Strategic Priorities
Human Rights
Upholding the inherent dignity and rights of all people, ensuring that mental health is respected, protected and fulfilled as a human right, while addressing the intersecting inequalities that influence people’s mental health and access to support.
Lived/Living Experience
Recognising the expertise, knowledge, leadership and insight of people with lived and living experience as integral to shaping mental health systems, policies and narratives.
Empowerment
Supporting individuals to be informed, confident and in control of their mental health and recovery, with access to diverse, rights-based support options.
Belonging
Fostering inclusive, caring societies where everyone can enjoy good mental health and feel valued, connected and part of their communities.
Co-creation
Working in true and meaningful collaboration that involves people with lived experience, their supporters, professionals and communities on an equal basis to design, implement and evaluate policies, services and initiatives that impact their lives.
Integrity
Maintaining ethical independence in all decision-making, free from commercial or political interests, to ensure unbiased advocacy, research and practice.
MHE’s Strategic Plan 2026-2030: ‘Empowering Change for a Mentally Healthy Europe for All’
For forty years, Mental Health Europe has worked to change how Europe understands and responds to mental health, shifting the focus from viewing it as an individual issue to recognising it as a shared social responsibility. As the leading independent European network, we advance a rights-based and psychosocial approach that values dignity, connection and belonging as essential to mental health.
Building on Mental Health Europe’s 2021–2025 Strategy “If Not Now, When”, this new 2026–2030 Strategy will continue to build on the progress achieved. Through co-creation we will strengthen our collective voice and set out how MHE will lead the next phase of transformation: connecting evidence with lived and living experience, influencing European and national policy, and supporting communities to build inclusive and recovery-oriented systems across Europe.
