The Orientatech project of the Fundación de Tecnologías Sociales - TECSOS has risen, along with two respective projects of the Don Bosco Foundation and Gades Technologies with the I Magtel Foundation Awards "To want to innovate for a better world".
Fundación Magtel has recognized with these awards the work of these three projects among the 48 initiatives submitted to the contest.
The call for the 3.000st Fundación Magtel Awards has been organized around three categories: social innovation, technological innovation and social and labor insertion. In each one of them a prize endowed with XNUMX euros and a commemorative distinction designed by the Cordovan architect and artist Juan Cuenca is established.
The I Magtel Foundation Award for Social Innovation has been awarded to the "Orientatech" project of the Tecsos Foundation, an organization promoted by the Spanish Red Cross and the Vodafone Spain Foundation. Through "Orientatech", Tecsos offers advice and evaluation on social technologies that promote personal autonomy, health, mobility, vision and hearing, and safety. Its objective is to contribute to transforming the lives of people in a situation of dependency, family members and caregivers through the publication of verified and compared information on the products that best suit their needs. Thanks to this work, "Orientatech" was selected as the representative project of Spain at the International Conference on Population Aging held last year in Lisbon.
On the other hand, the 2.400st Fundación Magtel Prize for Social and Labor Insertion has been awarded to "Itineraries for Social and Labor Insertion" of the Don Bosco Foundation, a project through which the institution works on the training, employability and development of minors and young people in a situation or risk of social exclusion. Within the framework of this program, the Don Bosco Foundation has served more than 760 people, has promoted the improvement of the qualifications of more than 800 and has achieved the job placement of nearly XNUMX.
Lastly, the Cádiz firm Gades Technology has received the XNUMXst Magtel Foundation Award for Technological Innovation for its “Gadea” project, which proposes the development of an electronic card for flexible and efficient energy management in smart grid environments. Among other innovative elements, the creation allows the development of research and prototypes to a wide public thanks to its free software and controls its own energy consumption with different possibilities of feeding and even energy harvesting.
The 250st Fundación Magtel Awards ceremony was held at the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Córdoba with the assistance of the President of the Magtel Foundation, Auxiliadora López Magdaleno; the Mayor of Córdoba, Isabel Ambrosio; the Government Delegate of the Junta de Andalucía, Esther Ruiz; the Rector of the University of Córdoba, José Carlos Gómez Villamandos; the Vice President of the Provincial Council of Córdoba, Salvador Blanco; and more than XNUMX representatives of public administrations, business organizations, foundations and associations, the media, etc.
In her speech, the President of the Foundation highlighted "the high level of the projects presented and the difficult task of the Jury to select the winners" and thanked all the participating entities and individuals "for their commitment to innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial capacity”.
