A retreat to add collaborations

A hundred professionals from the IDIAPJGol shared, this May 31, a participative one-day event at Món Sant Benet. The IDIAPJGol Retreat was the right environment to get to know each other better, share experiences and generate opportunities that allow us to join forces, beyond research areas and territoriality.

The central activity was the dynamic World Café, through which researchers from different places, groups and fields of knowledge looked for the keys that should allow us to create synergies and enhance mutual collaboration. An exercise in shared intelligence that must be the basis of the future IDIAPJGol Relationship Code.

During the day, we also learned about collaboration experiences, both from our research groups and from other institutions.

The PI Enric Aragonés and Maribel Fernández San Martín explained the coordination of their groups in projects such as MINDCovid or MINDCAMFiC, in structures such as TECSAM or to compete in the accreditation of the AGAUR. "Mental health is transversal and can be approached from many perspectives, always rooted in Primary Care and community health", remarked.

Talita Duarte-Salles presented the potentialities, challenges and opportunities for collaboration of her Real World Epidemiology group. "At IDIAPJGol we have many very powerful research groups. We must further promote collaboration between us and also with other research structures", she defended.

The team of the Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili de Tarragona (IISPV) offered a wide conference, in which they detailed their main lines of research and the long and profitable trajectory of collaboration maintained by the two institutes.

After a fraternity lunch, the final part of the Retreat was dedicated to exhibiting IDIAPJGol projects that offer opportunities for collaboration. A series of simultaneous presentations in a small format, distributed throughout the gardens and the magnificent spaces of Món Sant Benet, which made it possible to deepen mutual knowledge and connect researchers and projects.