ADINBERRI Launches Innovative Observatory & Knowledge Hub to Combat loneliness  

ADINBERRI, the Foundation for Innovation in Ageing of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain), has been tackling loneliness for years through the HARIAK strategy, which has become a benchmark in Europe. This strategy provides for various instruments key to addressing this phenomenon from very different areas. 

In addition to providing users with interactive access to the strategy, the website www.hariak.adinberri.eus also contains the roadmap drawn up by Gipuzkoa to prevent loneliness. One stand-out feature of the website is the Observatory, a depository of studies, research papers,documents of interest and reports on this ever growing phenomenon of increasing concern in Western countries. 

The Observatory is part of a larger tool, ADINBERRI's Advanced Intelligence System (SIA, in its initials in Spanish), a reference platform for knowledge sharing, identifying trends and designing future scenarios associated with the main challenges of ageing. The SIA, freely accessible for the ecosystem and the public at large, provides public institutions and private companies, knowledge centres and social initiative organisations with knowledge to help in their decision-making process for strategic planning in the short, medium and long term. 

Another key tool on the HARIAK website is the Map of Initiatives, which provides a quick, efficient and clear overview of all ongoing projects in Gipuzkoa designed to tackle and prevent loneliness. The section features a search engine for any type of initiative linked to the HARIAK strategy in any district of the region, providing information on each project such as its purpose, geographical scope, project type, starting year, target group and the organisation leading the project. 

Learn more: Observatory – Hariak https://hariak.adinberri.eus/en/observatory