KIDS Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Website: www.kidsbarcelona.org
The group KIDS Barcelona was created in 2015.
Nowadays, it consists of 20 teenagers, aged 12 to 22 years, who have been trained in the four main areas of the project:
- Biomedicine
- Research
- Innovation
- Clinical trials
The project KIDS Barcelona seeks to answer to the following needs and goals:
- To teach and defend medicine, research and innovation that improves children’s health and treatment, by placing young people in the center of our field of work.
- To promote a consulting process in the hospital, by including teenagers’ voice and opinion in all the research projects that impacts them.
- To involve teenagers in the detection of unfulfilled pediatric needs.
- To plan and perform, from the pediatric perspective, all the processes that take action in the development of a clinical trial (e.g. assent document).
KIDS groups are also entitled as Young Persons’ Advisory Groups (YPAG) and are acknowledged internationally by the regulators as well as by the pharmaceutical industry, recognized as a youth group trained and empowered by a research centre.
Visit www.kidsbarcelona.org to find out more.