Sanbery Cam has won the first MOTIVEM Award in his third edition. These awards, in which 92 teams coordinated by teaching staff of the Universitat have taken part, have allowed to develop enterprising ideas from the lecture rooms. The MOTIVEM Awards are included in the activities of the Chair for Business Culture of the Universitat de València, and they have the support of the Valencian Government and Caixabank.
Alberto Pérez, student of the degree in Nursing; David Olmos, from degree in Optics and Optometry; and Luis Miguel Gil, from the degree in Telecommunications Electronic Engineering, lead this idea which has been coordinated by the professors from the Department in Nursing Antonio Martínez and José Vicente Visconti.
The winning project, which has been awarded with 4.000 euros, consists of a device that is able, through a photography, of analysing, evaluating and quantifying the status of pathologies such as ulcers, burns, strabismus, cataract and uveitis, improving this way the tracking of the patients.
Travelling together and virtual reality in heritage, second and third award
The second award, worth 3.000 euros, has been given to Caruniv which consists in a service for university students and professors to publish the routes that they cover to go to the Universitat and, therefore, to reduce costs, as well as social interaction among the users. This project, coordinated by the professor of the Department of Applied Economics Antonia Sajardo, has been developed by students of the degree in Social Work Cristina González-Madroño and Andrea Rivas, and from the degree in Law Miguel Ángel Sancho.
Rvive is the winning project of the third award og this edition of the MOTIVEM Awards, with 2.000 euros. The students of the Degree in Preschool Education and in Primary School Education Manuel Blasco, Álvaro Morales and Isabel Rodríguez are in charge of this project, coordinated with the professor of the Department of Language and Literature Teaching Héctor Hernández, which aim is to improve the significant learning in different knowledge areas and/or patrimonial and cultural interventions through virtual reality.
The other seven finalists have been La sombra del árbol; Celulosa 2.0; Jellyking, Extremofilm; Celiart; Actúa; and Wallet Band, all of them awarded with 1.000 euros each.
Team work, the essence of the MOTIVEM Awards
The award ceremony has been chaired by the Principal of the Universitat de València, Esteban Morcillo, who has emphasised on the innovating capacity of the presented projects. For its part, the Cierval president, José Vicente González, has valued the opportunity of working in teams that the MOTIVEM Awards offer, ‘no one can do anything all alone’, and he has encouraged students to entrepreneur. ‘This Community needs people like you’, has emphasised González.
In this sense, the president of the Chair for Business Culture of the Universitat de València Carlos Pascual has intervened, highlighting the importance of this chair for injecting the entrepreneur spirit among the students of the Universitat de València. On the part of the Administration, the general director of the University, Research and Science of the Valencian Government, Josefina Buena, has concluded that from the MOTIVEM Awards she takes innovation, transversality and creativity ‘things that society strongly needs’. The awards ceremony has also been supported by the director of the institutions centre of Caixabank, Fernando Corell, who has highlighted the bravery of entrepreneurs.
Last update: 12 de may de 2016 08:59.
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