FH Campus Vienna: List project! Is recognized for mental health!

FH Campus Vienna: List project! Is recognized for mental health!

Laimgrubengasse 10, 1060 Wien, Österreich - The FH Campus Vienna sets a strong sign in health promotion: your project "Lists!" has taken the impressive second place in the health price of the city of Vienna in the "Healthy in Facilities and Organizations" category. Every year, Vienna Health Promotion (WIG) distinguishes innovative approaches to health promotion, and this year the focus was on the "healthy youth". Petra Paukowitsch, the project manager of lists!, Emphasizes that the project has been a fundamental element of student life at the university of applied sciences for over two years and has successfully raised awareness of mental health. The initiative offers low-threshold peer advice, networking offers for students and workshops for employees at FH Campus Vienna to strengthen social cohesion.

sustainable development and training of peer consultants

The Listen project! Not only combines students, but also promotes the training of peer consultants who are trained in advice and communication skills. The FH Campus Vienna offers an open course in which students have the opportunity to expand their social skills in the field of mental health and resilience. In order to work as a peer consultant, the participants have to complete at least 80% of the courses and the practical parts of the training. The peer consultants are responsible for supporting their fellow students in different locations, be it with study questions or personal concerns, so fh-campuswien.ac.at .

The FH Campus Vienna signals with this award and the continuation of the project!, that it takes the responsibility with mental health seriously. Rector Heimo Sandtner emphasizes that the university of applied sciences wants to be a safe place to learn for over 8,000 students. The project is not only estimated locally, but also has national importance, since it can serve as a template for similar initiatives, which is the relevance of lists! in the Austrian university landscape underlines, as ots.at reported.