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Welfare systems in Europe have facilitated great economic prosperity and good social cohesion since the Second World War. However, demographic changes, economic crises, the coronavirus pandemic... have had a major impact on the complex balance of welfare systems, including questioning their long-term sustainability.
Research and innovation are necessary resources to restore and consolidate the sustainability of systems. From the focus and dedication on issues such as education, health, employment... fundamental and innovative results can be obtained to ensure that welfare systems last. Likewise, these results must be transferred to politics in the form of social policies that are of great relevance to the populations they serve.
Brief CV
Jordi Garcés Ferrer is a full professor at the University of Valencia and director of the Research Institute on Social Welfare Policy of the University of Valencia (Polibienestar). In addition, Professor Garcés has held the Prince of Asturias Chair at Georgetown University in Washington DC (USA) and has been a professor at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (Netherlands) and visiting researcher at the University of Washington, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He has been main researcher or member of the research team of nearly 100 projects and research contracts with central, regional and European administration.
Tamara Alhambra Borrás she has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Valencia, and has been a researcher at the Research Institute on Social Welfare Policy – POLIBIENESTAR – since 2014. As part of her research activity, she has participated in different research projects funded by the European Commission, which are focused on promoting health and improving the quality of life of specific populations, such as: the elderly, the chronically ill, cancer patients, etc. In addition, Tamara has international experience developing health promotion projects in India and South Africa.
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- Ciència emergent - Tamara Alhambra
- Research Group on Social Welfare Policy
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- Polibenestar analyses the European child protection systems in the NOPUNISH congress
- Polibienestar participates in DISH, a European project to improve the digital skills on health personnel
- Polibienestar analyses the psichosocial impact of infertility in heterosexual couples
- Polibenestar disesigns an assessment instrument to facilitate the adoption of care integrated in health systems
- The Emerging Science dissemination project shows the yougest research at de Polibienestar Institute
- The University of Valencia, the Polytechnic University of Valencia and La Fe Hospital improve the digital skills of healthcare personnel
- Geolocation on recipients of benefits, a tool to analyse patterns of socio-spatial inequality in small cities
- Polibienestar creates an educational program to train social adn health personnel who work with refugee and migrant children
- The POLIBIENESTAR Institute celebrates its tenth anniversary with more than 55 million euros raised for research
A study proposes increasing social policies to make the Mediterranean welfare model sustainable
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Stimulating scientific vocations is a project of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia, which has co-funding from the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
