Project information
Project Title: Enhancing Skills, Developing Innovative Service Solutions and Policy Recommendations for Burnout Prevention, in CE Smart Specialization Sectors
Project Acronym: BURNOUT PREVENT
Programme Priority: Cooperating for a smarter central Europe - Strengthening skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship in central Europe
About the project
Project Summary
BURNOUT PREVENT project will strengthen entrepreneurial skills and set up organizational model for burnout syndrome resilience in the SMEs from 3 smart specialisation fields: Industry 4.0, Smart Health and Sustainable Food. It will provide managers and employees new knowledge and skills for implementing burnout preventive measures in the work and outside work environment. Project will achieve main change by enhancing knowledge and skills and providing comprehensive solutions to prevent burnout syndrome in SMEs. Consequently, the working environment will be improved, resulting in higher productivity and creativeness of SMEs, in selected Smart Specialization sectors: Industry 4.0, Smart Health and Sustainable Food. Key outputs include training for 420 stakeholders, a "Capacity Building Management Model" for workplace redesign, a "Personal Guide for Burnout Prevention," and a CE-wide digital detox initiative.
Project activities
In the first work package, the project will develop burnout prevention training material and 420 stakeholders will be trained. Transnational Burnout syndrome prevention measures testing will be done by SMEs in 7 CE countries resulting in the "Capacity building management model for the organisational redesign" of the working environment. The model will be taken up by 21 SMEs coming from selected Smart Specialisation Fields: Industry 4.0, Smart Health and Sustainable Food.
Second work package will improve knowledge of general public for prevention of burnout syndrome and decrease negative consequences of digital overuse. The pilot testing in 7 CE countries will translate into the "Personal guide for prevention and successful overcoming of burnout syndrome" and will be taken up by 70 employees.
Third work package will develop CE strategy and policy recommendations for improvement of occupational mental health, which will be taken up by at least 2 national public health institutes. Work package will initiate "CE Digital detox week" and improve knowledge of latest occupational mental health trends.
Project Duration: 30 months (1.7.2024 – 31.12.2026)
List of Project Partners
- E-institute (Lead Partner) – Slovenia
- Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine - Poland
- Comenius University Bratislava - Slovakia
- Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Hungary
- Padova Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture – Italy
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia – Chamber of Agricultural and Food Enterprises - Slovenia
- Croatian Chamber of Economy – Croatia
- Mazovia Development Agency Plc – Poland
- Bwcon GmbH – Germany
- National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy – Hungary
- Croatian Institute of Public Health - Croatia
Project Funding
- Total Project Budget: 2.084.155 €
- Total EU Contribution: 1.667.324 €