MOTIVEM is an initiative of the Universitat de València that supports university teaching staff who encourages creativity among students, coordinating the development of team ideas to improve their employability.
The awards ceremony, wich was held last May 10, was presided over by María Vicenta Mestre, Vice-Principal for Teaching Staff, Academic Planning and Sustainability, with Alonso Maldonado, ADEIT’s President; Francisco Álvarez, director of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Cooperativism of the Valencian Government; Carlos Pascual, President of the Chair for Business Culture and Fernando Corell, director of the Institution Centre of CaixaBank in the Valencian Community.
Regarding the awards ceremony, María Isabel Muela, student of the Degree in Electronic Engineering of Telecommunications at the ETSE-UV, is a member of the team that has won the second prize, worth 3.000 euros. They achieved the second position with the project Moovify, a mobile application to ease the touristic practice to people with special needs, which offers personalised information according to its characteristics. This idea, coordinated by Beatriz Cerezo, professor of the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication, has been developed by students of different fields.
On the other hand, three students of the Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering of the ETSE-UV, Robert Benavent Varela, Marta Bofí Marco and Laura Gómez Alonso, developed the project Fastbone along with other students from the Faculty of Biological Sciences and the Faculty of Economics (Alma Martínez Micó and Alberto El Nagar Giménez) and coordinated by professor José David Badía Valiente of the ETSE-UV.
FASTBONE is a treatment that consists of an injection system to fix bone injuries through the combination of a biocompatible polymer along with hydroxyapatite. The restorative solution is introduced in a bone injection gun and, then, it is inserted it in the bone break or fracture. This way, a replica of the fractured part of the bone is generated, allowing it to behave as usual in record time. FASTBONE could benefit occupationally active people, elite athletes, elderly and people with degenerative bone diseases.
FASTBONE is the reinvention of REGGSTORE, the innovation project in chemical engineering developed within the framework of the subject of Integral Management of Quality, Safety and Innovation of the Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering of the Universitat de València, in the 2nd Conference of IQ -Innovation of the ETSE, in which they also obtained the prize, ex aequo with SIPHOCEL, of Best Innovation Project in Chemical Engineering. This activity is part of the development results of a teaching innovation project of the Universitat de València, IDIQ-YOIQINNOVO: Development of innovation, creativity and technological entrepreneurship through project-based learning and reverse classroom, with reference UV-SFPIE_RMD16-415615.
The ceremony was attended by Paula Marzal, Head of the School of Engineering, Vicente Martínez Soria, director of the Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, José Manuel Pastor, dean of the Faculty of Economics and Javier LLuch, vicedean of the Faculty of Biological Sciences, among other authorities and professors.
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