The different partners of the Empower project have held a follow-up meeting on March 27 and 28 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. During the meeting, the progress of all the work packages that compose the initiative have been reviewed and the steps to be taken in the coming months have been established.
«EMPOWER: Design and evaluation of technological support tools to empower stakeholders in digital education» aims to help students with neurodevelopmental conditions, who together with teachers, psychologists and developers will co-design this platform in which eye-tracking technologies will be used together with other sensors. In this sense, the project will design different training materials and carry out several scientific studies aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed solution.
The initiative's research team works with the hypothesis that executive functions and emotional self-regulation are key to educational inclusion and academic learning, so its objective is to develop a technological platform for the assessment and training of these skills.
The consortium is formed by the Universitat de València, which coordinates this action from IRTIC, along with the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania and the University Research Institute of Lisbon in Portugal, two research centres specialised in special education and psychology; as well as with the University of Stichting Radboud in the Netherlands, the Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering in Portugal, the Hogskulen pa vestlandet University in Norway and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, which are four university departments in the technological area specialising in artificial intelligence, eye-tracking and biosensors.
The company IT Data Telekom from Romania, in charge of the creation of training contents, also participates in the project. The association Autism-Europe, an organisation based in Brussels that gathers around a hundred organisations from more than 40 European countries, completes this consortium leading the dissemination of the project results.
The European Commission's Research Executive Agency (REA) co-funds the project through the Horizon Europe Programme, having been selected in the "Inclusion in times of change" call under the "Transformations" call of the programme.
Website of the project: https://project-empower.eu/
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