Innovative Research Initiatives and Citizen Engagement in Horizon Scanning

WG 1 & WG 2 Joint meeting Horizon Scanning and Legacy 1st April 2022, 9 12 Louis Forman room, Royal Society of Medicine, London UK. WG5 update C lia M. D. Sales Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences University of Porto, Portugal

ESTABLISHED NETWORK WITH CITIZENS INVOLVED IN PUI RESEARCH Public and citizens with first hand experience of PUI Consultation Exercise Festival of Science and Arts Citizens Reference Group

194 citizens Consultation Exercise Georgia, Greece, Malta, North Macedonia, Portugal, Spain University students, parents, teachers, health professionals, and youth reference group (<18y)

Festival of Science and Arts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Andreas Winters, online gaming community, UK Gorast Cvetkovski, Film Actor, N Macedonia Jelena Jovanova, Film Actress, N Macedonia Morgan Griffiths, online gaming community, UK Radovan Petrovic , Film Director, N Macedonia Stylianou Angeliki, University student, Cyprus Anto nio Gomes, President of the National Association of Students of Psychology, Portugal Chloe Carter, social media influencer, UK Gordana Spiridonova, Highschool Psychologist, NMacedonia 10. Louie Coleman, online gaming community, UK 11. Enrico Lando, Film Director, Italy 12. Abi Silver, Novelist and author of the book The Midas Game , UK 13. Ana Poprizova, Psychologist in Highschool, N Macedonia 14. Hannah Solts, Teacher, UK 15. Thomas Hall member of the public from the online gaming community, UK 16. Garreth Hodgkinson, an Industrial Psychologist, South Africa 17. Stefanie Lochner, Psychotherapist and Parent, South Africa 18. Alessandro Pittoni, Film Producer, Italy 19. Rasa Jaunis kiene , Expert from Digital Ethics center, Lithuania 20. Aleksandar Mitov, Public health expert, N Macedonia 21. Martin Angelov, Sex Educator and medical student NGO HERA , N Macedonia 22. Vaska D. Mitova, Psychiatrist, Medical Faculty Skopje, N Macedonia 8. 9.

Lisbon training School 2021 Citizens Reference Group for PUI research Co-design a PPI Reference group and Training Program with Citizens Filipa Martins Kocho Andonovski Morgan Griffiths Laura Sousa Thomas Hall

Scientific meetings, public meetings and training events (6) Gjoneska. B. (2021). Findings from citizen consultation exercises on PUI. COST PUI International Training School. Lisbon, Portugal Available at: https://www.internetandme.eu/recordings-international-training-school-on- problematic-usage-of-the-internet-in-a-changing-society/ Ignjatova, L. (2021) (Chair). internet problematic use is associated with psychopathology specific of substance use disorder. Europadpre-congress symposium. Grenoble, France, November 19-21, 2021. Jones, J. (2021). European Citizens Initiative. COST PUI International Training School. Lisbon, Portugal Available at: https://www.internetandme.eu/recordings-international-training-school-on-problematic-usage-of-the-internet-in- a-changing-society/ Sales, C. & Jones, J. (2021). Problematic Internet Use Workshop: Co-designing a PPI Reference Group and Training Program with Citizens. COST PUI International Training School. Lisbon, Portugal Available at: https://www.internetandme.eu/recordings-international-training-school-on-problematic-usage-of-the-internet-in- a-changing-society/ Sales, C. (2021). Security online - Chair of Symposium. COST PUI International Training School. Lisbon, Portugal Available at: https://www.internetandme.eu/recordings-international-training-school-on-problematic-usage-of- the-internet-in-a-changing-society/ Training on PUI (including PPI on PUI research) for doctors specializing in psychiatry and for students. Delivered every year since 2021, as part of the training program of the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia (lecturer Prof. d-r Liljana Ignjatova).

Dissemination and Grant Applications Gjoneska, B., Potenza, M. N., Jones, J., Corazza, O., Hall, N., Sales, C. M., ... & Demetrovics, Z. (2022). Problematic use of the internet during the COVID-19 pandemic: Good practices and mental health recommendations. Comprehensive psychiatry, 112, 152279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2021.152279 Dell Osso, B., Di Bernardo, I., Chamberlain, S., Fineberg, N., Fineberg, N. A., Demetrovics, Z., Kir ly, O., Gjoneska, B., Corazza, O., Zohar, J., Potenza, M.N., Sales, C. M ... & Billieux, J. (2022). Learning to deal with Problematic Usage of the Internet (Revised Edition). COST PUI Action. Promotional videos of the Action (availiable on the Action website) Grant applications MAPP New Mobile App for Assessing Risk and Preventing Problematic Usage of The Internet in European Youth. Project application submitted to COST Innovators Grant, January 2022. BOOSTRAP Boosting Societal Adaptation and Mental Health in a Rapidly Digitalising, Post-Pandemic Europe. Project application submitted to HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-01-01-two-stage: Boosting mental health in Europe in times of change