Invitation to Chair directors and university professors (Educational Escape Rooms Webinar)

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Telefónica Chairs invites Chair Directors and professors to the Webinar Telefónica Chairs: Educational Escape Rooms. A meeting organised for those interested in the concept of Educational Escape Rooms and, more specifically, in the  ESCAPP platform which has been developed in coordination with the Telefónica Chair - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, which is having great success even with other European universities, and they consider that it can be a very useful tool for the work of teaching staff in general.

Escape rooms are team action games that have revolutionised the world of entertainment. Players face the challenge of discovering clues and solving challenges to achieve a specific objective. These activities have great potential to foster skills such as teamwork, leadership, creative thinking... And from this, educational escape rooms are born, where part of the content of a subject is integrated into their challenges, so that students must master that content to achieve the final goal.

Date: From 16-02-2022 Until 16-02-2022

Location: ETS of Telecommunications Engineering

Organised by:  UPM Telefónica Chair

Places available: 69

Programme

12:00h Presentation
Alejandro Chinchilla Rodríguez - Head of Relations with Universities and Telefónica Chairs
12:05h Development
Juan Quemada Vives- Director of the Telefónica Chair at the UPM
Sonsoles López Pernas - Lecturer at the UPM
13:15h Question and answer session
13:30h End

If you want to participate in this online event, just register on the website and log in.

All information and registration link at https://eventos.upm.es/77615/detail/webinar-catedras-telefonica_-escape-rooms-educativas.html

 

Workshop on Immersive Narratives and Art History II

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Next 9/02, 16:30-19:00h. we return with the 2nd edition of the workshop on immersive narratives and Art History with Leticia Crespillo Marí (Predoctoral Researcher at the Department of Art History of the University of Málaga) and José Gabriel Ruiz Gonzálvez (C.E.O of Opossum Studios. A activity that takes place in the framework of the Master's Degree in Social Developments in Artistic Culture and the Telefónica-UMA 5G Chair.
The aim of this workshop is to show what Virtual Reality offers in the field of humanities in general and, more specifically, in the field of Art History. It will show, among other works, the immersive experience Postcatalogue (2020) by iArtHis_Lab (Laboratory for research, innovation and training focused on the study of artistic culture from digital, computational and techno-critical perspectives) and Opossum Studios Virtual Builders, Melilla), which was part of the exhibition Triggered catalogues and which was open to the public between December and January 2021 in the Sala del Rectorado of the University of Malaga).

A new project with 5G technology is being developed in Malaga, in collaboration with the UMA.

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Malaga City Council and Darwin are working to put autonomous vehicles into circulation in the city. This is the title of the article we are sharing with you, which covers, in general, the development of a new project that aims to rethink in an innovative way the way in which we travel at user level. In this regard, the respective heads and C.E.Os of the various companies that are part of this ongoing project explain the proposal and present it as an efficient way to ensure collaboration between relevant players in the connectivity, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence industry.

A proposal that extends towards the concept of new cultural or digital connected itineraries (autonomous routes) focused on communication and security. This project also has the collaboration of other actors, including the University of Malaga.

All the information can be found at the following link: https://www.elespanol.com/malaga/economia/tecnologia/20211221/ayuntamiento-darwin-trabajan-circulacion-vehiculos-autonomos-malaga/636436675_0.html

 

JARCT 2021 - Telefónica Chairs Network Annual Conference

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Tomorrow, 01 December 2021, from 10:00 to 14:00, the Annual Conference of the Telefónica Chairs Network will be broadcast live via streaming. In this way it will be accessible to teachers and students of those universities who wish to follow it, but for whatever reason cannot attend in person.

The link on Youtube to follow the conference is as follows:

https://youtu.be/j-LBsTCx_D0

The programme is attached below:

 

 

 

Winners of the SOFIA Home AI Challenge (National Challenge together with Talentum (HR) and Telefónica's Open Innovation)

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The winning teams of the SOFIA AI at Home Challenge which was launched nationally together with Talentum (HR) and Open Innovation of Telefónica: The SofIA for the Home challenge already has winners Congratulations cracks! - Telefónica (telefonica.com)
 
Telefónica, in its eagerness to involve and incorporate the university and academic ecosystem in its AI democratisation scheme, recently launched the SofIA for the Home challenge with the aim of stimulating the presentation of ideas and proposals that improve people's lives in their personal universe: their house, their home. The challenge (Home AI Challenge - Talentum (talentumtelefonica.com) basador on the experience and expertise of the Digital Home, The project has been a genuine exercise in collaboration and interweaving between the business reality and the university ecosystem, The students received invaluable mentoring and master classes from the different Telefónica multidisciplinary teams, as well as sharing an invaluable experience. The four finalist teams and their respective Telefónica Chairs were:
 
  • First Prize: IndIAna (C.T. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  • Second Prize: Foundation (C.T. University of Vigo)
  • Extraordinary awards:  PandorIA  (C.T. Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Jarvis (C.T. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
 

 

 

RCT - Winners of the II Hack4Edu in collaboration with the Telefónica Chairs Network

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Telefónica congratulates all of the winning projects in the second edition of the international hackathon Hack4Edu organised from the Telefónica Chair - Pontifical University of Salamanca and in which also participated their Telefónica Chairs of the Universities of Salamanca and Deusto. We would like to thank these three universities for their collaboration with this great initiative to help digital education in the most vulnerable environments!

