Technical Director of COCARMI (Catalonia). Social worker. Postgraduate studies in Conflict Resolution and in Couple and Family Therapy. Her professional career has been linked for 20 years to the social third sector and the social and solidarity economy. Among other roles, she has advised organisations for people with disabilities on their management and political advocacy at the local level, organised events, and facilitated various working groups and participatory spaces.

Member of the Spanish Bioethics Committee and Professor of Civil Law at the University of Seville. Judge at the Civil Chamber of the Provincial Court of Seville (1999-2003).

Historian. Communication team professional at Fundació Drissa. He has first-hand lived experience in mental health and is involved in several projects run by the organisation. These include the Digital Agents initiative, which aims to reduce the digital divide among people in the community, and Entre Iguals, where he draws on his experience to provide support for the recovery of individuals facing mental health challenges.

Secretary General of EASPD (European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities), the largest European NGO active in the field of disability services, bringing together over 20,000 organisations from more than 40 countries. Thomas Bignal is also Vice President of Social Services in Europe and has served as Director of the Federation of European Social Employers. Master’s degree in International Law.

Psychiatrist, MD, PhD. Trained at the psychiatric hospitals of Salt (Girona) and Valladolid, as well as at the Professional School of Psychiatry in Barcelona. Psychoanalysis with Marta Lázaro. Professor of Community and Preventive Psychology (University of the Basque Country). Professor of Psychiatry (University of Oviedo). Visiting professor at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Research stays in Paris, Lyon, Ghent, and Geneva. Former Director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Oviedo. Former Regional Director of Mental Health in Asturias.

Expert by experience at UDAF 82 Montauban, Occitania. Departmental Union for Family Assistance. Member of Capdroits, a group from the southwest of France.

Collaborator at Cap’lab, a mixed research community integrating first-hand experiences, university research professionals, and support professionals.