“Listening to Care”: A Success Case in Co-creating Pediatric Hospital Well-being via CBL

This session addresses the question “How can we care if we don’t listen?”, focusing on the challenge of childhood invisibility in clinical settings and the need to amplify young patients’ voices. It presents the institutional strategy of Autonomous University of Barcelona in embedding Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) within Bachelor’s Theses and courses, highlighting the university’s role in enabling ethical, mentored, and impact-driven collaboration with healthcare partners such as Sant Pau Hospital. Through the “Listening to Care” case study, the session showcases co-creation methods with pediatric patients and resulting proposals to improve hospital well-being. It concludes with reflections on students as futuremakers and the potential to replicate this CBL-based model in other contexts.