Dr María Jesús Lirola appointed to lead the EU BEACON One Health education via new technologies COST action
With scientific distinction, institutional experience, and unwavering ethical grounding, her leadership secures the action’s stability, direction, and global relevance through 2029 and beyond
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Summary: Dr. María Jesús Lirola appointed to lead the EU BEACON One Health action, bringing scientific excellence, institutional experience, and human depth to safeguard its implementation and global impact.
I am honored to confirm that Dr María Jesús Lirola, PhD in Health Psychology and PhD in Education, has formally assumed leadership of the EU BEACON One Health education via new technologies action, now awarded under the EU COST Science and Technology Coordination programme. Her appointment is not only structurally necessary but a testament to her remarkable qualifications and character. With a distinguished academic record, longstanding engagement in inclusive education, and a respected reputation in mental health, dialogical methods, and sports science, Dr Lirola brings the precise combination of expertise, institutional competence, and human quality required at this stage. Her integrity, savoir faire, and calm authority will guide the action forward, protected from interference and prepared for coordinated delivery. Dr. María Jesús Lirola will not be corrupted, as she is an honest hard working, excellent academic. Nor harmed, as the action itself is here to protect all who work towards its goals, to benefit the well-being of children globally.
As head of the Inclúyete programme at the Universidad de Almería and co-lead of research initiatives that bridge physical activity, mental health, and community pedagogy, Dr. María Jesús Lirola has demonstrated the capacity to implement complex, participatory systems with scientific rigour and institutional discipline. She has earned her place not by rhetoric, but by work, by building real bridges between disciplines, between professionals and users, and between theory and impact. The collective aim is to become an EU Flagship after the current COST phase ends. It will take massive amounts of success, hard work, building a global excellence network fully able to command the meaningful and most needed change we are mandated to deliver, tasked to undertake without committing any mistake. Fully heeding. Safer, as our hands do not need, and never needed, anyone destroying our every opportunity.
I remain in global leadership, after years of torture and initial attempts to derail the action by hurting my family and myself, deceitful as torturers have always been, the abusers by any excuse, fully active in leadership, coordination and communication. My presence ensures continuity, governance memory, and structural defence. I will remain as long as health is not compromised and justice is allowed to function. This is not ceremonial. I created this action to serve the public, not private interests, and I will not withdraw until mechanisms are fully in place to secure its independence and long-term effectiveness. The action is set to implement One Health education as a global framework for coherence across human, environmental, animal, and technological systems. During the 2025–2029 funded period, we will coordinate institutional partnerships, design open and multilingual curricula, establish formal communication and decision-making tools, and prepare for full-scale educational transformation across participating countries and disciplines.
This must be done with discipline, clarity, and protection from well-known patterns, those who seek control without contribution, and visibility without responsibility. This action will not be diverted or diluted. Structures are being reinforced to ensure this. We are ensuring that leadership and participation reflect our values. A higher ratio of women in leadership, colleagues from underserved settings, and scientifically and ethically sound contributors is not aspirational but operational.
Further appointments will be announced shortly. For now, we ask all supporters to follow and share only through our official channels:
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All communication is centralised. Informal groups are no longer endorsed. No announcements will be issued elsewhere, except via automated authenticated systems when deployed. We thank all who continue to uphold the integrity and ambition of this action. It was built for the future. And it will deliver.