Funding source: European Commission, Erasmus+ Programme, Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Institutions (KA203)

Project duration: 2.5 years (1 Dec 2020 – 21 May 2023)

Purpose

The BENDIt-EU project aims to develop a comprehensive set of resources to address the problem of emotional exhaustion in academic health (i.e. academic burnout) and related fields (e.g. nurses, psychologists, social workers, etc.) at three distinct levels: organisational (IO4), collective (IO3) and individual (IO2), as well as to develop general information usable by all stakeholders (IO1).

Specific objectives

The strategic objectives of BENDIt-EU are:

Raise awareness of academic burnout by widely providing up-to-date, evidence-based information to identify, prevent and most effectively intervene on academic burnout;

Improving the well-being of students in medical and related fields who are at risk of burnout or who suffer from mild, moderate and severe forms of burnout;

Improving the skills of staff working in academic counselling services that directly address cases of academic burnout;

Provide recommendations to the management of the universities involved on the development of rules and regulations to address and prevent academic burnout.