Different entities and institutions at European, national and regional level will collaborate in this consortium led by the University of Jaén (UJA).
19/07/2023.- The Network of Excellence for the promotion of adolescent health and EMOtional well-being (PROEMO), led by the University of Jaén (UJA), has set up its External Advisory Board, in which different entities at European, national and regional level will participate.
Specifically, a total of nine institutions have confirmed their participation in the network’s External Advisory Council: the Spanish Youth Institute (INJUVE), attached to the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, the Spanish Youth Council (CJE), the European Youth Information and Counselling Agency (ERYICA), the Princess of Girona Foundation (FPdGi), the Integral Health group of the FELGTBI+, the Confederación de Organizaciones de Psicopedagogía y Orientación de España (COPOE), the Asociación Española de Ayuda Mutua contra Fobia Social y Trastornos de Ansiedad (Amtaes), the Asociación Andaluza de Técnicos de Juventud (AATJ) or the Asociación Asturiana para la atención y el cuidado de la infancia (Asaci).
PROEMO is a consortium that seeks that several Spanish researchers join forces to promote the health and emotional well-being of adolescents. To this end, its main objective is the development of a report and roadmap for 2025, aimed at detecting current gaps and providing recommendations for the promotion of adolescent health and emotional well-being, based on the strategic document “Report and Roadmap on the current state, needs and recommendations for the improvement of psychological assessment and the promotion of health and emotional well-being in young people”, carried out by the PROEM Network in 2018.
The PROEMO research team is made up of researchers from different public and private universities, led by the Professor of Psychology at UJA, Luis Joaquín García. Along with him, Josefa Canals, professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona (URV), the professor of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), José Antonio Piqueras, José Antonio Piqueras, the professor at the University of Almeria (UAL), Inmaculada Gómez, the professor at the University of Deusto, Esther Calvete, the researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Manuel Gámez, and the researcher at the University of Malaga and IBIMA-Bionand, Patricia Moreno.
The main objective of PROEMO is “to update the 2018 report and roadmap on the state of mental health and emotional well-being of young people, which will provide information on anxiety and depression problems in young people and the short- and long-term needs of adolescents with (or at risk of suffering) emotional problems to them, their families, mental health organizations, legislators and other interest groups such as the education and health sectors,” says Luis Joaquín García.
The work of the PROEMO Network of Excellence (RED2022-134247-T) started last June 1 and will last for two years. It is funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the State Research Agency (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) through the State Program to promote scientific and technical research and its transfer, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research 2021-2023.
