Contribute Your Practice to the MENTOR Catalogue Inventory

 Complete the online submission form (EUSurvey):
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/MENTOR_WP5_Practices_Submission

OR Fill in the Word template and send it by email to: mentor@okfo.gov.hu

Estimated time to complete: 3–6 hours, depending on the complexity of the practice.
Download Submission Manual.

Submission deadline: 30 April 2026

The EU4Health Joint Action Mental Health Together – MENTOR invites practice owners, innovators, organisations, and community stakeholders to submit their evidence-based or promising practices for evaluation and inclusion in the MENTOR Catalogue Inventory – a European repository dedicated to strengthening mental health and well-being across all population groups.

MENTOR aims to promote mental health, reduce inequalities, and support social inclusion by showcasing practices that truly make a difference. We are seeking initiatives that improve mental health literacy, expand access to effective interventions, and inspire innovation in prevention, early intervention, and mental health promotion.

What We Are Looking For

The MENTOR Catalogue Inventory focuses on non-clinical or mixed-approach practices that promote mental health and psychosocial well-being, particularly through prevention, early intervention, health promotion and community-based support.

To be eligible, practices must:

• have a clear and explicit link to mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention, or psychosocial well-being, and
• meet the relevant inclusion criteria listed below, as applicable to the practice.

Inclusion Criteria

Dimension	Eligible Practices
Target groups	Children, adolescents, young people, families, and adults in community settings, including vulnerable populations (e.g. migrants, refugees, Roma communities, socio-economically disadvantaged groups, displaced persons from Ukraine). Interventions may also involve adults or older persons, provided the primary focus aligns with mental health promotion, prevention, or psychosocial well-being.
Type of intervention	Mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention, psychosocial support, mental health literacy, community resilience building, social prescribing, peer or community-based support.
Intervention setting	Schools, kindergartens, municipalities, workplaces, social services, community centres, NGOs, faith-based or civil society organisations, and other non-clinical or mixed settings.
Goals / outcomes	Improved mental well-being, resilience, coping skills, social inclusion, reduced inequalities, strengthened community support, improved access to non-clinical mental health support.
Evidence level	Practices grounded in scientific evidence or demonstrating strong potential through measurable outcomes or documented experience.
Clinical component	Practices may include clinical elements only if they are embedded within a broader preventive, promotional, or community-based approach and are not exclusively clinical in nature.

Exclusion Criteria

• Practices focusing exclusively on clinical diagnosis, medical treatment, or specialised psychiatric care without a preventive, promotional, or community-based component.
• Interventions limited to inpatient or specialist healthcare settings with no transferable community dimension.
• Activities addressing vulnerable groups without a substantive mental health or psychosocial well-being component.

Why Submit Your Practice?

By contributing, you will:

• Gain EU-level visibility for your practice among policymakers, practitioners, and researchers.
• Enable adaptation and scaling of your initiative across Europe.
• Support evidence-informed decisions and the development of sustainable mental health programs.
• Contribute to a shared European vision of equitable, community-based mental health promotion.
• Become part of a publicly accessible MENTOR Catalogue Inventory, serving as a long-term reference for innovation and best practice.
• Be eligible for the awarding of the MENTOR Trademark – a quality label recognising programmes that successfully undergo a structured, independent evaluation process, signifying excellence, reliability, and transferability.

Your Impact Matters

MENTOR is committed to identifying, evaluating, and promoting practices that truly work – especially for those most at risk of mental health challenges. By sharing your experience, you help build a stronger, more inclusive, and healthier Europe.

Guide to the Evaluation Criteria and Submission

To determine whether a practice qualifies as promising, good, or best, each submission undergoes a structured evaluation based on criteria developed by Italian National Institute of Health – ISS, Italy and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment – RIVM, Netherland draw on the European Best Practice Portal and the Dutch Recognition System for Interventions. This shared methodology has resulted in a three-tiered eligibility classification:

How to Submit a Practice for Evaluation

Practice owners must complete a structured submission form to be considered for evaluation and potential inclusion in the MENTOR Catalogue. The form collects comprehensive information on the intervention’s design, implementation, outcomes, transferability, and sustainability.

You can submit your practice in one of the following ways:

Complete the online submission form (EUSurvey):
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/MENTOR_WP5_Practices_Submission

OR Fill in the Word template and send it by email to: mentor@okfo.gov.hu

Estimated time to complete: 3–6 hours, depending on the complexity of the practice.

Submission Form Overview

The Manual provides an overview of all questions included in the submission form, along with:
• an explanation of why each element is needed,
• examples of how to complete the fields, and
• an indication of which criteria contribute to recognition as a good or best practice.

Submit Your Practice and Inspire Change!

We encourage all eligible practice owners – organisations, institutions, NGOs, local governments, schools, clinicians, community groups, and innovators – to participate.

Your practice could become a model for communities across Europe.

Together, we can shape the future of mental health promotion and prevention.