From 9-11 December 2020, the MENTUPP Consortium met for the third time since the project started. In a three-day virtual plenary meeting, partners from 17 countries presented their progress on the MENTUPP project, in particular updates were provided on the development of the MENTUPP Intervention program, which will be housed in the MENTUPP Hub – an online platform for Small and Medium Sized enterprises in Europe and Australia to access these interventions during the MENTUPP Pilot study and Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (cRCT). The contributions by representatives from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), as well as the MENTUPP advisory board were greatly appreciated and all parties agreed that a highly productive meeting took place. Through detailed presentations, all partners summarized the significant achievements within each work package in the past six months. The collaboration between different work packages and small subgroups has shown to be key to

MENTUPP, the EU-funded Mental Health Promotion and Intervention in Occupational Settings Project, joins the international call for ‘Greater Investment and Greater Access to Mental Health for All’, this World Mental Health Day, 10th October 2020 The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that despite nearly 1 billion people living with mental health disorders, mental health is one of the most neglected areas of public health. Depression alone is expected to be the leading disease burden in the next ten years. One in 10 people is suffering from a mental disorder and those with severe conditions die 10-20 years earlier than the general population. Suicide claims up to 800,000 lives each year (1 person every 40 seconds) and is the second leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 years. In most cases, suicide occurs in the context of a mental disorder. World Mental Health Day (WMHD) takes place annually on

EU-funded MENTUPP* project emphasizes the impact of COVID-19 on mental health Support for SMEs to tackle depression urgently needed Project MENTUPP*: New website https://www.mentuppproject.eu/ Cork. Each year, around 20 million European citizens are affected from depression. Depression is a serious illness which impacts on all aspects of life, including work. While Small and Medium Sized enterprises particularly face substantial economic losses due to the global impact of COVID-19, the MENTUPP consortium anticipates, that capacities for mental health promotion and provision in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will be even more limited in the future. A second COVID-19 wave might further impact negatively on people affected by depression. This is why action on occupational mental health is urgently needed. Resources for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises “Limited capacities for mental health promotion and provision of adequate occupational mental health programmes for employees are a concern shared by most decision-makers in Small