LA LAGUNA (TENERIFE), January 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The rector of the University of La Laguna, Francisco García, and the Minister of Social Welfare, Youth, Children and Families of the Government of the Canary Islands, Candelaria Delgado, signed a collaboration agreement this Wednesday, January, by which the Chair is launched Institutional Institute for Childhood and Adolescence, which is expected to be directed by Civil Law professor Aránzazu Calzadilla.
This new entity dependent on the university center will serve as a forum for training and research on subjects already related from an interdisciplinary point of view, addressing them from the social sciences, legal sciences and psychology.
The counselor maintained that the creation of the chair fulfills the strategic objectives of her department and the 2030 Agenda itself on the protection of children’s rights, according to a note from the Ministry.
Delgado added in the call held at the Rectorate that the Canary Islands have 1,800 minors under guardianship, to which we must add more than 5,000 unaccompanied foreign minors who, due to their own conditions, are in a vulnerable situation.
The counselor maintained that Unicef itself highlights that the highest poverty rate is found in childhood, to which she added that she trusts in the value of public universities and their professionals to provide points of view and measures that reverse this situation.
It was also noted at the meeting that the Ministry intends to implement a general action protocol in all areas of this department to plan public policies and have the technical support and advice of experts from the University of La Laguna. .
For his part, the rector indicated that approaching the university to improve knowledge of the areas where decisions must be made is completely “relevant” and is a sign of the usefulness of higher education institutions.
Francisco García explained that the academic center has around twenty institutional chairs, given that it has proven to be an “agile and very useful” instrument from which to address different topics and propose areas for improvement.
Professor Aránzazu Calzadilla explained that the University of La Laguna is part of the University Network for Childhood and Adolescence, a very powerful academic network of specialized teachers and from which the newly created chair itself will also draw.
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The ULL highlights that it will now be the mixed commission that will decide the annual work plan, which in any case aims to address the support of young university students who have been supervised by the Government of the Canary Islands, with the idea of strengthening their link with the university. and successfully persist in their studies, an experience that is already being carried out in other universities.
“We need more empathetic societies and protect people from dangerous situations,” commented the professor.
The counselor added that her department is already carrying out some monitoring measures with young people who have been placed under guardianship, even if they have passed the age of majority, with the aim of preventing them from falling into another network of exclusion.
Although the agreement has now been signed, prior work has been carried out by the two institutions, university and Ministry, which was praised by Calzadilla, who also highlighted that the academic center has highly consolidated teaching staff in matters of childhood and adolescence who will surely contribute content to the institutional chair.
