Ronny Bruffaerts (principal investigator) is professor at the Department of Neuroscience, KU Leuven, and head of the Centre for Public Mental Health at the University Psychiatric Centre, KU Leuven. With more than 20 years of research experience on determinants of mental health at the general and student population level, he is the founder of the WHO initiative World Mental Health International College Student (WHM-ICS), which generates accurate epidemiological data on student mental health worldwide.

Maarten Vansteenkiste is professor of developmental and motivational psychology in the Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology at Ghent University. His research is situated at the interface between developmental and motivational psychology and starts from the question of 'why people do what they do'. Inspired by Self-Determination Theory, he investigates the motivational role that parents, teachers, tutors, supervisors and social workers can play in fostering young people's motivation and growth. During the corona crisis, he monitored the well-being and motivation of the Flemish population through 'the motivation barometer'.

Valérie Van Hees is coordinator of the Support Centre for Inclusive Higher Education (SIHO). At SIHO, she forms a daily bridge between policy and practice and is a contact point for both the Flemish government and higher education institutions in the domain of mental health and inclusive higher education. With more than two decades of experience in the field of policy and inclusion, she is also the project leader of several Flemish and European projects involving the development of policy reports, guidelines and training packages on inclusion and mental well-being. The SIHO is responsible for following up and deepening specific action points from the Monitor for both policy and practice that translate to the macro, meso and micro levels.