MIC-MAC: Media and Information Literacy Competence Training for Educators
MIC-MAC (Project 268745), funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the European University Institute’s European Media and Information Fund (EMIF), is focused on Media and Information Literacy for Citizens’ Empowerment. Its main goal is to address online disinformation in Europe and promote a more resilient fact-based digital information ecosystem. MIC-MAC accomplishes this by supporting educators who work with vulnerable groups to acquire the media and information literacy competences necessary in teaching and learning.
According to “Leading Equality Throughout Society” the European Commission Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025, gender equality is still far from being achieved.
Funded by the European Union, the project, “A Drone to Promote Equality on Political and Economic Decision Making” (Project 101086645 – ProPEGE), aims to define new strategies and tools to make advance equal leadership in decision-making positions in political and economic life of many EU member states.
A platform was developed that includes an interactive database of existing good practices, literature, and programs and legislation in EU countries for Equal Leadership. The catalogue enables users to search, analyse, share and even brainstorm about Equal Leadership with EquiBot, the AI GPT-powered chatbot.
MYSTIC: Mobilising Youth and Youth Service Talent through Immersive Co-Design
MYSTIC, funded by the European Union, is an experimental project that will develop, test and disseminate an innovative approach to training youth workers for a new role as ‘Community Animators’ and supporting vulnerable young people to become ‘Community Leaders’ through the MYSTIC Foundation Course.
MYSTIC’s main aim is to contribute to recent EU policy on recovery and sustainable growth by helping young people with fewer opportunities unlock their potential. This in turn means supporting youth organisations and youth workers to become more innovative.
Intimacy White – Interactive Fashion
Intimacy is a fashion project about the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech garments ‘Intimacy White’ and ‘Intimacy Black’ are made out of interactive technologies and smart e-foils which become transparent based on personal interactions. Here social interactions determine the level of transparency; creating a sensual play of disclosure.
In 2009, I joined Studio Roosegaarde as a Research and Development Engineer. Following my work in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) , I joined the studio as an expert in wireless communications with the purpose of introducing technologies and knowledge in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things. I designed a proprietary wireless sensor communication protocol focused in low power consumption, as well as fast and reliable data transmission.
Working with electronic and software engineers, I developed the designed protocol, choosing and interfacing the wireless chip as well as developing low level driver and communication layers in embedded C compatible with chosen PIC and ARM microprocessors.
I was project leader for Intimacy, the Studio Roosegaarde’s first project based on wireless sensor networks making use of the developed protocol. In collaboration with V2_Lab and the fashion designer Maartje Dijkstra, Intimacy connects the worlds of art, fashion and technology to build an interactive dress, a wearable piece of art that acts as an extension of the body providing new ways for social expression.
Intimacy was first publicly presented in December 2009 at V2’s Test_Lab: Intimate Interfaces. Studio Roosegaarde is a company created by the Dutch Artis Daan Roosegaarde in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which merges art and technology to create innovative and futuristic interactive artwork. The studio gathers a dynamic and multicultural R&D team merging knowledge and competencies in domains including architecture, industrial design, electronics and software engineering.
Strawberry Processing Machine (SPM)
The fruit and vegetable processing market is growing exponentially driven by the increasing demand of frozen products, juices and ready-to-use products. In this context, industries that process very sensitive fruits are facing great difficulties/ challenges to increase their competitiveness. Indeed, this segment is unable to fully benefit from the industrial technologies like automation and artificial vision – already used in other segments – to increase the productivity, the quality and the safety of the final product as well as working conditions. Attempts have been made for this purpose but solutions proposed until now are not enough automated resulting in low processing cadence and thus, high payback period of the machine. In order to address these concerns, Orizon Vision and AcessoMatic combined their skills, respectively in artificial vision and automation, to develop an innovative machine able to automatically manipulate and cut the green zone or calyx of at least 10-12 strawberries of all caliber per second. In this case, our artificial vision software will identify with precision by colour the cutting zone on the strawberry duplicating the processing cadence of existing solutions. By reaching first the strawberry market that increased 16% a year in the last 10 years, our goal is to expand this technology to the processing of other very delicate fruits or vegetables like persimmons, figs, peaches, etc. This innovation project constitutes a great opportunity for the participating companies, Orizon Vision and AcessoMatic, to develop a high value and disruptive solution which can reinforce their position in the market and increase their visibility around the world. For that purpose, we need to refined and matured our initial business plan. Hence, the feasibility study would significantly leverage our business proposition to reach the market and enhance the possibility of successfully applying to Phase 2 in the SME Instrument in order to demonstrate our machine.
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