Podcast: Maike Luhmann on loneliness and mental health
Maike Luhmann explains why loneliness is not a mental illness and why it can still be dangerous.
Podcast: Loneliness concerns us all, Maike Luhmann on Rebellisch gesund
Maike Luhmann explains how loneliness arises, how it affects trust and social cohesion, and what protects people against it.
Country visit Spain: shorter loneliness protocols for Aragón
Practitioners in Aragón told us that long loneliness protocols are hard to use, and that they need a short, practical guide.
Country visit Sweden: funding projects that work together
Our online country visit to Sweden raised the question of whether loneliness funding should reward collaboration between projects.
Country visit Netherlands: getting loneliness work into schools
Our online country visit to the Netherlands asked how organisations working on loneliness can get into schools.
Mapping 2,720 ways to measure social connection
A LONELY-EU review of more than 80,000 articles finds that measures of social connection and loneliness vary widely and rarely overlap.
Help shape how Europe measures loneliness
We invite people across the EU to help decide which of 57 candidate categories belong in the new EU Social Isolation and Loneliness Index.
Podcast: Understanding and overcoming loneliness, with Maike Luhmann
Drawing on 15 years of research, Maike Luhmann discusses when loneliness becomes harmful and what people and society can do about it.
Milan event links loneliness research to policy
The Italian LONELY-EU partners brought policymakers, researchers, and third-sector organisations together in Milan to discuss loneliness as a social challenge.
Photo: AWK NRW/Engel-Albustin
Maike Luhmann gives keynote at loneliness symposium in Düsseldorf
At a symposium of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, LONELY-EU coordinator Maike Luhmann explained why loneliness concerns us all.