Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Spain: Community of Valencia
Employment and access to health and social care services and long-term care

Date: March 10, 2026
Time: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Place:
Casa de la Cultura – Salón de Actos
(Calle Camino, 1, 46300, Utiel, Valencia)
Fundación Mapfre is committed to the rural environment as a space for opportunities and is organizing this meeting in which representatives of public administrations, the private sector, rural Valencia and its most vulnerable inhabitants will provide the keys to promoting the development of innovative solutions adapted to the environment based on two fundamental factors:
- Rural women and entrepreneurship.
- Improving quality of life through sport.
In collaboration with:

PROGRAM
- 10:30 am – Opening session.
- 10:45 am – Institutional welcome.
- 10:50 am – Round table on improving access to health and social services and long-term care.
Focus: Improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups through sport.- The public sector perspective. D. Carlos Momparler Martínez, Director General of Primary Care, Valencian Government.
- The private sector perspective. D. José Luis Herreros Sanz, President of the Official College of Graduates in Physical Education, Valencian Community.
- The third sector perspective. Dña. Marian Ferrús Pérez, President of the Valencian Community’s Inclusion Program.
Moderator: Teresa Arnandis.
- 11:50 am – Round table on social and workplace inclusion in rural areas. New sources and opportunities.
Focus: Rural women and entrepreneurship.
- The public sector perspective. Dña. Asunción Quinzá Alegre. Regional Secretary for Equality and Diversity.
- The private sector perspective. Dña. Mª Dolores Ferrando, Founder of Oli Oli.
- The third sector perspective. Dña. Amparo Mora, President of AFAMMER in the Valencian Community.
Moderator: Teresa Arnandis.
- 12:50 am – Institutional closing.
- 1:00 pm – End of the event and Spanish wine tasting.