European Comics, Mental Health Teaching and Professional Education (ECEDU)

The project aims to expand teacher, nursing and medical students’ knowledge about how European comics can foster a deep and nuanced engagement with mental health topics.

Through cross- and interdisciplinary collaborations between teacher, nursing, and medical education, we devise new instructional materials and innovative methods for mental health learning and teaching that strengthen the ability of European professional education to offer relevant, inclusive, and high-quality education.

Activities

The project is centered around four workshops with different focuses where key persons in the partnership meet to map, discuss and compare relevant comics, identify challenges and best practices in comics professional education, and develop new instructional materials and mental health teaching methods. Other important activities in the project include literature review, the inclusion of student perspectives, comics creation, and participation in scientific and public debates.

Project outcomes

The project aims to produce a strong European network for mental health teaching and instructional materials that create awareness and nuanced understanding of mental health issues. We develop holistic approaches that prepare teacher, nursing and medical students to meet and address mental health topics in schools and medical settings in ways that are inclusive and equitable. Other immediate results include student-made comics and an experimental project comic. 

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Title: European Comics, Mental Health Teaching and Professional Education (ECEDU)

Project Manager: Adriana Margareta Dancus (USN)

Program: Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships in higher education (KA220-HED)

Granted amount: 250.000 euro

Project period: September 2025-August 2027

Partners:

  • University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) (coordinating institution)
  • Babes-Bolyai University (UBB)
  • University of Bologna (UNIBO)
  • University of Gothenburg (UGOT)

Key researchers:

External advisory board: