A manualised, youth-driven programme delivered in schools that raises awareness of mental health, builds skills and encourages help-seeking. Sessions are shaped by participants' own topics and experiences, with no prescribed solutions imposed, and it has been evaluated across ten European countries.

A training programme that equips individuals to recognise mental health difficulties in others and respond supportively, including peer-based youth adaptations (e.g., PSSM-Ados in France). It is widely implemented across European countries.

A pilot initiative in the Community of Madrid that brings multidisciplinary mental health teams (psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses) directly into primary and secondary schools for early detection, multidisciplinary evaluation and specialised prevention. Regular professional presence improves early identification and inter-institutional coordination.

Developed at Heidelberg University of Education, PROTECT is an indicated prevention programme for students already showing signs of problematic media use. Delivered by trained practitioners in four structured sessions, it addresses underlying mechanisms - performance anxiety, social insecurity, boredom, dysfunctional emotion regulation - and builds healthier alternatives.

An app-based intervention implemented in German vocational schools in which students receive a brief introduction to habits and risky health behaviours, followed by a structured, app-supported period of initiated abstinence. It addresses the intersection of media use, substance use and gambling.

A structured life-skills and social-emotional learning programme for adolescents that builds personal, social and resistance skills to support positive development and prevent risk behaviours; implemented in Slovenia and Croatia.

A cognitive-behavioural, school-based programme that builds emotional resilience and coping skills to prevent anxiety and depression, delivered across age-appropriate versions. It is implemented in the Netherlands and the UK.

IPSY is a school-based life-skills programme that combines knowledge with social and personal competence training to prevent substance use; implemented in Germany and Italy and listed on the EU best-practice exchange.

A widely studied school-based life-skills curriculum that builds personal self-management, social and drug-resistance skills to prevent tobacco, alcohol and other substance use; implemented across several European countries.

Developed in Italy and now implemented across 17 European and 28 worldwide countries, Unplugged combines knowledge about substance use with social-influence approaches and life-skills training. It provides a structured protocol for cultural adaptation and freely available manuals, and was developed and assessed through a European multi-centre trial.