation)
Art4Me (exploring uses of art and creativity for mental health)
INFOCARE (exploring digital support for people with dementia)
Well@SME (building a digital platform to support mental health at SME workplaces)
eHealth4Cancer (exploring digital tools for cancer support)

In 2019, a strong consortium of Nordic health stakeholders created a joint vision paper – the Nordic Health 2030 report – a result, that clearly shows a need for a different balance and focus in health and healthcare to prioritise the role and value of citizen involvement, engagement, and action to deliver systemic health and wellbeing in a future-fit and sustainable society.

In 2020-2022 the European Health Futures Forum executed an extensive Three Horizons analysis on the future of European health and the role of both the healthcare sector and skills in future health professionals. The study clearly showed the importance of nurturing local social activity and connectivity to enable a wider system change towards wellbeing.

These two processess and reports was a basis for building the Nordic Wellbeing Academy (NWA) and to practically explored how to best deliver hands-on mindsets, changes, and hope for people across the Nordics and beyond. And how to better leverage existing and new concepts and ideas into practical social or physical actions that can transform lives.