Blog

To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, we explore how MENTBEST is putting the European Alliance Against Depression’s four-level approach into practice across five countries. Through professional training, public awareness, community engagement and support for people experiencing depression and their families, the project aims to reduce stigma, encourage help-seeking and build lasting suicide prevention support across Europe.

Discover how Albanian migrant women in Greece found resilience through community, belonging, and shared experiences in the MENTBEST mental well-being project.

As part of the MENTBEST project, we spoke with Albert, one of our cocreators, about his personal journey with mental health and his experience contributing to the project. What follows is his story, told largely in his own words.

Developing innovative digital tools to support mental health is exciting and offers great potential—but it comes with its own set of challenges. The MENTBEST project recently hosted a workshop to capture key learnings from setting up a multi-country clinical trial for the MENTINA app.

At MENTBEST, we know that real stories make real change. That’s why our co-creators play such an important role in shaping mental health solutions that genuinely work. Today, we’d love for you to meet Rebecca O’Brien from Ireland—a passionate advocate who has turned her own experiences into something meaningful and impactful. Rebecca shares her story in her own words.

For World Mental Health Day 2025, we sat down with the MENTBEST team in Ireland to reflect on this year’s theme: “Access to Services – Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies.” In Ireland, MENTBEST is represented by the Limerick Alliance for Mental Health Support.

The EU’s MENTBEST project is driving innovation in digital mental health, with the MENTINA app offering tailored support for those who need it most.

Carmen Llanes, a 51-year-old resident of Barcelona, whose journey is a powerful testament to resilience and hope, is one of the co-creators of the MENTBEST project. Her personal journey with Major Depression has inspired her to champion mental health awareness.

Being mentally healthy is more than the absence of mental health problems. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realises their abilities, copes with everyday stresses, works productively and contributes to their community.