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The project in a nutshell

• Project title: Improving mental health, wellbeing, and resilience of healthcare workers in changing environments
• Project acronym: Apollo2028
• Funding programme: Horizon Europe
• Funding agency: European Health and Digital Executive Agency (European Commission, European Union)
• Starting date: 1st January 2024. End date: 31 December 2027 (4 years)

The overall objective of the APOLLO2028 project is to provide health and care workers, organisations, and healthcare system funders and policy makers with research-backed innovative solutions to help improve mental health, wellbeing, and capacity to be more resilient to changing environments (especially daily pressures and extreme events) at the workplace.

The originality of the project is to consider resilience in health care in a holistic approach to build individual, team and organizational capabilities to face the next extreme events and daily pressures.

We study individual factors affecting resilience, group factors, organizational factors, and develop a model involving all types of factors. This model will serve as a basis for the production of guidelines to be disseminated to health and care workers, their managers, as well as policy makers and health systems funders.

We also develop an AI-based system to supporti n the identification of stress factors and recommend actions.

We involve all the stakeholders in a co-design work to finalise our solutions.

We also review the cost effectiveness of our solutions.

The main impact of our project will be a reduction of stress factors at the workplace, and an improvement of resilience of all the health and care workers. We will ensure our solutions are disseminated to all EU member states and adapted to the specifics of each of their health care systems.