The BeWell@DIGITAL project, co-funded by EU is aimed at improving the status of mental health of youth (from Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania) by empowering young people to enhance skills in digital educational routine and career development, creation of supportive peer-to-peer counselling mental health services and creation of new capacity building and employment opportunities for youth in digital working arena, all enhanced by innovative non-formal education experiences, new mobile tools and digital solutions, and open dialogue at local and national level that will reflect on broader EU area.

In the digital era, most of the world is connected to the Internet but the dependence of technologies, together with the pandemic, changes in routine and increase in uncertainty, is leading young people to develop more symptoms of anxiety, depression and interruption of sleep patterns, even triggering cyberbullying and distortion of body image.

The COVID-19 global health emergency and its economic and social impacts have disrupted nearly all aspects of life for all groups in society. For young people, especially vulnerable youth, the COVID-19 crisis poses considerable risks in the fields of education, employment, mental health and disposable income.