Visit to the Women’s, Childhood and Adolescence Health Center in Gorizia
August 16, 2025IPOV documents the model of the Women’s, Childhood and Adolescence Health Center of Gorizia
September 16, 2025Sostener: A Rights-Based Digital Companion for Mothers and Families
During her stay in Spain, Dr. Fernanda González (National University of Entre Ríos—UNER, Argentina) joined a radio program hosted by Spain’s National University of Distance Education (UNED). In conversation with Dr. Laura Quintanilla (Faculty of Psychology, UNED), they explored matrescence—the transition to motherhood—and its deep personal, social, and community implications.
Within this context, Dr. González presented Sostener, a digital application under development at UNER designed to accompany mothers and families. Sostener provides information about rights in childbirth and in sexual and reproductive health. It aims to raise awareness of regulations that recognize obstetric violence as a form of gender-based violence, to offer mental-health support for pregnant and postpartum women and their families, and to become a practical tool for perinatal obstetric care.
The initiative aligns with the objectives of the IPOV project, which seeks to generate knowledge, tools, and international alliances to make obstetric violence visible and to transform it from a rights-based perspective.
Motherhood is often perceived as an individual journey, yet it is in fact woven from social, workplace, and interpersonal threads. Sostener is conceived to accompany women through this process—so that no woman walks alone.
Interview participants:
• Laura Quintanilla Cobian, Professor, Department of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, UNED
• Fernanda González, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, National University of Entre Ríos (UNER), Argentina
• Aitor Fernández Rodríguez, editor and host, UNED Media
Disclaimer: Project IPOV RESPECTFULCARE has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON-MSCA-2022-Staff Exchange programme. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.