It is a group dedicated to designing technological solutions that help vulnerable groups such as those formed by people with disabilities. Therefore, its main objective is to help communities to realize their potential through the engineering of socio-technical systems.
A few years ago, they made the decision to integrate people from outside the world of computing into the group with the aim of looking for real social needs, and also from fields such as nursing.
They offer a plan of activities with the supervision of a mentor and have to make a report of the experience on their return, including an analysis of the barriers of any kind they have encountered and the identification of good practices.
It is part of the H2020 Program and facilitates the exchange of people between academia and non-academia.
This practice promotes the collaboration of multidisciplinary teams to work in a cooperative and distributed manner on issues of social interest, and tools to support the inclusion and production of common goods. At the same time, education and innovation are also a focus of the group, as it presents an intense participation in teaching innovation projects.
It is an innovative opportunity to prepare students for the world of work. In addition, it offers the inclusion of those students who may have learning difficulties.