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14 February 2017 – 10 am
Public act of subscription to the Letter of Commitment between the Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality – Dr.ª Catarina Marcelino and the MDM – Democratic Women’s Movement, which will be attended by the University of Aveiro dean , Professor Dr. Manuel António Assunção
The UNLOVE / UNPOP Project aims to promote a culture of equality between boys and girls and awareness of non-violence in dating, using innovative information and communication technologies.
Dr.ª Ana Margarida Almeida, researcher from DigiMedia Research Unit., is the project coordinator.
University of Aveiro – Amphitheater of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
23 – 24 September 2016
Our goal is to gather talented designers and front-end developers from all over the globe in one event, bridging these two worlds and engaging them to share their experiences and their stories
With a lineup that covers a wide range of subjects, from UX to Accessibility and Project Management, Mirror Conf is the place to be for those who shape the web every day. Held by Gen Design Studio and Subvisual, two companies with over 10 years of combined web experience, you can be certain that Mirror Conf is being carefully thought out and curated.Our goal is to have developers and designers share their input about the industry, in a conversational, laid-back environment.
More information: http://mirrorconf.com/practical-details/
Auditório Vita, Braga.
22-23 June 2017
SLERD 2017 aims at promoting reflection and discussion concerning R&D work, policies, case studies, entrepreneur experiences with a special focus on understanding how relevant are the smart learning ecosystems (schools, campus, working places, informal learning contexts, etc.) for regional development and social innovation and how the effectiveness of the relation of citizens and smart ecosystems can be boosted. This forum has a special interest in understanding how technology mediated instruments can foster the citizen’s engagement with learning ecosystems and territories, namely by understanding innovative human-centric design and development models/techniques, education/training practices, informal social learning, innovative citizen-driven policies, technology mediated experiences and their impact. This set of concerns will contribute to foster the social innovation sectors and ICT and economic development and deployment strategies alongside new policies for smarter proactive citizens.
More information: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/index.php?s=232
University of Aveiro
December 1-3
Welcome to TISHW, the 1st International Conference on Technology and Innovation is Sports, Health and Wellbeing. TISHW will take place in December 1-3, 2016 at University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal. TISHW 2016 is co-located with DSAI 2016
Sports, Health and Wellbeing play a crucial role in our lives. More than that, Sports and Wellbeing means Health. In this 21st century, these three areas cannot work without technology and innovation. Smartphone or wearables are two of so many products that increase the way that we made sports or live a better life. To live we need to maintain a healthy life, with a regular sport habits. This is one of the most important fields of research and work of our time.
More information: http://www.tishw.ws/2016/
University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real
POTI – Personal Objects as Tangible Interfaces
Personal Objects as Tangible Interfaces (POTI) is a technology that aims to convert everyday objects and actions into interfaces in the digital world.
At the heart of POTI technology are small electronic tags consisting of motion, sound and light sensors that, when integrated into everyday objects, are capable of recognizing the gestures the user engages in interacting with them on a daily basis. The user from a simple smartphone application can configure labels, via WIFI.
The objective of this project is to develop and evaluate a MVP (Minimum Valuable Product) consisting of two electronic tags and an application, mobile in which the user personalizes the use scenario.
March 2017 – March 2018
Project Grant: Private – Altice Labs
Funding Value: 20000€
NMDE
Mário Vairinhos (IR), Óscar Mealha (Co-IR), José Nunes e Patrícia Oliveira
UNLOVE/UNPOP
The main objective of this project is to develop a digital game aiming the prevention and awareness of dating violence, exploring digital media potential in diverse fields, which calls for a collaborative effort, the project crosses different areas, namely: (i) game design, development and evaluation; (ii) e-health; (iii) and digital media impact in social, educational and cultural contexts.
More info about Unlove/Unpop available at: [1]
February 2017 – August 2018
Project Grant : Public National – Secretaria de Estado da Igualdade
Funding Value: 20 500 € (Global funding); 2500 € (Digimedia)
KMCC
Ana Margarida Almeida (Main Researcher – Digimedia)
Minorities as opportunity and occasion for chrysalis
Project aimed to develop online and offline tools for intercultural education in multicultural professional environments. Trainings, seminar and job shadowings. The problem we see is related not only to migrants and intercultural-ethnic reality of Europe, but to the development of “fear of difference” and “refusal of difference” raising in different context in Europe. We want develop such a material with the characteristic of a Massive Open Online Course gathering together materials from different sources (video, books, training material) and to be made available for different kind of workers.
