The Danish Committee for Health Education

The main mission of the Art4Me project is to promote mental health through art therapy to adults with mental health problems and highlight the importance of mental health promotion by visual arts, with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of millions of Europeans living with psychiatric disorders. The aim is to exchange good practices in managing successful mental health awareness campaigns such as the use of art in mental health festivals. There will be a a training entitled "Reducing stigma and discrimination of adults with mental illness and facilitating their social inclusion with the use of art" (July 2022), a meeting in Lisbon (October 2022) and a final meeting at the office of the European Parliament in Athens (February 2023). During the project, the project will examine the situation in each partner country (Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Italy and Portugal) concerning the use of art therapy and the use of art in mental health promotion. Two festivals will be organised on the occasion of world mental health day in October 2021 and October 2022. People with mental health problems from Italy, Croatia, Portugal and Greece will be involved in the project during the physical or virtual focus groups.