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HortiHouse wins HackForGood Big Day with smart greenhouses

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HortiHouse, the University of Vigo Student Project, Triumphs in HackForGood Big Day 2023

The innovative application for managing smart greenhouses in homes, created by María Cabrero and Jesús Valverde, students at the University of Vigo, has won first place in the HackForGood Big Day 2023 Awards. This tool not only monitors all aspects of the crop, but also has specific programmes adapted to the different stages of plant growth. The original idea was recognised at the VIII HackForGood Hackathon, an event held by the Telefónica Chair at the University of Vigo last October, where they won first prize. This allowed them to represent their university in the national edition of the competition, where they competed against projects from 24 Spanish universities. The event was held at 42 Madrid, located in Distrito Telefónica, where the best teams from each venue of this year's hackathon were presented.

HackForGood, in its eighth edition and organised by the Telefónica Chairs Network, saw more than 1,000 young people tackling various technological challenges with a social focus. As for the other awards, second place went to «Depresu» from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, a platform dedicated to mental health. Third place went to «E-Lab» from the University of Salamanca, which focuses on interactive and immersive educational experiences. The teams had the opportunity to present their projects through an «Elevator Pitch», followed by a video summary. The evaluation criteria was based on a 60% for the presentation and a 40% for the business plan.

The cash prizes for the first three places are 5,500, 2,000 and 1,000 euros, respectively. In addition, they will have a prominent presence in the Telefónica Chairs Network events at the “Telefónica Centenary” next year. Among those attending the award ceremony were Nicolás Oriol, Antonio Bengoa and Inés Temes, representing Telefónica España and 42 España. The HackForGood initiative, supported by the Telefónica Chairs Network and other partners, aims to highlight the vital role of youth in building a sustainable, digital and equitable future, with a focus on leaving no one behind.

 

For more information, please visit https://www.telefonica.es/es/sala-comunicacion/prensa/hortihouse-gana-el-hackforgood-big-day-con-sus-invernaderos-inteligentes/

NASA brings the world's biggest hackathon to Malaga: the ‘Space Apps Challenge’.‘

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The digital transformation of the art world. Meeting with Harald Klinke

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Digital art historian Harald Klinke visits our auditorium to talk about imagination and image in times of artificial intelligence.

The digital transformation we are undergoing applies to all areas of our lives, including the images we perceive. The digital art historian Harald Klinke visits our auditorium to talk about imagination and image in times of artificial intelligence.

Technological innovation has always had an impact on art and, consequently, art history is increasingly using digital methods to observe and analyse these developments.

Big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence challenge the notion of the artist, creativity and the way we think about art. Harald Klinke's work introduces us to the latest technologies applied to image generation, their consequences for artists and for our collective visual memory.

Transformation models such as Dall-e 2 are machine learning models (machine-learning) to generate digital images from natural language descriptions based on millions of images on the web. These new visual phenomena have recently been the subject of much debate on social media, raising questions about the nature of such images and the role of artificial intelligence in art: How can we understand this new phenomenon in a historical context? What does it mean for our human perception? More to the point: What then is the future of art?

To discuss these issues, Harald Klinke will talk with Javier Navarro, Director of Strategy for the SOLO Art Collection, in a meeting moderated by researcher and curator María Santoyo.

To attend this meeting in person, book your free ticket on this page. Access will be allowed until full capacity is reached.

This meeting will have simultaneous translation, will be interpreted into LSE and can be followed at streaming openly on this website and on social networks with the hashtag #HaraldKlinke.

You can follow the event live, starting at 19:00h..:

 

 

Harald Klinke (@HxxxKxxx)

Professor of Digital Art History at LMU Munich, Germany. He studied art history, media theory, painting, philosophy and business informatics in Karlsruhe, Berlin, Göttingen and Norwich (UK), obtaining his PhD at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. From 2008 to 2009, he worked as a lecturer in visual studies (Bildwissenschaft) at the Department of Art History at the University of Göttingen, where he developed «Visual Literacy». From 2009 to 2010, he conducted research, supported by the German Research Foundation, as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Art History and a member of the DFG Focus Program Committee ‘....‘The Digital Image‘. In 2021 he completed his habilitation at the LMU Munich with the thesis ‘.‘Interfaces, Interactions and Infrastructures. Image-based application systems for art history and digital humanities and is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Digital Art History.

RCT - III International Hackathon on Digital Education - Hack4Edu

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The 3rd edition of #hack4edu (international digital education hackathon) will take place from 22 to 25 November 2022 and is open to anyone involved in programming, computer science, telecommunications, education, pedagogy.

#hack4edu is an international initiative, so people from anywhere in the world can participate. Proposals will be accepted in Spanish and Portuguese.

The objective for Telefónica Chair universities is to disseminate the event and encourage their students to participate. Among the novelties, this year the best projects will be published in an international conference, as lecture notes by Springer.

Deadlines:

Challenges/projects to be developed can be submitted until the 21st.
Hackers can register until 18 November.

More information and registration at http://hack4edu.org/

Here is the Hack4edu 2022 programme:

 

SailGp and Telefónica España support the 5G SA drone relay of the event

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This weekend, the Bay will witness the first ever retransmission of the world of a SailGP event with drones 5G SA thanks to Telefónica Spain's collaboration with SailGP.

Specifically, three professional drones (DJI Matrice 300, Mavic 3 Cine and a fast FPV drone capable of flying at 100 kilometres per hour) equipped with 5G SA connectivity will closely follow the world's fastest catamarans.

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.diariodecadiz.es/cadiz/SailGP-Cadiz_0_1723028699.html

 

 

From idea to product“ competition: an initiative promoted by Telefónica, the Andalusian Regional Government and the University of Malaga.

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This competition, promoted by Telefónica, the Andalusian Regional Government and the University of Malaga, aims to support the university community in this way in the technological transformation of their idea and turn it into a business opportunity. The project has a budget of 415,000 euros and its aim is to «identify innovative technology-based business ideas» presented by students from Andalusian universities. The deadline for submitting proposals will be open until 18 March.

The programme will have two calls, the first one coinciding with the current academic year and the second one will be activated with the next academic year. Once the training, which will last four months, has been completed, a committee at each university will choose the two projects with the greatest potential to turn their idea into a business option. For the current edition, each of the ten universities will carry out an initial pre-selection process, with a maximum of 50 students. These students will receive training from experts on enabling technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence or Big Data, and specialised sessions in the business field on legal, legal or financial issues.

What will it bring you? Tools that will help you launch and accelerate your business project.

Training

In the first phase of the competition, you will have access to sessions of technological training in virtual format, led by Telefónica experts; in addition to training that will help you develop your business idea, with content based on the Lean Canvas Model, market research and segmentation, communication and marketing.

Mentoring

Once the training has been completed, a final selection of a maximum of 2 projects will be made, which will go on to the second phase. mentoring phase.

Prize

Finally, you can earn up to 5.000€ for the development of the project as MVP (minimum viable product).

REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION

  • Be enrolled in the 2021-22 academic year in official or UMA-specific degrees (bachelor's, master's, postgraduate or doctorate).
  • Or accredit that they belong to the teaching and research staff or administration and services staff of the University of Malaga.

Fill in the registration form (at the top of this website) and send it completed to the e-mail address: idea-producto@uma.es

 

All the information (rules and registration form) can be found at the following link: http://www.link.uma.es/deideaaproducto/

If you want to know more about the initiative visit https://www.diariosur.es/tecnologia/programa-emprendimiento-junta-andalucia-telefonica-20220216114800-nt.html

 

 

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

 

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. 

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