ESCAP webinars for healthcare professionals in Ukraine 2024-2025, 2025-2026 & 2026-2027
ESCAP is holding a series of webinars for healthcare professionals in Ukraine. The webinars are attended by >600 participants live online with more watching the recordings afterwards. Participants include not only child and adolescent psychiatrists, but also family doctors, paediatricians, adult psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers - a very broad, mixed field. The series of webinars is organized in collaboration with the Mental Health Coordination Center of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, UNICEF Ukraine and the German Trauma Foundation. The project is being implemented within the framework of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Programme ‘How are you?’, an initiative of First Lady Olena Zelenska. Presentations are simultaneously translated into Ukrainian. Click below for the English recordings. We would like to thank all our speakers who are part of this important project!
We are delighted to continue our webinars in 2026-2027 following the continously very positive feedback and high attendance we have had, also during our second series.
The 2025 Charlemagne Prize winner, Dr Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Commission), and the Charlemagne Prize are awarding €500,276.25 to the German Trauma Foundation. The award recognises its outstanding commitment to improving trauma care and protecting the mental health of children and young people – both nationally and internationally in education, research and networking. Part of the prize money will go towards supporting our webinar series. We are delighted and very grateful for the generous support from President von der Leyen and the Charlemagne Prize!
Letter of thanks from the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Letter of thanks from UNICEF Ukraine
Letter of thanks from the National Health Service of Ukraine NHSU
Letter of thanks from the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine
Professor Jörg M. Fegert was invited to present an update on the projects supported by the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation at the Karlspreis-Europa-Forum which took place on 13 May 2026 in Aachen. Read his speech here.
Brief Report: Webinars about child and adolescent psychiatry can support professionals in war-affected regions: lessons from the ESCAP-Ukraine webinar initiative published in our ECAP Journal (04.08.2026)
2024-2025:
- Professor Jörg M. Fegert, University Hospital Ulm/Germany & ESCAP President: Development of child and adolescent psychiatry in Western countries
- Professor Dennis Ougrin, King’s College London/UK: Therapeutic Assessment for Young People with Self-Harm (in Ukrainian only)
- Professor Andrea Danese, King’s College London/UK & ESCAP General Secretary: Trauma/PTSD
- Professor Paul Plener, Medical University Vienna/Austria: Self-harm: assessment, acute care and treatment
- Dr. Anne Marie Råberg Christensen, ESCAP Board Member & Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Center, Glostrup, Denmark and Dr. Anna Kovalova, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Center, Glostrup, Denmark: Psychiatric emergency care for children and adolescents
- Professor Sven Bølte, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm/Sweden: Autism in clinic, research and society: yesterday, today, tomorrow
- Professor Tobias Banaschweski, Zentralinstitut für seelische Gesundheit (Central Institute for Mental Health), Mannheim/Germany: ADHD (currently only available in Ukrainian due to a technical issue)
- Professor Benedetto Vitiello, University of Turin/Italy: Pharmacotherapy for Anxiety and Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Professor Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, University Hospital Aachen/Germany: Childhood and adolescent Anorexia nervosa: new insights in diagnostics and treatment
- Professor Christoph Correll, Charité Berlin/Germany: Efficacy and tolerability of antipsychotics in youth with severe mental disorders
- Professor Katrin Skala, University Hospital Vienna/Austria: Adolescent Substance Use
- Priv.-Doz. Kerstin Paschke, University Hospital Hamburg/Germany: Gaming Disorder in childhood and adolescence – from etiology to therapy
- Professor Jörg M. Fegert, ESCAP President & University Hospital Ulm/Germany: Child protection and non-violent parenting
2025-2026:
- Professor Stephan Eliez, Geneva University School of Medicine and Director of the Fondation Pôle Autisme, Geneva/Switzerland: Psychopharmacology of Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adolescents
- Professor Carmen Schröder, Strasbourg University/France: Sleep disorders
- Professor Pieter J. Hoekstra, University of Groningen/The Netherlands: Tic disorders: an update on etiology and treatment
- Professor Andrea Danese, King’s College London/UK: PTSD
- Professor Manon Hillegers, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam/The Netherlands: Mood Disorders
- Professor Florence Askenazy, Nice Pediatric Hospitals, Nice/France: Research program 14-7, 10 years of clinical research and experience in pediatric PTSD following mass trauma
- Professor Dimitris C. Anagnostopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/Greece: Psychoanalytical approach to trauma
- Professor Antonio M. Persico, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia/Italy: The pharmacotherapy of Autism Spectrum Disorder in children, adolescents and adults
- Professor Elisa Pfeiffer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Ulm University/Germany: Evidence-based Trauma-Focused Treatment for Children and Adolescents
- Dr. Jennifer Hall, WHO Athens Quality of Care Office & Professor Robert Vermeiren, Leiden University/The Netherlands: The implementation of Quality Standards for Child and Youth Mental Health Services across the WHO European Region
- Tom L Osborn, Shamiri, Nairobi/Kenya: Stepped Care Model
- Professor Carmen Moreno, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain: Early-Onset Psychosis: An Update on Clinical and Treatment Aspects
2026-2027
- Professor Dr. med. Eva Möhler, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Germany: START and START-Kids: Stress-Arousal-Regulation - Training for Children and Adolescents
- Sofia Markina, krisenchat Ukraine, Germany: Free and confidential online psychological support service for Ukrainians affected by the war – presentation in Ukrainian
- Dr. med. Oliver Bilke-Hentsch, Luzerner Psychiatry, Luzern/Switzerland: Transition between Biology, Society and Family
- Professor Alexis Revet, Toulouse University/France: Grief
- Professor Dr. Dr. Christian Bachmann, Children Hospital Wilhelmstift in Hamburg & University Hospital Ulm/Germany: Supporting children in foster care
- Professor Argyris Stringaris, University College London/UK: Emotion (dys-)regulation
- Professor Dr. Isabel Böge, Medical University Graz/Austria: Bright Red Stream – Recognition, Diagnosis and Treatment of Self-Harm in Youth
- Professor Andrés Martin, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven/USA: From stigma to inclusion: the power of belonging (once again)
- Dr. Maria Melchior, INSERM Paris/France: Addictive behaviours: recent trends and future directions
- Professor Susanne Walitza, Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich/Switzerland: SwissMentalHealth4Ukraine
- Professor Andrea Danese, King’s College London/UK: Enhancing Specialised Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents in Ukraine
- Professor Jörg M. Fegert, Ulm University Medical Center/Germany & President of ESCAP: Collegial Support in Times of War and Crisis
Please note that the introductions in the beginning of the videos are in Ukrainian, the presentations are then in English.
YouTube recording in Ukrainian
Facebook of the Cabinet Coordination Centre for Mental Health UA in Ukrainian
