10th anniversary of "Prix Perspectives" - applications welcome
Already since 2006, Janssen-Cilag AG has been promoting projects that are particularly innovative and sustainable in the collaboration with patients suffering from mental illness by awarding the "Prix Perspectives". This year, the CHF 25,000 prize honors collaborative projects with a high degree of patient orientation.
For 10 years, the "Prix Perspectives" has considered projects that promote particularly innovative and sustainable commitments in the field of mental illness. Mental illness is a growing problem. For many people, it is still not tangible what lies behind the various manifestations in the field of mental illness.
This ignorance leads to prejudice. Society finds it correspondingly difficult to deal with the mentally ill, which makes life even more difficult for those affected. For this reason, Janssen established the "Prix Perspectives" for the first time in 2006 - a sponsorship award that honors private or institutional aid projects in this area with a total of CHF 25,000.
Appreciation and promotion
Janssen-Cilag AG, together with the expert jury, encourages committed people to submit their projects and activities. Applications are open to private individuals as well as organized groups and clinics that carry out projects such as self-help groups, care services and contact points (support organizations) for relatives.
The focus of these projects should be to help those affected as well as their families to cope better with the disease.
In addition to the chance to win the grant, all participants have the opportunity to present their project to a broad professional audience at the annual congress of the SGPP on September 15, 2017 in Bern and to exchange ideas with each other. In this way, the "Prix Perspectives" not only provides financial support, but also helps to make more people aware of mental illness and the existing support services and to encourage valuable helpers in their commitment. After all, they make an essential contribution in this area.
The winners 2015
As in previous years, a jury of experts selects the winning projects. At the Prix Perspectives in 2015, there was a double win: the prize money was divided between two winning projects. Half of the prize money went to "Radio loco motivo", a radio program by people with psychiatric experience to promote new developments in psychiatry. Radio loco motivo established a comprehensive "anti-stigma campaign" ranging from rehabilitation for those affected, to exchanges with relatives, to raising social awareness of psychiatric issues as a whole.
The second winner was a mobile residential care service created in Zurich. On the one hand, it supports assisted living facilities in making their services more flexible and improving their sustainability. On the other hand, it helps establish new services for mentally ill people who want to find and keep their own apartment.
Apply now for the "Prix Perspectives":
The application period extends up to and including June 1, 2017. The award ceremony will take place at the Annual Congress of the Swiss Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SGPP) on September 15, 2017 in Bern. Further information as well as the application form and the regulations can be found at www.prixperspectives.ch
