Farmers Assistance Resources for Mental Resilience

The FARMRes project aims to raise farmers’ awareness of mental health issues and to guide them in shaping their daily lives, as well as their business and personal environment. It is about awareness raising and prevention, as well as detection and first aid involving farmers, their families and farmers’ consultants

FARMRes project aims at

Raising awareness

About the importance of mental health for successful farming and for farmers wellbeing

Providing

To farmers, their families and farmers’ consultants/associations with the tools needed to prevent, detect and aid in case of potential or ongoing mental health issues

Fostering

Sustainable economic and social development in the agricultural sector and rural areas through wellbeing and mental health.

The project consortium

Belgium

CEJA is the voice of Europe’s next generation of farmers, representing some 2 million young people through a membership comprised of 33 full national member organizations in 22 EU member states.

Spain

COAG is a professional farming organisation which operates in the Jaén province, in Andalusia. It provides a wide range of services from the defense of farmers interests to training, information and technical advising, R+D, dissemination of technical improvements, rural development, etc.

Finland

MTK is a provincial special interest union and it has approximately 10,000 members. MTK-Satakunta carries out extensive lobbying in the interest of farmers, forest owners and rural entrepreneurs in the Satakunta province. MTK has eight years of experience on projects focusing on improving farmers’ wellbeing.

Ireland

MHI is a national voluntary organisation which was established in 1966 as the Mental Health Association of Ireland. MHI’s aim is to promote positive mental health and wellbeing to all individuals and communities in Ireland.

Germany

HuL is an independent private body focused on agricultural family enterprises. HuL is consulting in Germany in all types of agricultural business: crop cultivation as well as animal husbandry, production and processing of biomass for food and feed as well as for energetic or industrial purposes.

Spain

OnP is a consulting enterprise specialized in project managing, monitoring and evaluation. Its staff has a wide experience in ERASMUS+ projects and in the development of VET materials in the farming and rural development sector.

FARMRes News

FARMRes Summary Report

European young farmers social and labour situation and its relationship with mental health and wellbeing This report addresses mental health matters within the agricultural sector

FARMRes Success Stories

Here you will find a series of successful experiences of prevention and overcoming of mental health problems related to stress at work. Through these stories