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Researcher Mental Health and Well-being Manifesto
Creators
- 1. TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
- 2. Grenoble École de Management
- 3. Vitae
- 4. University of Amsterdam
- 5. Dublin City University
- 6. Graz University of Technology
- 7. Erzincan Binali Yildirim University
- 8. Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 9. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- 10. Ghent University
- 11. RAND Europe
- 12. University of Geneva
- 13. Aarhus University, Via University College
- 14. Bilkent University
- 15. Weill Cornell Medicine
Description
The ReMO COST Action is a network of stakeholders from all levels of the research community that has drafted a Researcher Mental Health and Well-being Manifesto that calls for the assessment of how the mental health and well-being of researchers can best be nourished and sustained through actions and initiatives at the policy, institutional, community and individual levels.
This manifesto calls for all stakeholders in the research ecosystem to engage in developing policies that monitor, improve, and maintain well-being and mental health in the research environment, delineating more encompassing metrics of success and quality, supporting work-life balance, inclusiveness, and family-friendly sustainable research careers.
The Researcher Mental Health and Well-being Manifesto has been translated into many languages in order to more effectively raise awareness of mental health in academia in many countries:
| Language | Translators | Link |
| Albanian | Ornela Bardhi; Melina Kello; Hyrije Bardhi | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7533475 |
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Arabic |
Mohamad Nadim ADI; Mais M. ALJUNAIDY | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5761750 |
| Bulgarian | Svetlana Dimitrova; Stefan Spiridonov | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7524579 |
| Catalan | Elena Redondo Castro | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5789459 |
| English | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5559805 | |
| French | Ariel Frajerman; Mathieu Fusi; Aura Fossati | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7716117 |
| Greek | Adrian Stavrakis | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7341668 |
| Hungarian | Vita Emese; Rusu Szidónia; Ugrin Zsuzsanna; Kovács Karolina Eszter; Solymosi Katalin; Gábor Kismihók; | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7312008 |
| Italian | Maddalena Fumagalli; Cristina Miceli; Anna Maria Eleuteri; Aura Fossati | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7345732 |
| Macedonian | Dragan Mijakoski; Sasho Stoleski; Darko Jankoski | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8351641 |
| Portuguese | Carolina Oliveira Borges; Inês Gaspar; Francisco Valente Gonçalves | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7516221 |
| Romanian | Claudia I Iacob; Cristina S. Trofin | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7339678 |
| Russian | Levchenko, Serhii | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7387245 |
| Serbian | Ivana B. Petrović, Milica Vukelić, Selma Talić Pantelić, Dubravka Vlahović, Milena Ratković-Fehilly, Radenka Krsmanović Whiffen, and Miroslav Trajanovići | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7516851 |
| Slovenian | Mateja Erce | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5814951 |
| Spanish | Luisa F. Echeverría King; Fernando G. Benavides; Elena Ronda; Antonio Ariza-Montes; Horacio Molina-Sánchez | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5750506 |
| Turkish | Mete Kurtoglu; Gökçe Gökalp; Dilara Özel; Merve Dökmeci | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7338402 |
| Ukrainian | Levchenko, Serhii | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7386660 |
Notes
This work was performed within the framework of COST Action CA19117 - "Researcher Mental Health".
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