Presentation of the Promobienstar University Chair at the Fair of the Towns of the Province of Jaén.
The presentation took place on 20 March at the University of Jaén’s stand; the event was organised by the University’s Vice-Rectorate for Territorial Development and Institutional Relations.
The event began with an opening address and welcome from Mr Alberto del Real Alcalá, Vice-Chancellor for Regional Development and Institutional Relations at the University of Jaén, who emphasised the importance of bringing academic and scientific activities focused on regional development closer to the public, in order to reinforce the institution’s commitment to the province’s development.
The presentation of the Chair began with remarks from Lourdes Espinosa Fernández, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA) and co-director of the Chair, and María Dolores Ruiz Sánchez, the Provincial Council’s Councillor for Equality and Youth and a member of the Chair’s Monitoring Committee, who outlined the main activities carried out as part of this initiative. Next, researchers from the University of Jaén, Mireia Servián López and David Jiménez Vázquez, outlined the preventive mental health interventions being carried out under the auspices of the Chair, such as PROCARE and PROCORE. Finally, María de la Villa Carpio Fernández, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Jaén, focused her presentation on addressing unwanted loneliness, a growing social problem in our time affecting various groups and requiring attention from society.
