Towards a holistic support to children and adolescents’ health and care provisions in an increasingly digital society

Deadline: 19 September 2023 & 11 April 2024

Expected outcome:

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several impacts of destination 1 “Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are directed at, tailored towards and contributing to all the following expected outcomes:

• Children, adolescents and their parent/carers are educated and empowered in prevention strategies involving personalised approaches and solutions to manage, maintain and improve their own health, physical activity, nutrition habits, mental and social well-being.
• Children and adolescents, including those from vulnerable contexts, monitor their health risks, adopt healthy lifestyles at home, at school and in the community and interact with their doctors and carers, also through the means of digitally enabled solutions, better health literacy, training and critical thinking.
• Thanks to better co-creation, training, digital and health literacy, children, adolescents, parents and carers across Europe access and use person-centred, widely available solutions for children and adolescents health, care and wellbeing, appropriate to a rapidly changing and increasingly digitalised society, also increasing the risk of digital addiction.