Projects
We work in a project-based approach to address health promotion challenges, as well as challenges related to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
The Living Lab works in the following innovation networks that address two broad categories of challenges:
Prevention, diagnostic, and therapeutic challenges
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Long COVID programme. Promotion of more collaborative and integral healthcare and R&I in the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, IrsiCaixa, Fight Infections Foundation, and Barcelona Northern Metropolitan Area.
Health promotion challenges
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Alison Innovation Network. Promotion of healthy and sustainable food in neighborhoods of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona with the support of the FoodClic, FOSTER, and CLEVERFOOD projects. First pilot with more than 25 organizations with the EC funded project Fit4Food2030 and the Barcelona CaixaResearch Living Lab.
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Sentinel Schools Network promoted by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia. Promotion of a more integrated model of prevention and health promotion in schools; collaboration with the European Commission-funded CONNECT project to promote the Open Schooling Movement, development of methodological guidelines to empower students to become change agents in promoting collective impacts. Two pilots implemented with 6 and 17 schools on COVID-19 prevention and mental health.
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STEAMXChange (EduCaixa programme, promoted by the “la Caixa” Foundation). Development of methodological guidelines and multimedia educational resources to empower students to become change agents using participatory research methodologies that are implemented with the community through system approaches. Health challenges: responsible eating habits, vaccination and mental health. Health challenges: virtual experiments, videos, experiment protocols, and debate games, among others.
