Stress resilience and mental health are central issues while conducting a long-term project like a doctorate - crisis and challenges are normal during this process. Apart from workshop offers of Dahlem Research School and the Berlin University Alliance to strengthen your persistence and succesfully deal with such challenges furher information and advice is availabe:

• *new* Mental Wellbeing Project and support.points:
  

  The Mental Wellbeing Project is an initiative of the Center for Academic Advising and Psychological Counseling in cooperation with the departments to build a psychosocial support network on campus. The aim is to promote mental health at the FU Berlin. To this end, support.points were set up at the departments as the first point of contact for students, doctoral candidates and employees to support them with problems in their everyday studies and work.
  We will also implement events that address the needs and wishes of students at the departments. Information on recommended online tools and information materials complete the offer. For further information, please consult the German website of the project, the English version is still under construction.
  The project team welcomes any inquiries, comments or ideas. Contact the project via mail or contact the  support.points staff directly.
  Please find further information on support.points at Freie Universität here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/mentalwellbeing/Support_Points/index.html.

• The psychological counseling at Freie Universität offers individual advice, training and workshop

The staff consists of licenzed psychological psychotherapists and psychologists in training to become psychotherapists. As a matter of course, the psychologists of the counseling service are required to maintain confidentiality regarding the matters you discuss with them.

• Freie Universität Berlin offers individual counseling, training courses, and workshops. The staff members are licensed psychological psychotherapists or graduate psychologists in training to become psychological psychotherapists. The psychologists are bound by professional secrecy and will of course treat your concerns confidentially..

• Berlin Institute of Health: Supporting Mental Health During Pandemics

Guides for for promoting the mental health of early career researchers (ECRs) written for PIs and supervisors, and for ECRs themselves by the Quest Center for Responsible Research and its community partners.

• Einstein Foundation: ScholarMinds

Self-organizes initiative of doctoral students at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin who share resources, survey the status quo and organize mental health events to promote awareness and destigmatize mental health struggles.

Growing up in Science Berlin: talk series "Growing up in Science"

• Studierendenwerk Berlin:

The Studierendenwerk counsels on financing studies, studying with children, provides counselling on academic writing, provides psychological counselling, is a contractual partner for the KfW student loan and supports studying with special needs.