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, there will be a variety of online offerings (mostly in English), such as relaxation exercises and a series of short workshops on topics such as for example stress reduction, de-escalation and setting boundaries, playfulness in the work context, chronic illness, overthinking and mindfulness. In addition, you will be introduced to peer coaching as a tool for mental relief on site at the three locations.

The complete programme can be found here soon.

 

 

Online and on site

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

Registration

Further information on registration will be available here soon.