Collaboration Call: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-02

Working Title

DIGI-RESTORE-U – Multimodal Early Risk Detection and Stepped Rehabilitation for Harmful Digital Technology Use in University Students

2. Project Vision

DIGI-RESTORE-U seeks to develop and validate an innovative framework for the early identification and management of harmful digital technology use among university students, with a particular focus on its mental health, psychosocial and academic consequences.

5. Types of Partners Sought

We are currently looking for partners and/or a potential co-coordinator with strong expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Digital mental health

• Youth / student mental health

• Clinical psychology, psychiatry or psychosocial intervention

• Behavioral addiction / problematic smartphone, gaming or social media use

• Digital phenotyping / multimodal risk assessment

• Explainable AI / human-centered decision support

• Sleep, stress and psychophysiological monitoring

• Implementation science / hybrid effectiveness-implementation research

• Campus well-being systems / student counselling services

• Ethics, GDPR, legal compliance and responsible data governance

• Health technology / digital platform development

• Youth participation, co-design and community engagement

6. What We Expect from Partners

At consortium-building stage, we are looking for partners who can contribute in a meaningful and clearly defined way to the scientific and implementation logic of the proposal. Depending on profile, expected contributions may include:

• Scientific input into concept refinement and work package design;

• Leadership or co-leadership of thematic work packages or tasks;

• Access to relevant target populations and campus ecosystems;

• Contribution to methodology, data collection or validation activities;

• Support for intervention design, testing and implementation planning;

• Technical contribution to digital tools, data architecture or analytics components;

• Support on ethics, patient/student safeguards, fairness and governance;

• Participation in dissemination, policy translation and sustainability planning.

For a potential co-coordinator, we would particularly welcome an institution with strong Horizon Europe experience and recognized expertise in digital mental health / youth mental health / implementation-oriented health innovation.