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BURNOUT PREVENT

Project overview

Enhancing Skills, Developing Innovative Service Solutions and Policy Recommendations for Burnout Prevention, in CE Smart Specialization Sectors

The prevalence of anxiety, burnout syndrome, and depression at the workplace increases. Such health issues account for over 20% of all sick leaves. The BURNOUT PREVENT project strengthens entrepreneurial skills and develops innovative service solutions for an improved burnout prevention in selected industry sectors. In this process, the partners consider three main aspects of burnout: the corporate environment, spare time and digital stress. Their new and tested solutions include individual and corporate assessment tools, prevention training, digital detox services, and policy recommendations to improve mental health at the workplace.

2,08m €

Project Budget

80%

of the Budget is funded by ERDF

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Countries

10

Regions

12

Partners

2

Pilots

Duration

Start date

End date

Project progress

16%

About the project

Project will enhance the level of burnout resilience in SMEs in seven central Europe countries by improving working conditions, organizational cultures, and leadership practices and provide solutions to tackle digital stress in employees' spare time. MAIN PROJECT BENEFICIARIES ARE: 1. SMALL & MEDIUM COMPANIES from 3 Smart specialisation sectors (industry 4.0, smart health and sustainable food). Project will improve capacities for the use of organisational burnout prevention tools in companies. 2. EMPLOYEES will receive knowledge how to tackle stress and anxiety after work, testing the digital detox practices. 3. POLICY STAKEHOLDERS will receive knowledge for better alignment of occupational health policies with modern era work.

Project partnership

Project partners

Slovenija (SI)

Lead partner

E-institute, Institute for comprehensive development solutions

N/A
Address
Čučkova 5
2250 Ptuj
Country
Slovenia (SI)
Web
wwww.ezavod.si

Project partner

Clinic of Occupational Diseases and Environmental Health and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Hazards
Address
św. Teresy od Dzieciątka Jezus 8
91-348 Łódź
Country
Poland (PL)
Web
www.imp.lodz.pl
Total partner budget
195,300 €
Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology
Address
Gondova 2
81102 Bratislava
Country
Slovakia (SK)
Web
https://uniba.sk
Total partner budget
181,765 €
International Projects Department
Address
Karadžičova 2
811 09 Bratislava
Country
Slovakia (SK)
Web
www.sbagency.sk
Total partner budget
171,500 €
Department of International Projects
Address
Krisztina Krt. 99
H-1016 Budapest
Country
Hungary (HU)
Web
https://nemzetkoziprojektek.bkik.hu/en/home/
Total partner budget
165,070 €
Promotion and Territorial Development Projects Unit
Address
Piazza Insurrezione XXVIII aprile ‘45 1/A
35137 Padova
Country
Italy (IT)
Web
www.pd.camcom.it
Total partner budget
179,530 €
Address
Dimičeva ulica 13
1504 Ljubljana
Country
Slovenia (SI)
Web
https://www.gzs.si/zkzp
Total partner budget
162,490 €
Croatian Chamber of Economy – Zadar County Chamber
Address
Špire Brusine 16
23000 Zadar
Country
Croatia (HR)
Web
www.hgk.hr
Total partner budget
168,560 €
Urban Policy and Innovativeness Department
Address
ul. Świętojerska 9
00236 Warsaw
Country
Poland (PL)
Web
www.armsa.pl
Total partner budget
164,660 €
Address
Seyffertstrasse 34
70197 Stuttgart
Country
Germany (DE)
Web
Bwcon.de
Total partner budget
170,100 €
Department of Occupational Health
Address
Nagyvárad tér 2
1097 Budapest
Country
Hungary (HU)
Web
https://www.nnk.gov.hu/
Total partner budget
121,800 €
Division for Occupational and Sports Medicine, Disability Prevention and Psychosocial Risks at Work
Address
Radoslava Cimermana 64a
10000 Zagreb
Country
Croatia (HR)
Web
https://www.hzjz.hr/
Total partner budget
135,980 €

Roadmap

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WHY ? MAIN PROJECT CHALLENGE

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Work-related stress, anxiety & burnout have increased severely among employees in past years, causing negative impacts on SME’s innovativeness capacity, productivity & contributing to high rates of employee fluctuation in CE area.

2

ENHANCING ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS FOR BURNOUT RESILIENCE IN SMEs

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SPECIFIC CHALLENGE: Lack of understanding and knowledge among SMEs' managers and leading professionals about how the existing organisational and management processes are contributing to burnout syndrome of employees and consequently causing lower innovativeness and productivity of SMEs. KEY ACTIVITIES: development of two easy-to-use assessment tools based on questionnaires to assess burnout, improving skills of SMEs’ management and employees for burnout prevention through regional trainings and testing of participatory work-related measures for prevention of burnout. Testing will be done in Smart specialisation fields (S3): Industry 4.0 (ITA, DE), Smart Health (SK, HU, PL), Sustainable Food (SLO, CRO).

3

ENHANCING BURNOUT PREVENTIVE SKILLS FOR EMPLOYEES IN SPARE TIME INCLUDING REDUCTION OF DIGITAL STRESS

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SPECIFIC CHALLENGE : Lack of understanding and knowledge among employees and future employees, how to self-manage the personal stress and limit digital overuse, that both can contribute to burnout syndrome. KEY ACTIVITIES: The aim is to improve capacities among employees for prevention of burnout and decrease negative consequences of digital overuse.

4

STRATEGY & POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH IN WORKPLACE

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SPECIFIC CHALLENGE: Lack of comprehensive policy approaches in the field of work-related policies and occupational health, that could contribute to improvement of mental health at workplace. KEY ACTIVITIES: Project will develop CE strategy and policy recommendations, which will include measures to improve mental health at work and measures with which policy can contribute to productivity and innovativeness of relevant Smart specialization sectors in CE.

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

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Project Contacts

Project Manager

Darko Ferčej
Phone: 0038627493225

Finance Manager

Anja Prislan
Phone: 0038627493224

Communication Manager

anja@ezavod.si Anja Prislan
Phone: 0038627493224