Nomi+ is an app and web platform that aims to help students cope with stress. It is based on the problem that 49% of all students experience mental stress during their study and only 3% approach professional help. Reasons for this are insufficient awareness of stress symptoms and students' own mental health, unclarity and ignorance of how to handle stress and lastly, because the barrier to ask for help is high. In fact, mental problems because of stress are a big taboo among students.
With Nomi+, we want to lower this barrier for students in 3 steps: Informing students about stress, making them aware about their own situation and what they can do about it and helping them to find appropriate help. These are all integrated in a mobile application which contains i.a. short quizzes to raise awareness, a self-help guide and a list of professional help channels. This will all be offered in collaboration with all higher educational institutions in the Netherlands.

The concept of Nomi+ was developed during the EduChallenge 2016 in Utrecht, a 2,5-day long competition, in which students from all over the Netherlands work in teams to develop innovative technology-related concepts for higher education. With Nomi+, we won all prizes of the EduChallenge 2016: the pitch prize, audience prize and jury prize. At the moment, we are working on realising our concept.