January 2017 – December 2018
Project Grant: Public International – ERASMUS+ (KA2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices Strategic Partnerships for youth
Funding Value: 210.000 €
MCC
Massimiliano Greco (Project coordinator)
Vania Baldi (Main Researcher)
Application for the elderly to ask for help from volunteers
This project aims to develop a television application that allows older people, in a simple and quick way, to ask a group of volunteers for support in specific tasks such as small domestic repairs or accompany in a visit to the doctor. It is intended that the application, currently under development, allows that certain actions, such as making a request to a volunteer, can also be performed by voice.
January 2017 – September 2017
Project Grant – Private – AlticeLabs@UA
Funding Value: 9724 €
KMCC
Rita Santos (Project Coordinator) – Digimedia/ESTGA-UA
Ana Isabel Martins (Team Member ) – IEETA/DCM
Ciro Martins (Team Member ) – IEETA/ESTGA-UA
Hilma Caravau (Team Member ) – Associação Nacional de Gerontólogos
João Moura (Team Member) – DECA
Mário Rodrigues (Team Member) – IEETA/ ESTGA-UA
Pedro Miguel (Team Member) – DETI
Tânia Ribeiro (Team Member) – DECA
Integrated and Intelligent Corporate Communication Platforms
The project aims to develop new product concepts (and their proofs of concept) that can induce a paradigm shift regarding the current practices of corporate ICT usage and their associated fragilities in terms of information management capabilities as well as traceable and structured communication activities.
This collaborative R&D project defines as its ultimate strategic objective the optimization of the human interaction and intuitive‐intelligent information management in the corporate contexts by the development of new info‐communicational tools that leverage the individual and collective performance of the organizations.
January 2017 – December 2019
Project Grant – Public National – Portugal 2020 – COMPETE2020;
Project Code: n. º 21949 Smart EnterCom;
Funding Value: 832 268,06 € (Global funding); 60 033,11€ (Digimedia)
KMCC
José Ferreira (Project Coordinator – Finesource/Wavecom)
Óscar Mealha (Main Researcher – Digimedia)
Carolina Félix Abrantes (Team Member)
Mathematics Learning Environment for Autistic
The project aims at the development of a set of training activities with both families and health and educational professionals in order to empower theses groups to better understand the Autism Spectrum Disorders, namely in what concerns math skills and considering he role of digital media in its promotion.
September 2016 – July 2017
Project Grant :Private National – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Funding Value: 9600 €
KMCC
Ana Breda, Departamento Matemática, Universidade Aveiro (Project Coordinator)
Ana Margarida Almeida (Team Member)
CeNTER-Community-led Networks for Regional Innovation
This project aims at identifying the policy tools, which best allow for the valorization of territorial resources in order to promote employment and quality of life in Centro Region. The main outcome of the project will be a proposal of a territorial innovation model led by community and powered by digital media, as well as an impact assessment framework that will foster the foundation of an Observatory for Human Capital and regional innovation performance in the University of Aveiro.
April 2017 – March 2021
Project Grant: Public National: Portugal 2020 – PO-centro
Funding Value: 1.200.000€
DigiMedia funding: 300.000€
KMCC
Fernando Ramos (DigiMedia Team leader and WP3 Coordinator)
Luís Pedro (Team Member)
Margarida Almeida (Team Member)
Maria João Antunes (Team Member)
Distance Education Quality Assurance Framework at the University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
The aim of this project is to provide technical support to the Distance Education Center of the University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique in the development of the Quality Assurance (QA) framework for Distance Education. The project includes the development of the conceptual aspects (QA indicators and standards) and of the QA procedures and instruments.
June 2016-December 2017
Project Grant: Private: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Funding Value: 17.900€
KMCC
Fernando Ramos (Project Coordinator)