 

For 3 days, 130 hackers from 6 countries and 12 Spanish and Latin American universities worked in multidisciplinary teams in a hybrid format to come up with solutions to the challenges of digital education. A digital “Pasapalabra” against illiteracy and an app for the learning of students with hearing disabilities, among the winning projects in #hack4edu (Inclusive projects adapted to vulnerable environments, awarded in #hack4edu | ProFuturo.

#hack4edu is an initiative of «ProFuturo” y the Pontifical University of Salamanca (UPSA) in collaboration with the Telefónica Chairs Network.

Award-winning projects 

In the Senior category, which awards two prizes of €1,000, one has been awarded to ex aequo (with an endowment of 500 € each) to one team of the Pontifical University of Salamanca (UPSA) and another from the Technological University of Panama. The first one presents a tool that detects students' emotions by means of deep learning to improve the development of classes and make them more dynamic and attractive; and the second proposes the construction of a web prototype capable of translating Panamanian sign language with artificial intelligence. Regarding the latter, called Signspa, The jury emphasised that it can contribute to the inclusion of people with hearing problems in the world of education.

In the same category, a prize of €1,000 was also awarded to the project of the University of Salamanca (USAL) Words4All, developed by a team of teachers and students from the fields of health, education and computer science. Their proposal consists of an app based on the world-renowned Pasapalabra which, using disruptive technologies such as voice recognition, addresses illiteracy and promotes learning through the use of gamification.

In the Innovative mode, The first prize, worth €1,000, went to a team from the University of Salamanca (USAL) for the project Hear4All. It is an app that translates different languages and dialects into sign language in real time to improve the educational experience of deaf people. The jury highlighted its quality, its focus on a real problem and its potential for future development. In the same category, the following projects were awarded second prize (€700) and third prize (€500), respectively E-Señas, of the Instituto Federal Catarinense of Brazil, y Listudents, of the Pontifical University of Salamanca (UPSA). The first proposes an intelligent virtual platform to help deaf students in their learning and the second proposes a 180-degree turn to the traditional method of roll call, with an app that allows them to do it automatically thanks to NFC technology (Near Field Communication), thus saving time for students and teachers.

In addition, the promoters of the project “The aid decision”.”, from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (UPSA), have received two free enrolments to study for the Título Propio de Experto en Big Data of the same university. The aim of this award is to recognise work that has been developed with data and has managed to extract value from the information. The proposal recognised in this case is a programme based on the development of a scorecard that allows organisations and governments to establish criteria for allocating educational aid more effectively.

A second edition with a higher level and in hybrid format

The organisers of the hackathon, promoted by ProFuturo and the UPSA with the collaboration of the Telefónica Chairs Network, point out the qualitative leap in this second edition. “The level is becoming more and more professional. We are seeing projects and prototypes that really respond to a need. This year the participants have surpassed themselves and there has been a great involvement of students, professors, etc., who have formed a diversity of mixed teams, with different skills and nationalities, including collaboration between Latin American and Spanish sites, but also between Spanish ones”, says Manuel José Ruiz García, manager of data analytics at ProFuturo and coordinator of #hack4edu. 

CODE CHALLENGE (launch for students from Telefónica Chairs Network universities)

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Do you like challenges?
Are you good at programming?
Would you like to compete with the best?

The Code Challenge is for you!

 

Code Challenge (Code Challenge) is a Telefónica proposal with new challenges for programming lovers (20 challenges focused on algorithms, reversing and security) and the chance to win fantastic prizes. After 10 editions of the Tuenti Challenge, This year we are bringing you a new edition called Code Challenge.
7 days; 20 challenges focusing on algorithmics, reversing and security; You can win fantastic prizes, have fun solving challenging problems, and even get a job in one of the leading companies in the technology sector.!. This contest is ideal for anyone who likes programming, Come and take part!

Registration period: 22 November - 20 December 2021

Period of participation: 13 December - 20 December 2021

Awards
1st prize : One Plus 9
2nd prize: Nintendo Switch
3rd prize: Amazfit GTR 3
4th to 10th: Amazon gift voucher for 50€.

More information and terms and conditions can be found at https://oicampus.telefonica.com/proyecto/code-challenge

Talentum Telefónica: Telefónica's platform for promoting young talent

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Talentum is the platform of Telefónica's drive for young talent, a programme that provides opportunities for young people through its extensive youth scholarships, training and team challenges. These scholarships are aimed at recent graduates and students living in Spain. Both students and recent graduates, can do an internship at Telefónica. It is a scholarship programme where they will be able to start developing their skills in projects relevant to the company.

 

Since 2012, more than 3,500 Talentum scholarships in its different modalities. Throughout this year, Talentum will distribute around 500 scholarships through the different modalities of the programme, in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada and Valladolid, among others. The call for applications is currently open Telefónica Globa Scholarships until 30 November.

To find out more about Talentum the call for proposals you can visit:  https://talentumtelefonica.com/