Salvador Simó Algado

International consultant, researcher and lecturer

 

Co – Director Chair of Mental Health UVic-UCC
Coordinator of the Mental Health and Social Innovation Research Group

If you want to develop projects based on ICT, social innovation and entrepreneurship, Occupational Science/Therapy, and mental health to create healthy and inclusive communities, and/or develop research projects, it will be a pleasure to work with you. I put at your disposal twenty years of professional experience, and my training:

  • PhD in Inclusive Education (UVic-UCC);
  • Bachelor in Occupational Therapy (UZaragoza);
  • Executive Master in Business Administration (ENAC);
  • Postgraduate in Qualitative Research (Karolinska Institutet):
  • Postgraduate in Social Entrepreneurship (IESE Business School);
  • Postgraduate in Project Design (Hogeschool Van Amsterdam),
  • Research stays at universities such as British Columbia, Manitoba, Ottawa, Toronto, Dalhousie (in Canada), Porto (Portugal), Oxford Brookes (UK), Magallanes and Andres Bello (Chile).

CONSULTANT

I have worked for universities, city halls and public institutions, companies and NGOs; to develop a consultant and advisory role in the design and implementation of:

LEER MÁS
  • Entrepreneurship, ICT, social innovation and wellbeing projects.
  • Projects of comprehensive approach to poverty and labour insertion.
  • Management of Corporate Social Responsibility Policy.
  • Projects to promote well-being and social inclusion through art (visits to museums, etc.).
  • Design of university’s CV that integrate teaching with research from a reality-based learning.
  • Research projects from a qualitative methodology.

PRIZES AND RECOGNITIONS

Our work has been recognized as:

LEER MÁS
  • Good European practice in the fight against poverty in the framework of the European Union.
  • Good practice by UNESCO – Global University Network for Innovation GUNI
  • Good Praxis of Service Learning by the Bofill Foundation.
  • Good innovation praxis by AQUAS.
  • National Award for Social Innovation for Obra Social de La Caixa.

COURSES-TEACHING

I offer courses (graduate, master level), conferences, among other topics, on:

LEER MÁS
  • Innovation, new technologies and social entrepreneurship.
  • Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science.
  • Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and  Participation.
  • Qualitative research methodology.
  • Community interventions.

INTERNATIONAL THINK TANK PARTICIPATION

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH OCCUPATION

European Think Tank to reflect for an occupational science perspective about the potential contribution of occupation to social transformation.

 

Participants: Deborah Laliberte Rudman, Nick Pollard, Claire Craig, Sarah Kantartzis, Barbara Piškur, Salvador Algado Simó , Hanneke van Bruggen & Sandra Schiller.

 

On of the products has been the article Contributing to social transformation through occupation: Experiences from a think tank, available at Link

 

MIGRATIONS AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES

International Think Tank to reflect about how to improve the interventions with forced migrants.

 

Participants: Concettina Trimboli , Natalia Rivas-Quarneti, Nadine Blankvoort, Ina Roosen , Salvador Simó Algado  & Gail Whiteford.

 

Products: Article The current and future contribution of occupational therapy and occupational science to transforming the situation of forced migrants: Critical perspectives from a think tank.

 

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FROM THE SOUTH

Iberoamerican Think Thank whose main goal has been to reflect about the emergence of an Occupational Therapy from the South.

 

Participants: the Think Tank has been leaded with Alejandro Guajardo, Solangel García, Sandra Galheigo, Fatima Correa, Salvador Simó (Coordinators), among other authors.

 

One  of the most important products has been the book Terapias Ocupacionales  desde el Sur: Derechos Humanos, ciudadanía y participación. (Simó Algado et al). Santiago de Chile: USACH.

 

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY WITHOUT BORDERS

International Think Tank to develop Occupational Therapy with populations underserved, due to economic, cultural, social or gender factors. It has generated theoretic debates and praxis interventions.

 

Participants: This movement was originally funded by Frank Kronenberg and Salvador Simó. Nick Pollard joined us for the 1st Edition of Occupational Therapy without Borders.

 

Products: The movement has published 3 books. I have been co-author of the first one, and I have participated with chapters in the other 2 books.

 

2004 Occupational therapy without borders: learning from the spirit of survivors. Oxford (England): Elseviers.

PROJECTS I HAVE CO/DESIGNED AND CO/EXECUTED

EUROPEAN PROJECTS
  • Intensive Program Inclusive communities. Ankara (Turkey). ENOTHE. 2006.
  • Intensive Program Inclusive communities. Riga (Latvia). ENOTHE. 2007.
  • Intensive Program Inclusive communities. Rousse (Bulgary). ENOTHE. 2008.
  • Empowering learning and social integration through occupation. ELSITO. Unión Europea. 2012.
  • Competences for Poverty Reduction COPORE. 2013.
  • Riding together: Horse riding for social inclusion. 2016-2018.
  • UNINTEGRA: a project for migrants. 2016-2018.
  • INTERACT: Interdisciplinary cooperation in psychosocial interventions. 2018-2020.
  • Community for Sciences H2020: starting 2020.
SOCIAL INCLUSION AND JOB INSERTION
  • Intervention in the Torrero prison. Ministry of Interior. 1996.
  • Job placement with EcoSPORTech youth. Vic City Council – CESPA. 2013-2014.
  • SHES. Job insertion developing ecological projects. 2013-2015.
  • Project for a comprehensive approach to poverty – City of Manlleu. 2014-2016.
  • Education and well-being for the children of the primary schools of Vic. 2017.
  • Addressing child poverty by empowering students, parents, and teachers. Vic, Barcelona. 2017.
  • Youth job placement through INSERMAR sailing activities. 2019-2020.
  • Education and well-being for children. Santa Caterina School. 2018-2019.
MENTAL HEALTH
  • Participatory Action Research /Job placement with people with mental illness. 2005-Present.
  • Suicide and life. International research to design a suicide prevention program (Spain and Portugal). 2014-2017.
  • BIOARTCAFÉ. Social entrepreneurship for people with mental illness. OSONAMENT. 2016-2017.
  • Job placement with people with mental illness: Peer to Peer. 2018-2019.
  • New technologies for the mental health of young people. ROTARY. 2019.
ART, HEALTH AND INCLUSION
  • Art for the well-being and social participation of people with Alzheimer’s disease. CCCB. 2016.
  • Art for the well-being and social participation of people with mental illness. Thyssen museum. Madrid. 2017.
  • Art for the well-being and social participation of people with mental illness. Museum of Fine Arts. La Coruña. 2017.
  • Music for the well-being and social participation of people with Alzheimer’s. Auditorium of Catalonia. Barcelona. 2017.
  • Art for the well-being and social participation of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Winnipeg Art Gallery. Canada. 2017.
  • Art for the well-being and social participation of people with Alzheimer’s disease. National Auditorium of Catalonia. Barcelona. 2018.
INTERNACIONAL COOPERATION
  • Psychosocial intervention with refugees from Bosnia. International Consortium Of Solidarity. 1993-1995.
  • Intervention with an indigenous Mayan refugee community. Zaragoza’s University. 1996.
  • Mental health prevention with child survivors of war in Kosovo. Doctors without borders. 1999.
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