Our projects - Fondation Erie

The Erie Foundation supports a wide range of partners who share the same aim: striving for impactful change within the field of mental health. Our aim is to support them in their strategy, organization, future development and synergies.

Workshops of the Erié Foundation

In 2024, the foundation organized its first “Rencontres,” a day bringing together project leaders and scientific experts from its network. The event was dedicated to dialogue and mutual understanding among stakeholders, with the goal of building bridges and cultivating a shared commitment to innovation and excellence in mental health.

In 2025, the foundation launched a new format, the Workshops, to strengthen the capacity for collective action among organizations working to improve the mental health of vulnerable women. This day of collaborative planning helped identify key findings, barriers, and solutions to address this issue, all documented in a summary booklet.

Cinéma à la Folie

Cinéma à la folie is a touring film festival launched in 2025 by the Erié Foundation to change perceptions of mental illness and challenge the stigma attached to it. Through a selection of fiction films and documentaries, the festival presents nuanced, wide-ranging views of what it means to live with mental illness. Every screening is free and open to all, and is followed by a discussion with filmmakers, healthcare professionals, people with lived experience and community organizations. These discussions carry the films beyond the screen, helping audiences understand lived experiences, talk openly, and move past preconceived ideas. After a first edition in eight French cities, Cinéma à la folie returns from late September to late October 2026, touring eight new cities.

More information on the Festival website

The selected projects bring concrete solutions to the key mental health challenges prioritised by the Foundation, namely:

Early access to care, by equipping frontline services to identify needs and act early
Better coordinated care pathways, by piloting a care pathway coordinator role for patients
Stronger recovery support, by structuring and scaling professional peer support
A shift in perceptions, by bringing thoughtful architecture and high quality design into psychiatric care settings

The Erie Foundation supports over a hundred projects
in Europe.

Workshops of the Erié Foundation

Cinéma à la Folie

Implementation of the General Medicine and Psychiatry Project in Department 37

Restructuring and Revitalization of the Mutual Support Groups Network (GEM)

IDEAL

Vox Psy

Tejo

Supporting the Mental Health of Young Caregivers

Find out about the other projects:

Agir Écoute

Alternative to Incarceration through Intensive Case Management and Access to Housing Program

Asterya center for children and youth

Bipo Vite !

Clubhouse

Déclic Emploi

Déclic Habitat

FORPSY : Training, Assessment, and Identification of Psychiatric Disorders

Free, Immediate, Psychological Support Services for Families

Grande cause nationale

IDEAL

Implementation of the General Medicine and Psychiatry Project in Department 37

Kusa

Mental Health Ambassadors

Mobile Team for Eating Disorders (ED)

Optimized Early Intervention for Emerging Mental Health Disorders in Young Adults (IPOPE)

Perinatal outreach teams

Pop&Psy Festival

Prepsy Clic!

Prévention Suicide France

Rehabilitation and Adapted Sports Activities

Respite care, an alternative to hospitalization for young people placed in child welfare

Restructuring and Revitalization of the Mutual Support Groups Network (GEM)

Restructuring the National Teaching Program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Soliguide Santé mentale

Supporting the Mental Health of Young Caregivers

Tejo

The “SESAME” project

Vox Psy