In 2025, the Mental Health Flagship team at the WHO Regional Office for Europe continued to support countries in strengthening their mental health systems, with action across policy, services, data and stigma reduction. This was the final year of the European Framework for Action on Mental Health (2021–2025), which the WHO Regional Office for Europe worked to implement through a wide range of technical, policy and capacity-building activities across the Region. The Pan-European Mental Health Coalition also played an important role in offering technical expertise in knowledge sharing across countries. This work was made possible through two major contribution agreements with the European Commission: the European Union (EU)-funded projects “Addressing mental health challenges in the EU, Iceland and Norway and Supporting health resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries”. These initiatives assisted countries in implementing evidence-based policies, strengthening health systems, upholding human rights, and protecting the mental health of health and care workers. Additional support was provided by the Government of Greece through its funding for the European Programme on the Quality of Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents; this facilitated the development of technical documents and expert dialogues between countries.