Fighting stigma of mental illness in midsize European countries Alina BeldieJohan A. den BoerCecilia BrainEric ConstantMaria Luisa FigueiraIgor Filipcic • Benoit GillainMiro JakovljevicMarek JaremaDaniela JelenovaOguz Karamustafalioglu • Blanka Kores PlesnicarAndrea KovacsovaKlara LatalovaJosef MarksteinerFilipa Palha • Jan PecenakJan PraskoDan PrelipceanuPetter Andreas RingenNorman Sartorius • Erich SeifritzJaromir SvestkaMagdalena TyszkowskaJohannes Wancata

Purpose Stigma is the most powerful obstacle to the development of mental health care. Numerous activities aiming to reduce the stigma of mental illness and the consequent negative discrimination of the mentally ill and their families have been conducted in Europe. Descriptions of many of these activities are not easily available, either because there are no publications that describe them, or because descriptions exist only in local languages. This supplement aims to help in overcoming this imbalance by providing a description of anti-stigma activities in 14 countries in Europe regardless of the language in which they were published and regardless whether they were previously published. Methods The review was undertaken by experts who were invited to describe anti-stigma activities in the