Mental health

Promoting mental health in general and the well-being of care providers.

Stigmatisation, difficulties in getting work … People who suffer from mental illness – and in Belgium this concerns one in three people – face difficulties that complicate their (re-)integration into society. For more than 10 years, the King Baudouin Foundation has acted in partnership with the Queen Fabiola and Julie Renson Fund to bring about changes in attitudes regarding mental health and to promote the recovery of people suffering from psychological problems.

Our activities

  • raising awareness and informing people about questions relating to negative social representations of people suffering from a psychological vulnerability
  • support for initiatives that reinforce recovery among those suffering from psychological problems
  • support and encouragement for networking among those working in the mental health sector
  • paying particular attention to mental healthcare professionals within their context of working under stress.

Mental health is part of the programme Health

Calls for projects

2025 Ernest Solvay Fund

Fostering STEM Education, Planet progress and better life for communities around Solvay

Ongoing

Grantees

Proyecto Concentrarte A.C.

SanArte : Art therapy with vulnerable communities

Fondation Médicale Reine Elisabeth - Geneeskundige Stichting Koningin Elisabeth

Wetenschappelijke prijzen 2022 - Prijs Ernest SOLVAY  / Prix scientifiques 2022 - Prix Ernest SOLVAY

Ernest Solvay prize toWalgrave Hannah for her publication "Restoring miR-132 expression rescues adult hippocampal neurogenesis and memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease

Partnerships, missions, specific initiatives

Chair ‘Transition psychiatry’

Promoting interdisciplinary research, education and knowledge sharing on transitional psychiatry

Funds and philanthropic tools

Ecole Initiatique Aurore (Friends of Fund)

Philanthropists support projects of Ecole Initiatique Aurore asbl, a school of self-knowledge aiming at transmitting life skills.

Sidekick Sam Academy Fonds

Through the Side Kick Sam Academy Fund, the Sidekick Sam Academy offers teachers teaching packages, podcasts,... to help them improve pupils' wellbeing and resilience.

Fund Gerald Futter

Supporting projects for those who feel stigmatised or excluded. Initiatives that help people regain their dignity and their place in society.Support of the recovery-oriented acti…

Press Releases

1 Million Euros for Research into Early-Onset Dementia. Prof. Dr. Patrik Verstreken Receives Generet Prize for Rare Diseases

28 02 2025

Research in transition psychiatry, a necessity to improve the care of young people with mental suffering

01 07 2021

Stories

Keeping kids well with interactive tech

Mental health

“I wanted to turn my pain and passion into purpose, and that purpose is to foster prevention of mental health issues.”
Sachin Chaudhry
founder of TrustCircle