The Research Group on the Regeneration of Intermediate Territories (RIL) at the School of Architecture was one of the groups selected. This group is coordinated by Pere Vall, director of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, and also includes Marta Benages, Raquel Colacios, Alvaro Cuellas, Xavier Gracia, Carmen Mendoza, David Pavón and Anna Ribas from the University of Girona. The scientific activity of the Research Group on the Regeneration of Intermediate Territories undertaken over the last three years has focused on creating the methodological grounding for repairing low profile countries, through the incorporation of socio-spatial analysis, the re-evaluation of cultural heritage and supralocal development. 

The project presented within the field of nursing is led by Dr Cristina Montforte, Director of the Department of Nursing at UIC Barcelona, and Dr Albert Balaguer, Mariona Guerrero, Dr Josep Porta and Andrea Rodríguez are also members of the team. The project title is "Suffering at the end of life: Understanding in order to alleviate (perceived dignity, desire for control and the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced cancer)”. The perception of our own dignity is essential in terms of personal wellbeing. Patients with chronic or advanced diseases frequently have a damaged sense of dignity. This is the first time that these aspects have been studied (suffering, dignity, the wish to hasten death) based on this pioneering, multidimensional and multidisciplinary approach (psychology, medicine, nursing, oncology) while also implementing a scientific quantitative and qualitative methodology.