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…
The Greek pilot of CO-CAPTAIN, coordinated by the University Mental Health Research Institute (UMHRI), continues to make progress in testing and adapting a person-centred Patient Navigation model to support people experiencing mental ill-health in accessing primary cancer prevention. Operating across three sites and with two Patient Navigators involved, the implementation has so far approached 170…
In Poland, the CO-CAPTAIN pilot is being implemented under the coordination of the Medical University of Lodz. Led by Professor Magdalena Wrzesińska — a recognised expert in public health and healthcare innovation — the team brings strong academic leadership combined with hands-on involvement. Professor Wrzesińska not only oversees the national rollout but also serves as…
As part of the EU-funded CO-CAPTAIN project, the Community of Madrid is leading one of the four national pilots aimed at improving access to cancer prevention for people experiencing severe and long-term mental ill-health. The Spanish pilot is implemented through the region’s Social Care Network for People with Severe and Long-Term Mental Illness, coordinated by…
The Austrian pilot of the CO-CAPTAIN project, coordinated by the Medical University of Vienna, continues to make steady progress toward its goal: bringing primary cancer prevention closer to people experiencing mental ill-health through a person-centred navigation model. One of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious medical training and research institutions, the Medical University of Vienna leads…
On 29 September 2025, CO-CAPTAIN took part in the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Prevention & Early Detection Cluster, held at the Catalan Public Health Secretariat in Barcelona and organised by the PIECES Project. The event brought together all six projects in the cluster — CO-CAPTAIN, PIECES, PREVENT, 4P-CAN, Cancer Prevention at Work (CPW) and…
This September 2025, the European project CO-CAPTAIN has entered a key new phase with the launch of Work Package 5 (WP5), led by the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC). This work package — which will run until the end of the project in May 2026 — has an ambitious yet urgent objective: to create…
Throughout recent months, the CO-CAPTAIN project has continued to make steady progress in its pilot sites across Austria, Greece, Poland, and Spain, maintaining a strong commitment to improving access to cancer prevention through a person-centred approach — especially for individuals living with mental ill-health. As of August 2025, more than 1,200 people have been contacted…
The implementation of the patient-centred model of the European CO-CAPTAIN project is progressing strongly in its four pilot countries — Austria, Greece, Poland and Spain — with encouraging results in terms of outreach, participation and initial follow-up phases. To date, over 1,200 direct contacts have been made with individuals who could benefit from better guidance…