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.

PROMEHS is a curriculum-based programme that builds social and emotional skills, resilience and positive functioning while preventing difficulties, designed for systematic integration into school curricula across several European countries.

Zippy's Friends and Apple's Friends build young children's emotional literacy and coping skills through structured, story-based sessions, with components designed for children with special educational needs. They are implemented across several European countries.

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 socio-emotional learning approach (Socio-Emotional Engagement through observation, SEE+) that supports children's emotional understanding and self-regulation; evaluated in the UK and documented in peer-reviewed research.

PATHS is a classroom SEL curriculum that builds children's capacity to recognise and manage emotions, develop positive relationships and make responsible decisions. Evaluation has shown substantially stronger benefits for girls on emotional knowledge and anxiety symptoms.

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.