Inauguration of the new Foundation Campus, annexed to Mollet University Hospital
The new Foundation Campus, a 5,000 m² facility annexed to Mollet University Hospital, has been officially inaugurated. The space will house the educational offer of this university centre of the University of Barcelona and will contribute to offering advanced health services and promoting health training for the community of Baix Vallès. The aim of this project, promoted by the Fundació Sanitària Mollet (FSM), is to respond to the growing demand for specialized health services and to reinforce health education by becoming fully integrated into the academic and social life of the region.
The new Foundation Campus, a 5,000 m² facility annexed to Mollet University Hospital, has been officially inaugurated. The space will house the educational offer of this university centre of the University of Barcelona and will contribute to offering advanced health services and promoting health training for the community of Baix Vallès. The aim of this project, promoted by the Fundació Sanitària Mollet (FSM), is to respond to the growing demand for specialized health services and to reinforce health education by becoming fully integrated into the academic and social life of the region.
Olga Pané, Catalan Minister of Health at Government of Catalonia, presided over the opening ceremony, which was attended by several institutional and academic authorities. Núria Montserrat, Catalan Minister of Research and Universities; Silvia Paneque, Catalan Minister of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition and spokesperson for the Government; Mireia Dionisio, Mayor of Mollet del Vallès; Joan Guàrdia, Rector of the UB, and Maia Alcoberro, President of the Fundació Sanitària Mollet, accompanied Pané.
Alcoberro stressed the importance of the collaboration with the UB. In particular, she highlighted the launch of the Centre for Planetary Health, in collaboration with the Barcelona Global Health Institute (ISGlobal), and the recent signing of the UB-FSM Chair on Spiritual Health and Humanization with the UB, an important milestone for the future of the institution.
Before the event started, the authorities were given a guided tour of the new facilities of the Foundation Campus, which include a 1,000 m² university lecture hall, a simulation laboratory for practical learning, a community access library and an auditorium with a capacity for 300 people, adapted for both academic and cultural events.
The new building will house all the FSM’s teaching activity, from higher and intermediate level training cycles in health and sustainability studies to the teaching activity of the professionals in the same facility (career plans, MIR staff — doctors and medical interns — and IIR — nurses and nurse interns), as well as courses and alliances with other teaching institutions for health professionals and the social sector for the future.