A quarter of the world's population will suffer from a mental disorder during their lifetime, according to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), which considers mental health one of the major challenges for improving care. There is more data that explains this concern: 15% of adolescents will also experience distress; suicide is the second leading cause of unnatural death among minors. No one escapes falling into a state of anguish, depression, anxiety, or an eating disorder, although there are individual factors (low self-esteem, illness, or addiction) and socioeconomic factors (stress, unemployment, discrimination, injustice, or unwanted loneliness) that can contribute to suffering.

A couple of days a week, Dr. Joan Veny i Clar (Campos, 1932) still goes to work at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. The great dialectologist of Catalan, Catalan Literature Honorary Award 2015He is a devotee of words. After more than sixty years of work, he has been able to see the great quest of his life come to fruition.Linguistic Atlas of the Catalan Domainwhich she co-edited with Lídia Pons, also a professor at the University of Barcelona. It is a fundamental work for understanding the richness of linguistic diversity throughout the Catalan-speaking world and ranks among the major reference works on the Catalan language.

Armed with a tape recorder, from 1964 to 1978, summer after summer, philologists from the University of Barcelona combed through 190 towns and villages across the Catalan-speaking world, interviewing elderly people who still spoke the most authentic language of each place. From Salsas to Guardamar and from Fraga to Alghero—passing through places like Àger, Chiva de Morella, Pollensa, Mora la Nova, Arbeca, Barcelona, ​​and Begur—the goal was to discover which words were used in everyday life, what the Catalans called words related to frost or harvest. potato, lamb and washAll the dialectal richness of Catalan is frozen and preserved in one of the great works that our language already possesses, theLinguistic Atlas of the Catalan Domain (ALDC), published by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), which the institution considers complete after more than 60 years of work.

The focus on emotional well-being and the rise of international cuisine are two global phenomena that have permeated our lives and have also reached the dictionary. The lexicographical commission has added 375 new entries to the normative dictionary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (DIEC) in 2025, including 117 new entries and 258 modifications or additions. Among the new entries are words such as self-help, dana, rumors, sleeve, jacuzzi, aquagym, sushi and mozzarellaAmong the expansions of meaning in words that already existed, words like cloud, frontal, migrate and padMany words from different dialectal varieties are also being incorporated into the dictionary "so that all speakers feel a connection to it," says philologist Sandra Montserrat. Expanding the standard helps to strengthen the unity of the language.

Catalonia has three official languages: Catalan, the national language; Spanish, the official language in Spain; and Occitan, known as Aranese in Aran, which is the national language of this territory and is also official throughout Catalonia. Catalan Sign Language is also officially recognized. For the first time, Barcelona will host the headquarters of the two academies of Catalonia, Catalan and Occitan. The president of the Institut d'Estudis Aranesi - Aranese Academy of the Occitan Language, Jèp de Montoya (Les, 1959), celebrates the opening of a delegation that houses the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

The acceleration of the deployment of renewable energy in Catalonia was the theme of the event organized last Tuesday by the newspaper ARA and the Efficient Energy Cluster of Catalonia (CEEC), with the support of the Catalan Energy Institute (ICAEN). With the provocative title "Without Fear of Renewables," the event brought together voices from the government, the business world, and the region to address the challenges, opportunities, and collective strategies for addressing a key issue for the country's future.

"We are resilient and rebellious," declared the president of the Escola Valenciana (EV), professor and activist Alexandra Usó, on Tuesday. The organization celebrates forty years since its founding in defense of Catalan in 2025 by receiving the 67th Prat de la Riba Award from the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC) for its "determined and constant attitude in defense of the unity of the language and for its work in favor of linguistic normalization in the Valencian Country." The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, Sant Jordi.