The SALSA Project (Health, ALimentation, and SociAbility), driven by the Alícia Foundation and jointly designed with the Research and Innovation Unit of ICS Catalunya Central and IDIAPJGol, has been awarded the 2025 Josep Davins i Miralles Award by the Academy of Medical and Health Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine (CAMFiC). The award was presented during a ceremony held on May 20 at the Academy’s headquarters.

This award recognizes primary care initiatives that have already been implemented and for which results can already be evaluated. The SALSA Project proposes creating community networks for healthy eating, autonomy, and social interaction through the prescription of shared meals in neighbourhood restaurants for people experiencing loneliness.

Family physician at CAP Sant Joan de Vilatorrada and researcher at the Research Support Unit Catalunya Central of IDIAPJGol, Anna Ruiz Comellas, received the award from the hands of the president of the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine (CAMFiC), Antoni Sisó, chair of the jury, in recognition of the positive impact this intervention has on the nutritional status and emotional well-being of participants.

With this €4,000 prize, there is a strengthened commitment to establish the project as an exportable model to other municipalities and to promote social prescribing as an innovative tool for integrated community health care.