Twelve UAB research projects have been selected by AGAUR in a second call for the development of projects with social impacts. The projects must take on challenges related to mental health and emotional wellbeing at universities and other entities of the research and innovation system.
The selected projects cover disciplines such as clinical and health psychology, veterinary medicine, physics, nursing, social psychology, and anthropology, and will address different subjects of study. The aim is to obtain data and provide solutions for the emotional wellbeing of all members of the university community, which in turn can be extrapolated and sustained over time. The total amount obtained to conduct these studies is €220,000.
All selected studies will be carried out in coordination between the research groups involved, with the collaboration of the UAB's CORE in Mental Health network and the Equality and Diversity Service. The main project will be carried out by the Equality and Diversity Service, under the title "Recursos per a la promoció del benestar emocional i l'autocura per a la comunitat de la UAB: sensibilització, punts blaus i grups d'ajuda mútua" [Resources for promoting emotional wellbeing and self-care for the UAB community: awareness-raising, blue points, and mutual support groups]. The project includes a coordination hub for all mental health-related activities on campus.
The other selected studies are:
- Art i benestar a la universitat: avaluació de l'impacte d'una experiència artística comunitària interuniversitària en el benestar personal i social de persones treballadores a la universitat (coordinated by Laia Viladot and Laia Serra).
- Resilient Vet: fomentant benestar i resiliència en la comunitat veterinària de la UAB (directed by Manel López Béjar).
- ARISE. Healing by Connecting (coordinated by Hugo Valenzuela; study focused on students of the bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology).
- El Refugi: espai itinerant per promoure la salut mental i la prevenció del suïcidi en la comunitat universitària (directed by Estel Gelabert and Susana Subirà).
- Vides digitalitzades, intel·ligència artificial i salut mental: eines per a la sobirania de la salut mental digital de l'estudiantat universitari des la perspectiva de gènere interseccional (directed by Lídia Arroyo).
- PASaMCoR: primers auxilis en salut mental per una comunitat més resilient. Integrant la salut mental en l'ecosistema d'R+D+I (coordinated by Joan Deus and Andrés Chamarro).
- UniDiversa: construint una universitat inclusiva (directed by Marisela Montenegro).
- Impacte del tret de sensibilitat psicològica a l'ambient psicososocial en el continu de la salut mental: desenvolupament de mesures d'avaluació i recursos psicoeducatius (coordinated by Neus Vidal and Pilar Torrico).
- SOLUNI. Impacte de la solitud no volguda en joves universitaris: anàlisi i abordatge (directed by Ana Barajas).
- Clubs de ciències a la UAB: fomentant el benestar emocional i la salut mental promovent el sentiment de pertinença, l'acompanyament entre iguals i la recerca compromesa socialment entre alumnat i professorat STEM (coordinated by Pere Masjuan).
- Xarxes amb sentit: promoció del benestar emocional amb l'ús crític i saludable de l'entorn digital a la universitat (coordinated by Carolina Watson).
The projects include the collaboration of local organisations such as ActivaMent, ObertaMent, Cáritas, the Catalan Association for Suicide Prevention (ACPS), the Galatea Foundation, the Council of Veterinary Associations of Catalonia, the Les Corts Mental Health Association, Sindillar, the Bayt al-Thaqafa Private Foundation, the Hestia Foundation, and the L'ARC Foundation.
