Academic Collaborative Center for Digital Health & Mental Wellbeing
We aim to make the usage of digital tools and interventions for mental wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle accessible for everyone by 2030. But how can these tools and interventions support us? How do we know that they will actually work? How do we make sure they work for everyone, and what is needed for them to become a part of our daily life?
Real impact on mental health and wellbeing
Digital tools and technologies are often presented as solutions to reduce costs or workloads in healthcare, to prevent or manage mental health problems or to promote healthy lifestyles. However, there is still much to explore when it comes to the use and effectiveness of digital tools and technologies. The Academic Collaborative Center can have real impact on the mental health and wellbeing of people in Dutch society and elsewhere, by working closely together with researchers and (civil society) organisations on these topics and finding solutions to the questions that really matter to society. Outputs developed by the Center will be relevant to academia and practice.
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Themes
Five connected themes are central to the agenda of the academic collaborative center.
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Partners
Structural collaboration and co-creation are important in the Academic Collaborative Center. What does that look like?
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Departments involved
An interdisciplinary network of researchers from various departments at Tilburg University involved in the academic collaborative center.
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Events
News
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Different disciplines meet during matchmaking event
19th March 2024On March 7, the Digital Sciences for Society strategic program, in collaboration with TAISIG and the university-wide Academic Collaborative Centers, organized a matchmaking event. Researchers from the various Schools explored opportunities for research collaboration at the intersection of the digital sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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Start of the DIGIQUITY4HEALTH project on healthier food choices in a digital environment
05th February 2024The DIGIQUITY4HEALTH project has officially started and was presented during the launch symposium From Bricks to Clicks on January 23 at Mindlabs. What opportunities and challenges exist if you want to encourage healthier food choices in a digital environment? And how do you ensure that by offering healthier options online, everyone can adopt a healthier lifestyle?
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Video: Prosperity or Wellbeing – Dies Natalis 2023
28th November 2023The theme of Tilburg University's 96th Dies Natalis was 'Experiencing Broad Prosperity'. At the end of the ceremony, Prof dr. Antoinette de Bont and Prof. Dr. Lex Meijdam gave the presentation "Prosperity or wellbeing: why broader is better." Watch the video of their presentation.
Articles
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University-wide academic collaborative centers: A matter of give and take
When it comes to addressing the really major issues, collaboration involving several disciplines and societal partners is required. With that in mind, Tilburg University has established a series of university-wide ‘academic collaborative centers’ to work on themes such as Digital Health & Mental Wellbeing. This particular center has identified a wonderful mission for itself: ‘To make working on your mental health the most normal thing in the world by the year 2030.’
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In 2030, working on your own mental health will be the most natural thing in the world
Mental health is just as important for you wellbeing as physical health. That may be stating the obvious but, as a rule, few people are open about psychological issues. Digitalization can play a role in breaking the taboo, says Professor of Innovation in Mental Healthcare Inge Bongers. “Lots of new, online forms of self-help and other therapies are becoming available. This technology makes it easier for people to talk about psychological vulnerabilities and will increase people’s individual control of their mental health and wellbeing.”
