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• ProMenPol Conference 2009 - Promotion of Mental Health – Improving Practice and Policy
  08/10/2009 - 09/10/2009
  The 2009 ProMenPol Conference will take place in Berlin on October 8th and 9th 2009.
• EU Policy Forum - Monitoring Positive Mental Health Environments
  14/09/2009 - 16/09/2009
  Within this final conference of the project, the Policy Forum for Monitoring Positive Mental Health Environments, the results of the entire project will be presented and a policy agenda proposed to implement the recommendations and the wide use of the elaborated template in all the European regions.
• 2009 World Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health
  02/09/2009 - 06/09/2009
  The 2009 Congress theme, "Working Together for Mental Health", reflects WFMH’s call to action to "Make Mental Health a Global Priority" and recognizes the crucial role of informed, concerted, and coordinated advocacy across the entire mental health movement – consumers and service users, family members and carers, professionals, citizen advocates, and the informed public – if mental health and mental illnesses are to gain the attention and priority needed. The 2009 World Congress will provide numerous opportunities for participants to gain new information and skills, to strengthen current networks and build new ones, to share their own knowledge and experiences and to become actively engaged in the global mental health movement.
• Conference on "Quality of Life in Child and Adolescent Mental Health" (ESCAP)
  22/08/2009 - 26/08/2009
  The International Conference is sponsored by the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) and organised jointly together with the Hungarian Association for Child Neurology and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary between 22-26 August 2009. The main theme of the conference will be the improvement of the quality of life for children.
• Youth and Health Conference
  09/07/2009 - 10/07/2009
  This event will be organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the European Youth
  Forum and other youth organisations. Young people from across Europe are expected to attend, as
  well as representatives from youth organisations, health professionals and institutions. The
  conference aims to listen to young people and involve them in decision making processes regarding
  their health, as well as to generate commitment from stakeholders to improve the health of youth.
  Further information is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/youth/index_en.htm
• Better Schools Through Health: The Third European Conference on Health Promoting Schools
  15/06/2009 - 17/06/2009
  The Third European Conference on School Health Promotion “Better schools through health” will be held on 15-17 June 2009 in Vilnius.
• Mental Health in Youth and Education Priority Area Thematic Conference
  29/09/2009 - 30/09/2009
  The first Thematic Conference will be on Mental Health in Youth and Education and which will
  be organised by DG SANCO and the Swedish Public Health Department, as an event under the
  Swedish Presidency.
  • The conference will pursue three main objectives:
  1. To raise awareness about the importance of promoting mental health and well-being and of
  preventing mental disorders in youth and education;
  2. To enable an exchange at EU-level on policy activities, good practices by stakeholders and
  research projects in Member States, and;
  3. To endorse an implementation framework for the Mental Health Pact in the field of mental
  health in youth and education.
  • Five sub-themes have been identified for the process: 1. Parents and the early years; 2.
  Educational settings and learning; 3. The community environment; 4. The role of media, internet
  and new technologies, and; 5. The role of health services in promotion and prevention.
  • Preparations are underway for this event and the intention is to make this preparatory process
  as interactive and inclusive as possible.
  • All interested stakeholders, representatives, professionals and experts are invited to feed into
  the event in a number of ways:
  
  The conference background document will be developed, adding a practical
  implementation dimension to issues raised in the consensus paper. This will provide a
  starting point and guide discussion at the conference.
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  An online database of good practices in mental health, including policies, programmes,
  tools and resources, is being built up for the conference.
• Mental Health and Gender
  13/05/2009 - 13/05/2009
  This meeting will be organised by the SUPPORT project, with DG-SANCO. It will discuss some of
  the key issues, challenges and opportunities relating to gender and mental health, with the aim of
  ensuring that gender issues are flagged during the implementation of the European Pact. For further
  information, please contact: chris@sdcmh.org.uk
• Conference: Looking Out, Looking In: International Perspectives on Mental Health Improvement in Scotland
  16/04/2009 - 07/05/2009
  The Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health has planned a conference to bring together some key examples of mental health improvement work in Europe, and at home.
• 6th European Conference on Promoting Workplace Health
  27/04/2009 - 28/04/2009
  The aim of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion is to encourage more European enterprises to invest in improved health at work.

This project is supported through the Research for policy support heading of the European Union's FP6 - Contract No.: 44406