"The project ""Health Literacy Progress for Men in Europe"" ( HelpMen) addressed the question how men can be better achieved by health literacy and actively improve it. In the whole field of health education and promotion, men are strongly underrepresented. In addition, there is hardly any differentiation between offers for men with lower educational chances, so that disadvantaged or migrant men are not explicitly in sight. This entails the risk that health and social disadvantages will solidify, as people with a high need for basic education often also have health problems and are less well informed of their health. Health is therefore an essential equality issue for men. Objectives of the projectThe guiding principle of the HelpMen project was to reach men better with basic health education and by taking part in a participatory context so that access disadvantages are eliminated. This was intended to enable them to reflect their health situation and, if possible, to improve it and to adopt basic health competences. In order to achieve this, 20 pilot projects were carried out and also multipliers were sensitized, qualified and equipped with a curriculum that can be transferred into their own practice. The HelpMen pilot projects covered a wide range of educational areas and settings, six of them were explicitly related to migration and flight. HelpMen created a broad knowledge for specialists and educational organizations on the health-related basic education of men. This will enable to sustainably strengthen men's health competencies. A central result was the jointly developed curriculum and the publication of the entire project results in book and brochure form. Through the project, a crystallization core was created for European networking in men's health (basic) education. Potential long-term benefitsThe project provided an impetus to include health as a subject of basic education, to discuss this in a gender-differentiated way, and to develop it in a ""masculine"" manner. The integration of health aspects into the canon of basic education will improve the health prerequisites for social participation, particularly for educationally disadvantaged people and for the benefit of health competences."