As part of a meeting convened by the Princess of Girona Foundation to share the educational guidelines of the Foundation’s new strategic plan and open up a space for conversation, professors Luis Joaquín García and Lourdes Espinosa presented the objectives and actions that the PROMOBIENESTAR Chair is carrying out in the presence of the President of the Persán Foundation, Concha Yoldi, staff from the Princess of Girona Foundation and those in attendance, including representatives from public and private higher education institutions and the Regional Government of Andalusia.
The PROMOBIENESTAR University Chair for the Promotion of Health and Emotional Well-being among Adolescents and Young People encompasses the dissemination and transfer of its actions to professionals and interest groups. As part of its efforts to achieve its objectives, it held an Outreach and Transfer Day for the health and emotional wellbeing of adolescents and young people. This conference received an excellent response, with more than 150 people registered: 80% identifying as women, 18% as men and 2% as non-binary, with an interdisciplinary profile of attendees with a diversity of more than 10 degrees, international as it has participants from three countries, and intersectoral, with profiles such as jobs in Youth and Education Councils, Women’s Information Centres, Cities Against Drugs Programme, CSSC and ETF Educators, Referral Nurses in Educational Centres, FAMPAs, Secondary and Higher Education Teachers, Emotional Wellbeing Programme, Juvenile Detention Centre, Youth Health Guidance Centre, Punto Forma Joven, Youth Technicians, deputy mayors, youth and student delegates, with broad geographical representation from all the provinces of Andalusia: Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Cádiz, Seville, Huelva, Granada, Málaga, as well as Alicante, Badajoz, Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Madrid, Murcia, Toledo, Valencia, Vitoria, and Zaragoza, making a total of 18 provinces and 9 autonomous communities, in addition to attendees from countries such as Brazil, China, and Argentina.
The Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer, Dr Victoria López, and the Vice-President of the Provincial Council of Jaén, Paqui Medina, opened the presidential table, giving way to the director of the Chair, Dr Luis Joaquín García, who shared the logistics of the day with the audience. The inaugural lecture was given by Dr Lourdes Espinosa (UJA) and was entitled ‘What do you think? What do you know? What do you do? Talking about mental health in adolescents and young people. DIGITAS resources’. This was followed by Round Table 1 – Health and emotional well-being from a holistic, interdisciplinary and intersectoral perspective, which included contributions from: Maria Dolores Ruiz (Jaén Provincial Council). Investing in emotional well-being: a firm commitment to the mental health of young people, Celestina Martínez (Jaén Provincial Council). Discussing mental health among young people in contexts of gender-based violence, Irene Aterido (FELGTBI+): Emotional wellbeing among young people from an LGTBIQA+ and intersectional perspective, and Matilde Fernández (Observatory on Unwanted Loneliness). Loneliness among young people in Spain: some of its causes. Finally, Round Table 2 – Advances and resources available in health and emotional wellbeing for adolescents and young adults was held, with presentations by Dr José Antonio Piqueras (UMH). The role of teachers in the socio-emotional development of students: from teacher training to student wellbeing, Dr. Luis Joaquín García (UJA). Personalised protocols to support emotional wellbeing for adolescents and young adults: PROCARE and PROCORE, Dr. Lourdes Rey (UMA). The Internet and young people: improving emotional education for the use of ICT (MEET) and Marta Ruiz, Ibai Alvarez and Ariadna Toril (Princess of Girona Foundation) with the title ‘Press play and amplify your emotional wellbeing’.
Within the framework of the collaboration between the Princess of Girona Foundation and the PROEMO network and the PROMOBIENESTAR Chair, Professor Luis Joaquín García attended, by personal and non-transferable invitation, representing the aforementioned Network and Chair, the Princess of Girona 2025 Awards ceremony, presided over by Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Asturias and Girona and the Infanta Sofía at the emblematic Liceu Theatre in Barcelona. See the photo gallery.
