Welcome to the Mental Health Awareness Days

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAYS 2025 for doctoral researchers and postdocs - Improving your resilience during the early career phases

The Mental Health Awareness Days 2025, which will take place from 2 to 4 December, are a joint initiative of Leipzig University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, yDiv/iDiv and HIGRADE/UFZ. Organised by its graduate academies and occupational health management units, we want to support you as researchers at our universities and research institutions. The aim of the graduate institutions and occupational health management is to inform and raise awareness of how you, as researchers at our universities and research institutions, can deal with challenging situations and conflicts in your research activities. Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers are exposed to high levels of mental stress and we would like to support you with the topics presented in order to defuse mental stress situations, set limits or even contribute to your well-being.

Participants

The event is open to all interested doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the participating institutions. Supervisors are also welcome. 

Programme

During the three days, various online activities (mostly in English) will take place, e.g. relaxation exercises and a series of short workshops on topics such as stress reduction in private and professional life, leading up and well-being in the academic environment, playfulness in the work context, and time and self-management skills. The Mental Health Awareness Days 2025 will kick off with the panel discussion Mental health in the workplace – talking openly, learning together which will bring together different scientific perspectives, personal experiences and practical approaches to the topic of mental health.

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Online and on site

Most of the programme will take place online, so you can participate conveniently from Leipzig, Halle and Jena.

Registration

Registration for all events of the Mental Health Days 2025 will open on 21 October 2025 at 9:00 a.m. You can then register for a workshop using the registration form further down on this website

Tuesday, 02 December

Wednesday, 03 December

Thursday, 04 December

Contact

The Mental Health Awareness Days are organized by: