Meeting between the main responsible of this project for the promotion of emotional well-being in young people and part of the Malaga team, co-leaders of DAREMOS, to share future collaboration and knowledge transfer formulas.
6/02/2023.- Luis Joaquín García, Professor of Psychology at the University of Jaén (UJA), met on January 26 and 27 with part of the team of the Genomics Unit of the Institute of Biomedical Research (IBIMA) to take stock of the DAREMOS initiative (Detection of Adolescents at high risk of EMOtional problems: exploring the role of epigenetics and language for prevention indicated in mental health).
In these working meetings, the UJA researcher and the Malaga researchers, who have co-led this project for the promotion of emotional well-being in young people, shared different formulas for collaboration and knowledge transfer based on the results obtained in the implementation of the DAREMOS initiative.
Thanks to DAREMOS, more than 400 schoolchildren at risk of suffering emotional problems and their families have been helped. In this regard, Luis Joaquín García highlighted “the success of DAREMOS in improving the detection of adolescents at high risk of developing emotional problems such as anxiety or depression with the support of disciplines such as corpus linguistics, computer science or epigenetics”.
The DAREMOS initiative is a project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Andalusian Regional Government and the participation of UJA researchers Luis Joaquín García, Lourdes Espinosa and Belén Diez and researchers from the Genomics Unit of the Institute of Biomedical Research of Malaga (IBIMA), Juan Miguel Gómez and María Jesús Pinto, in collaboration with Yotta, spin off of the UJA.
In addition, the Youth Institute (INJUVE) attached to the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, the Spanish Association of Mutual Help against Social Phobia and Anxiety Disorders (AMTAES), the Confederation of Organizations of Psychopedagogy and Guidance of Spain (COPOE), and the Youth Council of Spain (CJE) are part of the External Advisory Board of the project.
