Programme
09.30 - 09.35 Opening statement
Ewa Kopacz •
Vice-President and the European Parliament Coordinator on Children’s
Rights
09.35 - 10.00 Keynote addresses:
Izabela Leszczyna •
Minister of Health (tbc)
Barbara Nowacka •
Minister of Education (tbc)
Adam Struzik •
M.D. Marshal of Mazovia Region – capital region of Poland,
Permanent Member of the Committee of the Regions, member of the CoR Interregion
Group on Health and Wellbeing
Glenn Micallef •
Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and
Sport - video message
10.00 - 10.45 Panel I: Setting the scene- Mental health and wellbeing of children and youth
under chairmanship of
Adam Jarubas,
Chair of the Committee on Public Health
The state of mental health of children and young people in Europe
• Children and young people testimonials
• “Children's Realities in Europe: Progress & Gaps”, Ally Dunhill, Director of Policy,
Advocacy and Communications Eurochild
• “Rat 34 - influence of social media and digital world on youth wellbeing and mental
health”, Zuzanna Jończyk, Hanna Kuźmitowicz, Julia Perlejewska, Zuzanna Rudziks,
youth representatives
10.45 - 11.30 Panel II: Supporting wellbeing and mental health of children and youth - the role of
schools
under chairmanship of
Bogdan Zdrojewski,
Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture
and Education
Examples of best practices
• Emotional education at schools- „ABC of Emotions”, Damian Kupczyk, President of
Czepczyński Family Foundation, Poland
• Health, education and guidelines for teachers working with children and youth in
suicide crisis, Aleksandra Lewandowska, National Consultant in the field of child and
adolescent psychiatry, Poland
• Wellbeing of students and policy on the use of mobile phones at schools, Kamila
Malik, Director of European School Brussels II
11.30 - 12.25 Panel III: Open discussion on how to support schools in their preventive role: what
can be done at EU, national and regional level (with participation of the audience)