The Evolution project, in which Deusto participates, studies the experience of 40 young people supervised by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the Department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Evolution, a cross-border research project on social integration of children and adolescents at risk of poverty, coordinated by Etcharry Formation Développement and the University of Deusto, will carry out a questionnaire to 40 young graduates of the child protection services of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the Department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques to find out about their experience. 

The aim of this phase of the project, which began in July 2024, within the framework of the Poctefa-Interreg candidacy co-financed with European funds, is to know the feelings and opinions of these young people about their experience in child and adolescent protection services. Thanks to this exchange between young people and professionals that will take place until March 2025, the Evolution project will be able to develop innovative tools and training for an even more adequate and progressive support.

Deusto Social Values

This is Action 3 of the project, led by the​​​​​ Deusto social Values research group of the University of Deusto, in charge of extracting these life stories of people who are ex-users of child and adolescent protection services of the public administration.

The area of Social Work of the Donostia campus will develop the report of results by carrying out a specific analysis by territory and a unified document that will allow to draw shared conclusions between the two participating regions. The final objective is to identify good practices of intervention, deficits in the systems of care or the need to consider readaptations in the actions developed in the field of child protection, taking into account the contributions made by the protagonists of the intervention.

This action will be complemented by parallel research developed within the framework of the EVOLUTION project on the accompaniment and use of social networks of children and adolescents in a situation of lack of protection (and under guardianship), which will be led by Etcharry Formation. Finally, a third area of work seeks to promote vocational and higher education for young people in child and adolescent protection, led by Nazaret Zentroa in collaboration with the UPV.