World Mental Health Day 2025
On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, celebrated every year on October 10th, Politecnico di Milano presents a series of events aimed at the entire university community: moments of discussion, training, and in-depth exploration dedicated to psychological well-being, understanding distress, and fostering a culture of care. The program consists of sessions designed for the various members of the Politecnico community – teaching staff, technical-administrative staff, students, and PhD candidates – and concludes with an event open to the general public. All sessions will be held in Italian. Discover them below.
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World Mental Health Day 2025 events
12.15pm-1.45pm, online, in Italian
Training event reserved for Teaching Staff.
Prof. Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet will engage with teaching staff on new psychological and social challenges, aiming to raise awareness about youth distress, focusing on tools, limits, and possibilities to address these issues.
10.00-11.30, online, in Italian
Training event reserved for Technical and Administrative Staff.
Alice Fattori, Coordinator of the Workplace Distress Listening Desk, offers insights to increase awareness of psychological distress in the workplace.
12.15-pm-1.45pm, online, in Italian
Event reserved for Students and PhD candidates
Students will discuss with Prof. Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet about individual and collective psychological distress, as well as well-being and the possibility to build it.
12.30pm-2.00pm, Aula Carassa e Dadda, ed. BL27 Bovisa Lambruschini, in Italian
Event for the Politecnico Community and the public
Theatrical performance by the Asilo Republic company
A student lies about his academic career and plans a fake graduation. A reflection on the role of virtual reality, the strong sense of inadequacy, and the fear of failure generated by the self-exposure promoted by social media among young people.
On October 10, two mental health professionals will be available to the Politecnico community for initial phone support and to help receive information about possible care pathways and available services.
- For students and PhD candidates: From 10 AM to 1 PM, you can contact a psychotherapist from the PoliPsi service at +39 02 2399 2275
- For faculty and technical-administrative staff: From 10 AM to 1 PM, you can contact the representative of the Workplace Distress Support Service at +39 02 2399 3765
In addition to this one-day support, our university promotes a range of ongoing mental health services available to the entire community. Discover them in this infographic.
Identity and Wellbeing
Starting from May 2025, the "Identity and Wellbeing" platform will offer a series of webinars focused on various topics related to psychophysical wellbeing.
The proposed webinars will include:
- Facing change: an interactive webinar aimed at exploring change with greater awareness.
September 23rd (in Italian) and September 30th (in English).- inDependence: an exploration of the phenomenology of addictions and possible intervention approaches.
October 2nd (in Italian).The webinars, open to the entire student community of the University, will be delivered via the Microsoft Teams platform. All sessions will be led by experienced professionals in the field of psychophysical wellbeing, who are deeply familiar with the Polytechnic Community and its values.
Discover them:
PoliPsi is the free counselling and psychological and psychotherapeutic support service for students and PhD candidates at the Politecnico di Milano. It has a team of experts (psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists) in relational dynamics and learning processes. The service offers a place to confront and receive competent support in moments of discomfort, inherent to the personal and academic sphere. Maximum confidentiality and respect for privacy of any data and materials exchanged or collected are guaranteed.
In particular, with the help offered by the service you can:
- deal with difficult situations encountered upon entering academic life (both of an academic or psychological nature);
- improve your academic performance (targeting and refining your chosen academic path, the motivations and the reasons behind it and the most effective personal and cooperative strategies for achieving your desired results);
- get to know and better understand yourself, others, your most meaningful relationships and the situations that you put yourself in in anticipation of a rich, prestigious and original personal, professional and relational future;
- better cope with your first work placement experiences, in furtherance of internships, apprenticeships and research activities.
Depending on the specific problem, the service offers varying levels of psychological and psychotherapeutic support and counselling.
For difficulties in the academic sphere (study method, organisation, motivation, anxiety, delayed studies, doubts about choice) the service offers:
- a seminar on study and learning methodologies;
- 1 to 5 individual sessions in Educational Psychological Counselling with a psychologist with expertise in guidance and teaching methodologies.
For difficulties, also of a personal nature, the service offers:
- a cycle of 8 individual sessions - with psychotherapist and if necessary a follow up with a coordinator* psychotherapist - sessions are weekly and offered in parallel with or at the end of the experiential course
- Starting from Wednesday, July 9th, the Polipsi service will also be active at Bovisa La Masa, Building B30, Room 1.2 (located on the first floor). The methods for accessing the service and the courses remain unchanged, you will need to register on the Polipsi platform as always.
- A Space with You – Psychological Counseling Service: from September 1st to October 10th, a psychological counseling service will be available. This is a free and confidential service dedicated to students and PhD candidates living in the residences.
All the info here
To access to the Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Support service, please click on the following link:
Services can be requested at any time - after registration and in full compliance with privacy regulations - by accessing the PoliPsi application from your personal Online Services.
For teaching, technical and administrative staff, the CUG has a help desk for issues of work-related stress. A psychological counselling service is also available for staff and members of the supplementary healthcare scheme Insieme Salute; for more information, visit the PoliMI People Care section of the Online Services.
Actions
- World mental health day
- Educational psychological counselling
- Psychotherapeutic support
- PoliPsi Experiential Labs
- Special help desk for stalking victims: stalkingsos@polimi.it
- Mindfulness for students and PhD students
Contacts
For undergraduates and PhD students enrolled in the Polipsi service
polipsi@polimi.it
To request the service, please register in the PoliPsi Platform available in your Online services.
For Teaching, Technical and Administrative Staff
Listening and Work-related Distress Counselling Desk: sportellodiascolto@polimi.it
PoliMi People Care: polimi_peoplecare@insiemesalute.org / welfare@polimi.it