The Elisabeth Pilkington Ratiu Mental Health Award 
2021 Nomination Call

The Elisabeth Pilkington Ratiu Award was launched in 2016, in the memory of Ion Ratiu's wife, Elisabeth, who has dedicated much of her life to identifying ways to help others and raising awareness about the suffering associated with mental health disorders.
 
The mission of the award is to contribute to increasing the quality of knowledge and services in this field in Romania, as well as to reduce the stigma and prejudices associated with these types of disorders. The Awardee list is available here.

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Starting 2020, the award opens to the community of mental health practitioners in Romania, enabling them to apply or be nominated, to make their initiatives and efforts more visible and to raise the quality of the lives of people who struggle with mental health problems. Through these changes, we want to encourage the community of practitioners in the field to work together, to exchange good practices and knowledge and to identify the best solutions for various types of problems.
 

How can you apply?

Please read the terms and conditions here and fill in the below form. 

Awardee Role

In order to ensure the sustainability and continuity of the award, as well as to develop the network of specialists who collaborate for the same purpose, improving the quality of mental health services in Romania and reducing the associated stigma, the winner will present the initiative, development and achieved results and impact in the next year’s awarding ceremony.

Ratiu Democracy Centre will facilitate a suitable professional context so that the participating practitioners have the opportunity to share knowledge, to find common ways and ideas of collaboration and to support each other.