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David Viera
Coinciding with the ninth edition of Healthy Universities Day - celebrated on October 5 -,the Spanish Network of Health Promoting Universities (REUPS) has once again launched the nationwide blood donation campaign. With the hashtag #Challenge10000, the goal was set to once again achieve 10.000 blood donations among all the universities that were able to join this initiative.
In 2022, the first year to carry out this challenge, 10.371 blood donations were obtained in 30 Spanish universities. However, more editions of the 5.000 Challenge had already been carried out previously, in which 5.000 donations were sought during the celebration of this day. In 2023, the number of effective donations made was 11.350 in 34 universities.
“Taking into account that a single blood donation can help up to three different people, the challenge achieved by these REUPS universities could save more than 34.000 lives,” the organization explains. Likewise, they also highlight that in this campaign more than 4.100 people have been encouraged to donate blood for the first time: "This figure highlights the important work of raising awareness of blood donation campaigns in universities," the organization states.
THE URJC ADVANCES AS A HEALTH PROMOTING UNIVERSITY
Recently, the “Healthy Campus” Program of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) awarded the Rey Juan Carlos University the 'Silver Seal' distinction. This initiative It is essentially aimed at universities and higher education institutions in all countries and regions of the world to improve the well-being of university communities.
To this end, it establishes 100 criteria to evaluate the actions and lines of action that the university carries out in relation to areas such as healthy campus management, physical activity and sports, nutrition, disease prevention, mental and social health, risk behaviors. , or the environment, sustainability and social responsibility.
The process has been led by the Healthy University Office and the Vice-Rector for Campus Community, Culture and Sports, collecting information from different areas of the URJC. Several of the actions presented have been selected as good practices.
“The objective is to work on new actions to build an increasingly healthy university community,” they say from the Healthy University Office, explaining that the FISU will periodically carry out a new assessment of the criteria met and granting a higher seal when appropriate. “The ultimate goal is for the URJC to achieve the Platinum seal,” they say from the office.