Barcelona Institute for Childhood and Adolescence is a public knowledge institute whose mission is to act as a bridge between research and public policy in order to advance the guarantee of children’s rights and to give childhood and adolescence a priority place on the public agenda. It does so on the basis of research, with a cross-cutting approach and a child-centred perspective, contributing to changing society’s view of childhood by focusing on children’s present-day citizenship and on the strategic importance of this life stage, due to its impact on individual life trajectories and on present and future social cohesion.
Its mission is articulated through four lines of work:
  • Observatory 0–17. Analysing to understand
  • Children’s voices. Listening in order to take them into account
  • Childhood policies. Guiding to transform reality
  • Communication and social debate. Sharing to change perspectives.
Its parent institution is Institut Metròpoli, and its promoting body is Barcelona City Council.

Elisa Stinus Bru de Sala is a Project Coordinator and Researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Children and Adolescents (Institut Infància i Adolescència de Barcelona), part of the Metropolitan Institute (Institut Metròpoli). She holds a PhD in Public Policy and Social Transformation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), an Official Master’s Degree in Public Management (UAB–UPF–UB), a Master’s Degree in Social and Community Policies from UAB, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political and Administrative Sciences from UAB. Her professional career has focused on public sector consultancy in the fields of social policies, life-course policies, and time-use policies. She currently specialises in evidence-informed deliberative policymaking in the area of children and adolescents.