ECONCULT participates in the first TEMPERED GLASS project meeting on community resilience

The TEMPERED GLASS project has held its first working meeting at the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy of the Universitat de València, bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team that includes ECONCULT.

The meeting marked the beginning of work on the ontology of the community resilience construct and provided an opportunity to share different perspectives and methodological approaches aimed at generating useful evidence for decision-making.

TEMPERED GLASS aims to develop a comprehensive, evidence-based protocol for measuring and monitoring community resilience from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. The project addresses the limitations of many existing tools, particularly regarding the integration of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, multidimensionality, cross-sectional and longitudinal applicability, and cross-cultural validity.

The proposal includes the development of an innovative instrument combining qualitative and quantitative indicators, with strong psychometric properties and applicability both in crisis situations and in periods of stability. The protocol will be supported by the analysis of national and international datasets, advanced statistical models, and the development of a digital application available in Spanish and English.

The meeting provided an opportunity to bring together approaches from different disciplines in order to advance the conceptualisation of community resilience and define a shared framework for the project. The ultimate aim is for the tools developed not only to improve the measurement of this phenomenon, but also to help guide interventions and public policies on the basis of stronger evidence.

Representing ECONCULT, Jordi Sanjuán, Pau Rausell and Francesc Felipe attended the meeting and contributed to the exchange of perspectives and methodological approaches concerning the concept of community resilience and its application to evidence-based decision-making.

The project expects that strengthening community resilience will help reduce phenomena such as loneliness, fragility and emotional exhaustion, while promoting social participation, psychological capital, emotional management and overall well-being. The proposal also incorporates criteria related to inclusion, accessibility and the reduction of cultural and gender bias.

This first meeting also brought together researchers linked to ARMAQoL and other international institutions, including Amparo Oliver, Naoki Kondo, Ester Villalonga Olives and Yusuf Ransome, alongside other members of the project team.

The international dimension is one of the key pillars of TEMPERED GLASS. The team maintains collaborations with specialists from the United States, Japan and different European countries, with the aim of supporting the international dissemination and application of the instrument and exploring its possible future incorporation into major longitudinal studies such as SHARE, MIDUS, HRS and JAGES.

With this first meeting, TEMPERED GLASS begins its collaborative work towards building a rigorous and applicable scientific framework to better understand community resilience and develop useful tools for the design and evaluation of evidence-based interventions.