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.
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2,08m €
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Project Budget
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80%
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of the Budget is funded by ERDF
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7
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10
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12
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2
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About the project
Project partnership
Project partners
Lead partner
E-institute, Institute for comprehensive development solutions
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Project partner
Clinic of Occupational Diseases and Environmental Health and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Hazards
Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology
International Projects Department
Department of International Projects
H-1016 Budapest
Promotion and Territorial Development Projects Unit
35137 Padova
Croatian Chamber of Economy – Zadar County Chamber
Urban Policy and Innovativeness Department
Department of Occupational Health
Division for Occupational and Sports Medicine, Disability Prevention and Psychosocial Risks at Work
Roadmap
WHY ? MAIN PROJECT CHALLENGE
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.
ENHANCING ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS FOR BURNOUT RESILIENCE IN SMEs
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).
ENHANCING BURNOUT PREVENTIVE SKILLS FOR EMPLOYEES IN SPARE TIME INCLUDING REDUCTION OF DIGITAL STRESS
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.
STRATEGY & POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH IN WORKPLACE
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.
Project documents
ABOUT THE PROJECT
BURNOUT PREVENT
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