SWe will keep you updated on our activities and scientific studies Co-creation project to offer two dozen workshops in municipal public libraries throughout Barcelona province The second edition of BiblioLab Science – Healthy City is now underway with the goal of getting everyday people involved in science in order to generate healthier city models This co-creation and community participation project is coordinated by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and supported by the ”la Caixa” Foundation and the Network of Municipal Libraries of Barcelona Province “The fundamental objective of this initiative is to raise awareness about the negative effects of air pollution on health and promote actions that get people involved in science in order to improve the environmental quality of urban areas,” commented Raül Toran Science Outreach Coordinator at ISGlobal and one of the organisers of the project BiblioLab Science – Healthy City will organise 24 workshops in municipal public libraries throughout Barcelona province: Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta Library in Nou Barris (Barcelona) Can Peixauet Library in Santa Coloma de Gramenet Josep Janés Library in Hospitalet de Llobregat Joan Triadú Library in Vic and Jordi Rubió i Balaguer Library in Sant Boi de Llobregat The project will promote social empowerment through scientific knowledge about issues that affect urban health: active mobility “This is a living project designed to address the needs and concerns of local groups while fostering a critical spirit to develop healthier towns and cities through community participation,” commented Celia Santos Workshop attendees will receive training in urban health and learn to take measurements of noise and air pollution using Smart Citizen Kits which contain various sensors for measuring noise and suspended particulate matter Attendees will also help to generate new ideas and models of sustainable cities and mobility by exploring problems that affect their own neighbourhoods with the goal of conveying the community’s viewpoints to the municipal government bodies involved in organising the workshops and recruiting participants Click here for a list of workshop dates and venues Our website www.isglobal.org (the "Website") uses cookies to collect information on how the Website is used A cookie is a file downloaded onto your machine (computer or mobile device) for storing data that may be updated and retrieved by the entity that installed it The information collected via cookies may include the date and time you visited the website the time you spent on our website and the websites you visited before and after visiting our site We use cookies to facilitate your browsing of our Website provide you a better use experience and identify problems with our Website we will use cookies to obtain information on your preferences and tailor our Website to your interests The purpose of this cookies policy is to provide you with clear and precise information on the cookies used on our Website (the "Cookies Policy"). 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our advertising partners They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device you will experience less targeted advertising The four area units now operative provide service for 90,000 people The Vila Veïna pilot project started in October in four city neighbourhoods with the roll-out of a new care model based on proximity This pioneering municipal initiative means teams of specialised professionals people who receive care and members of the community form part of a network which is jointly responsible for collective welfare The offices already in operation provide access to care resources and offer free community activities to strengthen mutual support networks The activities offered by the four facilities are aimed at carers families and local people who take part in support networks They promote support groups for child-rearing intergenerational activities with elderly people and children physical activity outdoors for the elderly sitting and action to make public space a place for care too Analysis of the state of care in the pilot neighbourhoods a survey was conducted of two thousand people from the four neighbourhoods in the pilot project to gauge the situation with care for local people The preliminary study showed the following data: These data highlight the need to strengthen care and community responses to guarantee everybody’s right to care and be cared for The roll-out of Vila Veïna in the city corresponds to a transformation in the social and healthcare model joint responsibility and personalised care The main change comes through conceiving care as a shared community task Because community care is better than solitary care It is a community area with between 10,000 and 30,000 inhabitants where all social and healthcare resources are shared with the goal of everybody having them nearby and being able to access them easily Each unit will have a headquarters for the team of care specialists each territorial unit will adapt to the particular needs of the neighbourhood where they are implemented Twelve more units will be established in 2022 The roll-out should see 115 units established in total when and where will be the demonstrations and protest days on the occasion of the International Working Women's Day where women and gender dissidents demand rights and freedoms different mobilizations are called throughout the day Here we tell you which will be the main demonstrations their routes and how you can participate in them both on Friday and the previous days there will be parallel activities with different themes but always with feminism and the role of women as the main focus Assemblea 8M has called a protest under the slogan “Les cures sostenen la vida” of women lesbians and trans from 6 pm from Plaça Universitat to Arc de Triomf Plaça Catalunya will also be a meeting point this Friday March 8 with the call of Feministes de Catalunua under the slogan “Som dones i diem prou” This 8M will be read again a manifesto to express the commitment of the Barcelona City Council with the feminist struggle and to denounce all the inequalities and discriminations that women suffer in all areas and in a structural way just because they are women The reading of the manifesto will be on March 7 in Sant Jaume square and will be accompanied by the deployment of a canvas with the image of the 8M campaign on the balcony of the City Hall this year with the slogan “Let’s break the precariousness” the 8m night demonstration “Se va armar la gorda” is convened the night before The main calls are in several points of Gracia at 18:30h Plaça de’n Joanic i Gal-la Placídia) Students have advanced their strike by one day so the strike and feminist student demonstration will be on March 7 Their march will be the turn of female students with a route that will leave from Plaça de la Universitat under the slogan “S’ha acabat which seeks to vindicate the fight against violence against women and vicarious violence which has already caused 9 deaths this year The march will go through the streets Pelai The CGT has called again the feminist strike on March 8 for the International Women’s Day calling to stop working to put at the center of public policies the usually unpaid care work that is done in the domestic or family Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) has communicated that the services could be modified depending on the follow up of the strike called for this 8M Although they have guaranteed a coverage of 85% of the metro and bus services in Barcelona there may be some affectations and also diversions due to the planned rallies and marches Most demonstrations will take place between 17:00 and 20:30 hours That is why the route of the following bus lines will be modified: Have you ever wondered why Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8? We explain all the key dates that brought about this day in this article with a Venus symbol and topped with a fist The most widespread theory about its origin dates back to the beginning of the 20th century the time of the main struggles of European feminism the British suffragettes of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) movement used the colors purple purple could also come from a textile factory fire in the United States In the center of the most commonly seen flag is the Venus symbol together with the raised fist with which it is crowned which was added in reference to the struggles for equality movements constitutes the current look of the feminist flag The 39th edition of the March 8th Award – Maria Aurèlia Capmany with the slogan “Let’s break the precariousness” this year aims to support projects that fight against the precariousness of women in the city of Barcelona to promote gender equality and improve their living conditions The objectives of the award are to recognize initiatives and projects aimed at defending and promoting women’s rights and also to offer economic resources and institutional support to facilitate the implementation of the winning proposals The March 8 Award establishes a single project category which corresponds to a prize awarded by a jury of experts The award ceremony will be held on March 10 “Feminist Conversations” reaches its second edition in 2025 and designed to find answers to the main challenges that stand in the way A project that aims to become a participatory mechanism for dialogue and debate to innovate and nurture policies in strategic areas to achieve real and effective equality This second edition was launched in January with six working groups and will end with the celebration of a conference on April 4 and 5 at the Born Cultural Center music… The libraries of Barcelona join the 8m by launching a special program on the occasion of International Women’s Day musical performances with Júlia Colom and Anaïs Vila (Ellas cantan You can consult the complete agenda of activities in the libraries in this link As happens with the nomenclature of the streets most of the libraries in Barcelona are named after men and they have a generic name of the neighborhood in which they are located With the aim of feminizing this gazetteer from Libraries of Barcelona has wanted to promote the assignment of proper names of women born in Barcelona or with a strong link to the city The new names are: The poet and novelist Ana María Moix the writer and librarian Aurora Díaz Plaja Àngels Rivas and the journalist Mària Sánchez are the next female figures to give names to six libraries there are now 13 libraries in Barcelona named after women: La noticia que cerqueu ha estat despublicada Podeu consultar altres noticies clicant aqui.