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Monday, 21 October, 2019
For the second year, the Institut Guttmann Foundation joins the 48h Open House Barcelona initiative, an architecture festival in which different spaces and emblematic buildings in Barcelona open its doors. The new Guttmann Barcelona building, in La Sagrera neighborhood, is considered of architectural interest and will be open to guided tours this Sunday, October 27th, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and...
Thursday, 19 September, 2019
The Institut Guttmann has hosted today a very special event that has had the participation of the NBA player and world champion Ricky Rubio, and in which the BUC Rugby Wheelchair team has received one of the ColaCao and the Higher Sports Council scholarships Pau Navarro and Darío Salcedo, two patients of the Institut Guttmann who are part of the rugby team adapted from the Barcelona Universitari...
Monday, 9 September, 2019
The 3rd Camp Spinal H2O held in Barcelona from August 31st to September 6th, organized by the Sunaas Foundation and the Institut Guttmann, is consolidated as the most important water sports event for people with spinal cord injury worldwide. A week full of sporting activities in Barcelona, Badalona and Torredembarra. with the participation of spinal cord injuries "experts" as instructors, who make...
Friday, 6 September, 2019
It is an honor to visit the Institut Guttmann and learn more about the magnificent and necessary work you do in our country. We have frameworks for collaboration with the Department of the Interior that many Catalans have benefited from. I am grateful for this collaboration, but especially for the work you do every day and especially how you do it. A very special memory for the Conseller Forn...
Wednesday, 4 September, 2019
More than 1,200 BBVA employees in Catalonia have participated in the solidarity initiative that the bank has set up to promote applied research projects that aim to improve the quality of life of people who have suffered an Ictus. The Institut Guttmann, center of reference in the treatment and neurorehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury, brain damage and other neurological disabilities...
Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
he Youth Ability Camp, the first pediatric campus organized by the Institut Guttmann, was held from June 25 to 28, 2019, and there were 16 young people between 10 and 18 years old, all of them patients of the Institut Guttmann with acquired brain damage and cerebral palsy. On the Campus, in addition to enjoying sports and cultural activities such as the visit to the Natural Sciences Museum, tennis...
Wednesday, 26 June, 2019
Yesterday started the Youth Ability Camp, a summer campus organized by the Institut Guttmann where 16 young people between 10 and 18 years old participate, all of them patients of the Institut Guttmann with acquired brain damage and cerebral palsy. Until June 28, they will enjoy sports and cultural activities such as a visit to the Museum of Natural Sciences, tennis, paddle surfing, volleyball...
Monday, 17 June, 2019
From the 3rd to the 7th June we celebrate the Environment Week in the Institut Guttmann, to share and commit ourselves, both professionals, patients and relatives, to take an active role in the care of our planet. The thematic week, which focused on one of the areas of Corporate Social Responsibility of the Institut Guttmann, offered activities to both patients and families as well as...
Monday, 29 April, 2019
Agora, at Guttmann Barcelona, is consolidated as an open space for debate and think on various topics. In this case, the last conference held in the Agora has been focused on disability and gender violence, deepening in the fact that violence against people with functional diversity often goes unnoticed and against which it is necessary to fight. The talk by Asun Pié, social activist and professor...
Wednesday, 24 April, 2019
This year the day of Saint Jordi (23rd April) was celebrated in the Institut Guttmann in the most special and emotional way. This is the day of roses and books, and so the hospital was filled with handmade roses, created in different workshops by patients, relatives and volunteers. Each rose included a word of love, positivity and hope, and these were distributed throughout the areas of the...