The ceremony was attended by Salvador Illa, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya; Jordi Hereu, Minister of Industry and Tourism; Carlos Prieto, Government Delegate in Catalonia; Jaume Collboni Cuadrado, Mayor of Barcelona; Francisco Belil, President of the Princess of Girona Foundation; The event was attended by the following members of the Government of Catalonia: Mónica Martínez, Catalan Minister for Social Rights and Inclusion; Nuria Montserrat, Catalan Minister for Research and Universities; Berni Álvarez, Catalan Minister for Sport; Sonia Hernández, Catalan Minister for Culture; Javier Villamayor, Secretary of the Government; Lluïsa Moret, President of Barcelona Provincial Council; and Salvador Alemany, President of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Foundation. Also in attendance were the mayors of Catalonia, David Quirós, Mayor of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, and Xavier Garcia Albiol, Mayor of Badalona; several mayors from the province of Girona; the mayors of Catarroja and Aldaia, from Valencia, and the Mayor of Badajoz, among other authorities and trustees of the Princess of Girona Foundation.
Last January, the Princess of Girona Foundation launched a Special Intervention Plan for young people in Valencia in response to the consequences of the effects of the ARAD to provide support to young people affected, including a health and wellbeing strand. The Princess of Girona Foundation promoted this intervention plan in Valencia with the aim of supporting educational centres, promoting the recovery of purposeful youth entrepreneurship, fostering and protecting emotional well-being and giving a voice to cultural events and projects that contribute to improving the collective state of mind. Along these lines, and together with other collaborators of the Foundation and with Aula Planeta, a Cuaderno de Bienestar was created with the participation of Prf. Luis Joaquín García and Prfa. Lourdes Espinosa for the direction of the PROMOBIENESTAR University Chair. The aim of the invitation of the Foundation was to advise on the creation of a personal workbook and emotional support in the context of support for adolescents and young people who had suffered from DANA. At the Princess of Girona Awards ceremony, a video was shared in which the materials of the Emotional Well-being Workbook, in which the Chair participated in its creation, could be seen. In the voting gallery you can find some clips of its presentation at the awards ceremony.
The University Chair for the Promotion of Health and Emotional Wellbeing of Adolescents and Young People (PROMOBIENESTAR) was born as a result of the collaboration between the University of Jaén and the Provincial Council of Jaén, with the aim of creating a common space for the generation of knowledge, training and innovation aimed at promoting the health and mental wellbeing of adolescents and young people. This initiative responds to an urgent need: to prevent emotional problems in the young population, to promote resilience in the face of adversity, and to reduce the stigma that still persists around mental health: catedrapromobienestar.es
The Princess of Girona Foundation is a private, non-profit foundation aimed at accompanying and training young people in order to improve and promote their professional development, their personal growth and their incorporation into the labour market, so that they can contribute to building a better future for all. HRH The Princess of Asturias and Girona has been the Honorary President of the Princess of Girona Foundation since her father’s proclamation as King on 19 June 2014.
Luis Joaquin Garcia Lopez, director de la Cátedra Universitaria PROMOBIENESTAR, y Sandra Camós, directora de programas educativos de la Fundación Princesa de Girona.
Images of the implementation of the Welfare Notebook with the participation of the PROMOBIENESTAR Chair in the Special Intervention Plan for young people in Valencia.
The song was presented for the first time at the Princess of Girona 2025 Awards Ceremony. It is available on all platforms. By listening to it and sharing it, in addition, the profits generated by the royalties will go to the Valencia plan, with more educational concerts in the schools of Valencia through AmplificARTE, a project of the Foundation that works for education in values and the improvement of emotional wellbeing in the classroom.
Within the space ‘Cuidamos Nuestro Bienestar con MJ’, last May 3rd within season 2 of ‘Bienestar en la Universidad’ of UniRadio, the signing between the president of the Provincial Council and the rector of the university to create the PromoBienestar University Chair was discussed.
In the framework of the transfer of present and future actions of the PROMOBIENESTAR Chair, the interview was given by the First Vice-President of the Provincial Council of Jaén and Deputy for Equality, Social Policies and Youth, Francisca Medina, as well as the Director of the PROMOBIENESTAR Chair, Luis Joaquín García and the co-director of the Chair, Lourdes Espinosa, both professors of the Department of Psychology of the University of Jaén.
