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The European Erasmus+-funded SUSTAIN project (2017-1-NL01-KA201-035284), which involves secondary school students in research on sustainable landscapes, has been awarded the European Innovative Teaching Award 2002 by the European Commission. The consortium involved eleven partners from three countries, including the Polibienestar Research Institute of the University of Valencia. With an interdisciplinary and socio-technical consortium of researchers from the Netherlands, Spain and Cyprus, as well as the European Science Engagement Association (EUSEA), the project has developed teaching

The Polibienestar Research Institute of the Universitat de València attended last week the 7th International Public Health Palliative Care Conference in Bruges, Belgium. This event brought together professionals from academia/research, clinical practice, policy makers and civil society with the aim of sharing best practices and results on the role of palliative and end-of-life care in public health. Ascensión García, from Polibienestar presented the European Horizon 2020 InAdvance project, specifically the results of the multi-centre qualitative

Yesterday the last consortium meeting of the CP-AGEING project took place, where the partners discussed the results achieved and the last steps before the end of the project. The main objective of the CP-AGEING project has been to promote healthy ageing of people with cerebral palsy (CP). To this end, a personalised training programme has been designed for adults with CP and their support persons, focusing on three main areas (physical decline, cognitive decline and

The Research Institute for Social Welfare Policy Research (POLIBIENESTAR) of the University of Valencia (UV) celebrates this September the tenth anniversary of the centre, an anniversary that was to be celebrated in 2020, but whose celebration has been postponed to this month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the period between 2010 and 2022, the centre – in which 61 researchers from the University work – has obtained more than 55 million euros for research

EUVECA is an ERASMUS+ project designed to support the needed innovation and development of the health care sector. It seeks to ensure the provision of future-oriented skills within the sector. This will be done through the creation of Regional Vocational Excellence Hubs in 7 European regions which collaborate within a European Platform for Vocational Excellence in Health Care. Find out all the details of the project that started on 1 June 2022 and will last