Accessing healthcare is not always straightforward. For people experiencing mental ill-health, it can be even more complex — shaped by anxiety, fragmented services and a lack of tailored support. One of the key ambitions of the CO-CAPTAIN project has been to address these barriers through a Patient Navigation model designed to guide and support individuals…
On 16 April 2026, the CO-CAPTAIN project held its Final Conference in Brussels (Belgium), organised by Mental Health Europe in close collaboration with the project consortium. The hybrid event gathered a total of 66 participants, both in person and online, confirming strong interest in advancing more inclusive approaches to cancer prevention across Europe. Under the…
We are pleased to announce that the first PhD paper by Katrin Schäfer, PhD Student and Research Assistant at the Medical University of Vienna, based on research conducted within the CO-CAPTAIN project, has been published in Frontiers in Public Health: “Although I’m mentally ill, that doesn’t mean that I’m not also physically ill” – barriers, facilitators…
After several years of collaborative research, pilot implementation and stakeholder engagement across Europe, the CO-CAPTAIN project is approaching its final milestone: the CO-CAPTAIN Final Conference, which will take place on 16 April 2026 (09:00–13:30 CET) in Brussels as a hybrid event. The conference is organised by Mental Health Europe and will bring together project partners,…
As the CO-CAPTAIN project moves into its final stage, a series of multi-stakeholder workshops will take place across the four pilot countries — Austria, Greece, Poland and Spain — with a clear objective: transforming project insights into actionable policy recommendations to improve cancer prevention for people living with mental ill-health. People experiencing mental ill-health face…