The San Cebrián Foundation held an information meeting this past Friday, October 18, between social entities operating in Palencia (Parkinson’s Association of Palencia; Palencia Association of Multiple Sclerosis; ELACyL-Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis of Castilla y León-; Fedispa and Cocemfe) and Palencia institutions such as the Provincial Council of Palencia, the City Council of Palencia and SACYL, with the aim of making them aware of the European project. in which the San Cebrián Foundation, along with 8 other national and international entities, participates called REVITAL Project: Socioeconomic revitalization of low population density areas through clinical telecare.
The objective of the project is to cover the need to provide specialized health care and physical and neurological rehabilitation services through technological tools that allow offering tele-care and tele-rehabilitation services. The aim is to make the project known to users so that after testing and study, and always guided by professionals in the sector (physiotherapists and speech therapists), they can try the technologies recommended by the professional in their homes. The project will run until 2026.
A project that is part of the Interreg VI-B Sudoe 2021 – 2027 Program, whose objective is to promote research, technological development and innovation between Spain, France and Portugal.
The multi-regional Consortium of the Revital Project is made up of a total of 9 entities in the field of health and socio-health sector from Spain, France and Portugal that develop the Project: Cluster Innovative Solutions for Independent Living (SIVI), Management of Social Services of Castilla y León, GOGOA Mobility Robots, École Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA), University of DEUSTO, Etablissement Public de Santé de GARAZI, Associação Empresarial da Beira Baixa (AEBB), Associação Empresarial da Beira Baixa (AEBB), Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB) and the San Cebrián Foundation.
REVITAL Project Information
The main objective of REVITAL is to cover the need to provide specialized health care and physical and neurological rehabilitation services (especially to dependent and elderly people), through technological tools that allow offering tele-care and tele-rehabilitation services, which will also contribute to creating qualified employment and establishing a new population that will boost the rural economy.
To achieve this, the project focuses on responding to the depopulation and aging of inland rural areas by establishing a new population with socio-health training, preventing older and dependent people from having to migrate to urban areas to access advanced clinical services, as well as developing sustainable productive systems based on tele-care and tele-rehabilitation technologies, responding to social needs that are not sufficiently covered in the field of socio-health care services.
Both the objectives and the results foreseen in the REVITAL project are considered of great interest for the regions in which it will be carried out, Castilla y León (Spain), Central Portugal and Nouvelle-Aquitaine (France), and for other SUDOE regions, due to the common challenge and need of these inland rural areas is to revitalize their economic and social fabric, promoting employment opportunities that solve social challenges from the perspective of innovation, combining social needs with development opportunities.
