The two-week INNOSID project workshop, on the theme of social inclusion for people with disabilities, has now finished. The workshop took place in Dubrovnik, from 13 - 24th September 2021. Students from four European countries (Hungary, Croatia, Spain and Portugal), participated in all of the activities which aimed to help students get to know each other, and to learn about new technologies and social inclusion.
The workshop kicked off with an introductory presentation and welcome message from the project coordinator, Jurica Babić. Two language and international culture experts from IMT Atlantique Brest, France, Catherine Sablé and Alison Gourvès-Hayward got the ball rolling with their interactive lecture entitled Soft Skills for Social Inclusion – an intercultural Approach. This workshop focused on empathy, adaptive communication and intercultural decentering.
The day concluded with a multicultural and gastronomic evening event.
The seminar continued with lectures and practical workshops on social inclusion and new technologies: important facts about social inclusion (Rui Manuel Pereira Lopes &Rosa Maria Leandro de Oliveira, experts from the University of Santarem, Portugal), the lifecycle of software ( Željka Car &Jurica Babić, University of Zagreb), augmented reality and its applications (Matea Žilak, University of Zagreb), Robots for reconnecting neurones (Krunoslav Žubrinić, university of Dubrovnik). And finally, 3D printing techniques (Marianna Zichar and Ildiko Papp, University of Debrecen) and holography were also on the agenda(Ana Kešelj, university of Dubrovnik).
Students presented prototypes they had been working on since April 2021, firstly online and then upon arrival in Dubrovnik.
by Rebecca CLAYTON BERNARD
