ERE: ELLIPSE Resilience Enhancement

Strengthening Suicide Prevention in Higher Education

Presentation at the International Suicide Prevention Symposium – “Beyond the Myths” (Kraków, 18 Sept 2025)

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Event: International Suicide Prevention Symposium – “Beyond the Myths” (Kraków, 18 Sept 2025)  

Link to event: ispskrakow.pl 

Talk: How digital learning solutions can empower professionals and communities in suicide prevention and postvention   

Presenter/co-organizer & co-chair: Dr. Anna Baran (Karlstad University), representing the EU-cofunded ELLIPSE Resilience Enhancement ERE project   

Why did we present ERE? 

We presented ERE at ISPS Kraków to show how digital, multilingual learning can empower universities and frontline services to act on suicide prevention and postvention -quickly, at scale, and with quality. Tracing the journey from ELLIPSE (2019 -2022) and ELLIPSE Postvention (2023–2024) to ERE (2025-2027), we highlighted how lived-experience insight, clinician expertise, and media-communication guidance have already produced open e-courses and handbooks used by teachers, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and students. ERE will extend this work with more interactivity, updates, and a cross-country higher-education survey (students, academic staff, and campus services) to map training needs and close gaps – so curricula, placements, and support services can align with what actually helps learners and patients. This work extends worldwide thanks to the engagement of over 100 members of the Special Interest Group in Education and Training in Suicide Prevention at International Association of Suicide Prevention, co-funded by Dr Anna Baran and other members of the ELLIPSE project in September 2023, with the aim of supporting the development of suicide prevention education in Europe and beyond. 

Highlights: 

ELLIPSE Project Series journey (2019 → 2027): 

  • ELLIPSE (2019–2022) led by Region Blekinge:  Erasmus+ project that launched open, certified multilingual (EN/DE/NO/HU/PL/SE/UA) e-learning for gatekeepers (students and professionals helping people in crisis – doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers,  police, fire fighters, rescuers, teachers, priests, and journalists) based on their lived experience and suicidology researchers videointerviews, with a 12-Steps Safety Plan webapp; handbooks and media-communication guidance. ellipse.12stepsplan.com 
  • ELLIPSE Postvention (2023–2024) – led by SPES Blekinge: short Erasmus+ follow-on with a multilingual postvention e-course(EN/PL/SV) and webinars for youth, suicide-loss support, and guidance for health & social care. ellipse.12stepsplan.com 
  • ELLIPSE Resilience Enhancement  – ERE (2025–2027): led by Karlstad University; expands interactivity, updates materials, and extends access from to Germany, Lithuania and Spain. An international survey mapping how students, academic teachers, and student mental-health services are educated/trained in suicide prevention across European higher education—aimed at identifying needs, gaps and priorities (will convert results to inform ERE curriculum rollout). 

Who participated? 

  • More than 150 university teachers & students; psychiatrists/physicians; psychologists; nurses; social workers 

Any continuation? 

The ISPS Project will be continued! Add to your calendar: 10 September 2026, Wrocław, Poland! 

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