In the Salón de Grados of the A3 building in Campus Las Lagunillas, University of Jaén, from 10:00 to 13:30, the training and transfer day was held for professionals of the PIF, ETG and ERACIS programme teams. The event was chaired by the first vice-president of the Diputación de Jaén, Francisca Medina, the director of the PROMOBIENESTAR Chair and head of the PROEMO network, Luis Joaquín García, the co-director of the Chair, Lourdes Espinosa, the deputy for Equality and Youth, María Dolores Ruiz (Diputación Provincial de Jaén) and the deputy director for Equality and Social Welfare in Diputación de Jaén, Celestina Martínez.
The objectives of this conference were to transfer knowledge about the report and roadmap 2025 and the resources of the PROEMO Network based on research and scientific evidence as well as to offer training in evidence-based practical strategies for social services professionals in emotional literacy and in their care for adolescents and young people with (or at risk of) emotional problems. Likewise, the objective was to establish synergies between the Chair and the network of professionals ETF; PIF and ERACIS, and in particular to listen to their training demands on aspects of their interest for the delivery of workshops after the summer.
Within the framework of the activities of the Provincial Council of Jaén, the PROEMO Network and the Promobienestar Chair, the Doctor in Psychology and co-director of this Chair, gave a talk entitled ‘Mental health in adolescents: Where are we and where are we going?’, in the facilities of the Giennense Literary Library of the Provincial Council of Jaén.
In addition to reflecting on mental health in the adolescent population, he presented the Report and Roadmap 2025 to the audience, as well as the PROCARE Programme (Selective Prevention through a transdiagnostic intervention for adolescents at risk of emotional problems) which is currently being carried out for the second consecutive year in the province of Jaén thanks to the support of the Provincial Council of Jaén.
Another of the resources presented was DIGITIASweb, a digital platform aimed at adolescent mental health literacy. In this case, three students from the Degree in Psychology, Nuria Fernández, Laura Bautista and Nerea Luna, presented some of the resources available on the platform along with their assessment as young people. The event ended with the inauguration of the exhibition, in the same facilities of the Library, of Illustrations on Mental Health made by students of the José Nogué School of Art in collaboration with the DIGITAS project. The exhibition can be visited until 19 May.
The event was presided over by Francisca Medina Teva, Deputy Delegate of the Instituto de Estudios Giennenses and Encarnación Medina Arjona, Councillor of the Instituto de Estudios Giennenses.
The Promobienestar Chair, as part of its objectives of dissemination and knowledge transfer, together with the DIGITASweb project, and after approval by the monitoring committee, has developed a campaign on mental health, with a special focus on body image in young people and adolescents and its emotional impact.
The initiative was carried out in two different locations: at the Las Lagunillas Campus of the University of Jaén, during the morning and afternoon of 22 April, and at the Jabalcuz Secondary School in Jaén, on 30 April in the morning.
In both cases, the turnout and participation of both university students, on the one hand, and secondary and high school students, on the other, has been numerous and very satisfactory, as can be seen in the accompanying graphic material.
The aim of the campaign has focused on raising awareness about the importance of mental health care in young people, inviting them to reflect on the role of the perception and assessment of their own body image in emotional well-being and how this is greatly influenced by social networks and the opinion of others. In short, to make students aware of the importance of a healthy relationship with their own bodies, promoting acceptance, self-esteem and critical thinking in the face of the aesthetic canons imposed by society and social networks.
In addition, it has been used to publicise the DIGITAS digital platform led by the University of Jaén and aimed at increasing mental health literacy among adolescents and young people, through the number and variety of resources offered on its website.
This campaign has been carried out under the direction of Lourdes Espinosa, co-director of the Chair, and the involvement of the students of the Psychology Degree of the University of Jaén, Nuria Fernández, Nerea Luna and Laura Ballester, in the activities and in direct contact with the participating young people and adolescents, so that the message transmitted has been ‘one equal or another equal’.
The PROMOBIENESTAR Chair has advised the Princess of Girona Foundation, whose Honorary President is HRH Leonor de Borbón y Ortiz, on the creation of CuidARTE, a wellbeing workbook designed to provide emotional support to young people affected by the storm, together with other collaborators from the Foundation and Editorial Planeta. Through meetings held between January and March 2025, Prof. Luis Joaquín García and Prof. Lourdes Espinosa contributed to the creation of a personal workbook and emotional support in the context of supporting adolescents and young people who had suffered from the storm. The Chair’s involvement has been acknowledged in this material, in the Acknowledgements section. The creation of the materials did not involve any costs for the Chair.
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