Mag. Dr. phil. Georg Gappmayer
Occupational Therapist; Senior Lecturer
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Project Duration: 01.03.2025 to 15.04.2027
Anchor project: Anchor project: Promoting mental health through activities that foster connection in inter-company apprenticeships
This health promotion project explores and experiences the connection between activities that foster connection, resilience, and psychosocial health. The focus on everyday activities that promote connection encourages both individual and social participation.
The target group are apprentices and employees of the inter-company apprenticeship training programme (ÜBA) in retail and sales at BFI Vienna. The apprentices are between 15 and 25 years old and most of them have a migrant background. They often grow up in a socio-economically precarious environment and are confronted with reduced opportunities on the labour market.
The project focusses on the everyday lives of young people and is therefore directly linked to the interests and living environment of the apprentices. A workshop module entitled "Strengthening mental health through bonding activities" is being developed together. This involves working out which everyday activities are "good" for the individual and who or what they feel connected to. This can be other people, groups or communities, but also society, nature or certain places.
The participating apprentices explore what they need in order to experience connectedness. Apprentices and employees of the ÜBA plan a joint activity that they realise as part of the training. A permanent engagement with activities of connectedness, resilience and psychosocial health in the ÜBA is implemented through further measures.
Occupational Therapist; Senior Lecturer