Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing among Young People through Yoga (HIPPOCAMPUS)

One of the key challenges in effective work with young people is their frequent lack of engagement, a characteristic that many of those who spend time with adolescents (youth workers, parents, teachers) can attest to. Proposed solutions frequently fail to address core issues relating to the intrinsic motivation of the individual, which is directly related to well-being. Many young people suffer from chronic stress and other issues that inhibit the functioning (and indeed the development) of the prefrontal cortex, and this also affects their intrinsic motivation to engage in any activity. In short, unless their well-being is addressed, they cannot engage effectively.

TE-CUIDA, propuesta de un Ecosistema TEcnológico para apoyo a CUIDAdores asistenciales

Investigadores: Mª José Rodríguez Conde, Mª Cruz Sánchez Gómez, Roberto Therón Sánchez, Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso, Ricardo Colomo Palacios.

Ante el envejecimiento que sufre Europa, del que las zonas rurales de Castilla y León es un gran exponente con una media superior a la del resto de España con personas de 65 o más años, se presenta una situación en la que las personas mayores dependientes viven en sus casas y son atendidos no solo por su cónyuge u otro miembro de la familia sino también por vecinos o amigos quienes ejercen el papel de cuidador informal, no siendo remunerados por ello.

WYRED: netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society

The emergence of the young as a distinct social group, and their slowly increasing empowerment through the availability of digital technology, has brought with it an understanding that they have a key role to play in the digital society, as drivers of new behaviours and understandings. However, their active participation in society is not reflected sufficiently in policy and decision-making, especially in relation to digital issues.

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Digital Practicum 3.0: Exploring Augmented Reality, Remote Classrooms, and Virtual Learning To Enrich and Expand Preservice Teacher Education Preparation

PRAC3 would be a pioneer initiative to test the efficacy of an online teaching practicum. Today’s operational online resources aiming at bringing in the ICT in the practicum are based on the web 2.0 (theoretical contents online, users’ interaction via forums, blogs, social websites, etc). However, the ultimate motivation for this consortium is to design integrated online teaching resources for the on-site school teaching training based on web 3.0, which its defining feature is the possibility to access more personalized information according to the user’s experience (e.g., Elaboration of mentors’ and preservice students’ profiles, and virtual personalized school practices).