10th European Conference on
Mental Health
Lisbon, Portugal
Sep 14 – Sep 16, 2022
Theme: Moving Forward During Times of Change
Important dates:
- Extra early bird fee ends: April 30th
- Early bird registration ends: June 2nd
- Abstract submission ends: July 11th
- Information about accepted abstracts: July 18th
- Last registration day for presenters: August 1st
- Special price for presenters ends: August 1st
- Last registration day for all: September 7th
Welcome to Lisbon!
10th Anniversary Blog
Impressions from Riga and the ECMH conferences
The 4th European Conference on Mental Health was held in Riga, Latvia. The amount of participants increased to 364 and we had conference delegates from 42 different countries all over the world. Our participant Tonje Lossius Husum from Norway shares her memories of Riga and ECMH conferences: "I think I have participated in at least five of the ECMH conferences since the beginning. I have chosen to continue to go to the ECMH conferences for many reasons. Among them is that I think the scientific program are very updated and present new developments in mental health care, especially in the community setting. I also much appreciated the multi-professionality of the participates on the conferences. Mental health is a multi-professional discipline, [...]
What is ECMH?
ECMH stands for European Conference on Mental Health. ECMH is an annual event and learning platform for mental health professionals, service users, researchers and everybody interested in the field. So far, ECMH conferences have been arranged in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia and Northern Ireland. In 2020 and 2021 ECMH went online due to covid situation. 10th anniversary of ECMH will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on Sep 14-16, 2022.
At ECMH we believe that services and care processes can be improved with respectful collaboration between different parties. In our conferences every participant’s voice is as important. We give arena for research, practice development, projects and personal experience. Our motto is: Looking for Evidence Together. ECMH community supports first-time presenters and speakers and those coming from low-income countries. We always have close collaboration with local partners in psychiatric hospitals, universities and service user associations.
Our motto is:
Looking for Evidence Together!

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From the blogs:
“The European Conference on Mental Health (ECMH) is relatively unique. It is one of very few events where lived experience, social care experience and health care experience are given equal prominence.”
“MHE would like to extend a big congratulations to all those who organised the conference.”
“The conference programme was full on, with some cracking keynote speakers at the start of each session.”
“It is no coincidence that Finland is internationally known by its role as a bridge-builder and peacemaker. To our minds, the way the conference was arranged and realised represents the Finnish culture, know-how and social design at its best!”
From the customers of the conference:
“It offers lot of excellent information. You can not get this kind of quality material elsewhere in few days.”
“ECMH offered many new insights and possible paths for personal professional development because of the excellent organisation and the interest in knowing about other models, projects, services …”
“Personally I think it is an excellent conference. Really well put together, thoughtful, considerate, inspiring. People talk about the ECMH family – cliched but true.”
“The atmosphere was very welcoming and equal.”
“ECMH is an “easy” conference to participate both for professionals and service users. Staff is easy-going and helpful. Program is always interesting and you have a great possibility to meet new people.”
“It is very important to meet each other in European context. To see how mental health is practised in other countries and look for ways to help each other to improve the quality of mental health.”
“Excellent possibility to learn new, develop yourself and your organization, meet and get new partners.”
From the podcasts:
“I spend some time in European Conference on Mental Health, it was awesome”