The “Safor Salut” cooperation program—a joint initiative of Campus Gandia at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), the FISABIO–Gandia Health Department, FISABIO–HACLE La Pedrera, and the Safor Federation of Business Associations (FAES)—is organizing a citizen science workshop titled “Co-designing Solutions for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain”. The workshop will take place in person on Wednesday, September 24, from 12:30 to 14:30 at Campus Gandia (UPV).
The workshop is free to attend, but registration is required by completing the form.
This activity is designed for university researchers, patients and patient associations, healthcare professionals working with fibromyalgia and chronic pain, companies, public administrations, and technology institutes..
Chronic pain linked to fibromyalgia is a major global healthcare challenge, profoundly impacting the daily lives of those affected and presenting significant difficulties for healthcare professionals.
As part of Safor Salut’s activities, a series of Citizen Science Workshops was held in 2025. These workshops focus on ways citizens can actively contribute to science—through their knowledge, personal experience with the disease, understanding of the environment, or by sharing tools and resources. This will be the fourth and final session in the series.
The first workshop focused on the needs and experiences of patients and associations throughout the course of the illness.
The second workshop examined healthcare professionals’ perspectives on diagnosis and treatment.
In the third workshop, the Safor Salut team reviewed the key points from the first two sessions and identified the challenges to be addressed in the fourth workshop.
The fourth workshop, focused on creativity and co-design, aims to collaboratively develop research and innovation projects with the participation of patients, professionals, companies, and researchers, addressing the challenges identified in the previous sessions.
Learn more about the selected challenges:
Selección de retos proyecto ciencia ciudadana Fibromialgia Safor Salut INNACC/2023/2This 2-hour workshop is designed to generate innovative ideas to tackle the challenges identified throughout the diagnosis and treatment of fibromyalgia and chronic pain:
- Overview of the selected ideas and challenges
- Formation of working groups for the workshop
- Solving challenges with the Kaos vs Control® method
Participants will analyze the situation throughout the citizen science process, exploring different perspectives and generating multiple solutions. The goal is to foster collaborative research and innovation projects among researchers, healthcare professionals, university staff, companies, and other professionals, with patients actively participating from the very outset.
NEW PROJECT IDEAS
If you have a project idea and need a partner from the healthcare, academic, business, or social sectors, submit your idea at s saforsalut.es/ideas-retos, and we will help you find the right collaborator. You can also view submitted ideas and actively contribute by collaborating on their implementation
SAFOR SALUT TEAM
Campus Gandia (UPV): Pilar Sánchez | psanche@upv.es Isabel Fambuena | isfammue@upv.es
Fisabio: María Prada | maria.prada@fisabio.es, Amparo Arlandis | amparo.arlandis@fisabio.es, Amparo Estruch |amparo.estruch@fisabio.es,
Empresas-FAES: Josep Miquel Juan| mjuan@cev.es Fina López | info@faesafor.com
