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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/

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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

 

 

Telefónica presents eight 5G pilot use cases in Málaga

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  • Telefónica presents five use cases with the Malaga Police for more efficient urban mobility management, based on 5G technology.
  • At the University of Malaga, three other use cases have been developed to offer students immersive educational experiences and remote access to laboratory equipment.

 

University of Malaga: the future of education thanks to 5G: Telefónica is working with teachers at the University of Malaga (UMA) in the development of advanced education technology tools that use Virtual Reality and the virtualisation of physical devices. With these proposals, they will offer their students immersive educational experiences and access to laboratory equipment remotely with a user experience as if they were working with that equipment physically inside the university's laboratories, facilitating remote access for students to educational resources in the current pandemic situation and improving the educational experience with the application of the latest technologies. One of the three 5G-based use cases that have been carried out with the Virtual Teaching Service and the UMA Institute of Technology and Software Engineering has consisted of the use of a virtual world to facilitate online teaching between students and teachers where they can interact and where the teacher can make use of audiovisual resources to teach their subjects. The computer system used is Opensimulator, which allows the interaction of avatars in a 3D virtual world.

For more information, please visit https://www.telefonica.com/es/sala-comunicacion/telefonica-presenta-ocho-casos-de-uso-de-pilotos-5g-en-malaga/

Campus 42, a different kind of digital education comes to Malaga

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This is a clear commitment of the Malaga and Andalusian institutions to training, and as the Mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, emphasised, it is very dear to the city.

With the opening this past April of the Campus 42 in Malaga, In the last four programming campuses on Spanish territory of the Telefónica Foundation, based on a different way of learning, where the digital education opens up to young people as a great door to focus their future on programming, cybersecurity, software engineering or video game development.

The campuses of Madrid, Urduliz (Bizkaia) y Barcelona had already shown all the possibilities that a challenging project-based methodology allows. following the network Network 42, The network consists of 36 campuses located in 23 countries. A collaboration that began in 2019 and that continues to grow.

It is a pioneering method in the world, the pillars of which are the free of charge, the attendance, where no books, no classes, no prior knowledge or qualifications are required.

For more information visit: https://www.telefonica.com/es/sala-comunicacion/blog/campus-42-llega-a-malaga/

 

 

TALENTUM-TELEFÓNICA SCHOLARSHIPS 2022

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¡140 1TP5Scholarships for the promotion of 1TP5Youngtalent (recent graduates based in #Espain)!

You can find the terms and conditions of the call and further information of interest at the following link: https://www.fundacionsepi.es/becas/talentum-fsepi.asp (which you can also access by scanning the #QR in the image below).

Applications are open until Wednesday 30 November 2022 (there is a form for those who are still studying and/or whose degree is not among those in demand). Interviews will be held in MADRID, possibly telematically.

LUCKY LUCK!

 

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

 

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).

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