Started: Jan 2025
End: December 2028
PUREMIND is an international research and innovation project focused on improving mental health prevention, monitoring, and intervention for children, adolescents, and young adults aged 5–25. The project aims to develop a secure, personalised digital platform that combines behavioural, environmental, physiological, and clinical data to support early identification and management of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and ASD. Its objectives include delivering home monitoring tools, neurofeedback interventions, predictive models, and research-ready data ecosystems to support clinicians and researchers. The consortium involves partners across the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Romania, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia, including universities, healthcare institutions, clinical researchers, and technology organisations.
Over the past year, significant progress has been achieved within the PUREMIND programme, establishing the technical, operational, and governance foundations required to support large-scale clinical studies across multiple international sites. The programme successfully delivered a fully developed ICT (Information and Communication Technology) platform designed to support personalised mental health monitoring, intervention, and research for children, adolescents, and young adults aged 5–25.
Key achievements include Microlinks involvement in successful development of the MindMe Home Monitoring Application across both Android and iOS platforms. The application enables secure collection of behavioural, environmental, sleep, and mental health assessment data, while supporting automated questionnaire scheduling, multilingual capability, and participant engagement workflows. Integration with the Central Repository has been completed, with the platform now entering final end-to-end testing.
In parallel, the NeuCalm Neurofeedback Intervention Application was developed to support EEG-based neurofeedback interventions through wearable sensor integration, Bluetooth connectivity, and secure FHIR-based data transmission. The platform architecture has been built with a strong privacy-first approach, ensuring GDPR compliance, pseudonymisation, role-based access controls, and secure governance processes.
The third application is a Gaming App for Intervention in Autism at Home, designed as a serious gaming platform to support children with autism in developing essential social and communication skills within a home environment. Through engaging and interactive games, children are encouraged to imitate actions, gestures, and sounds while also learning to share focus and respond to visual and social cues. These activities aim to enhance communication, interaction, attention, and overall social engagement skills. The development work for this application is scheduled to begin soon.
The programme has now advanced ethical approvals, deployment readiness, security validation, and multi-site operational planning across Europe and international partner locations. Collectively, these achievements position PUREMIND WP1 as operationally mature and strategically ready for pilot deployment and clinical execution.
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