On Wednesday, November 13, the project was presented at Espaitec UJI.>LAB. The manager of the General Foundation of the Jaume I University and project manager, Juan Antonio Bertolin, together with the project technician UJI.>LAB, Francisco Martinez, and the president of the university association hackerspace, Francisco Sayas. The presentation of the project UJI.>LAB has been addressed to the entire university community, giving importance to the function of the FabLabs as important work spaces within the project; since in these creation spaces a methodology will be carried out that allows the creation of various prototypes proposed by the teaching staff and students of the UJI mainly, thus moving from theory to practice. It was possible to know in depth the scope of action, since through Final Degree Projects (TFMs) and Master's Final Projects (TFMs), multidisciplinary solutions can be created that will provide solutions to the challenges proposed. The project UJI.>LAB It is essentially a creative project, born from the need to design technological-based solutions to the different challenges that society demands. This project is linked to the cooperative methodology LivingLab (Quadruple Helix Framework: Industry, Government, University and Society), which encourages European Network of LivingLabs (ENOLL), of which Espaitec has been part of its board of directors since 2011. Regarding the FabLab, its main mission is to convert ideas into real prototypes that can be used by society, therefore tangible solutions are sought that can be developed in future startups. To achieve this, a significant investment has been made in state-of-the-art machinery such as: This purchase of cutting-edge machinery has been thanks to the subsidy obtained from IVACE. The FabLab of the Universitat Jaume I It will be created with the purpose of being able to develop projects and ideas through the free use of the equipment by the university community. An important part of the project UJI.>LAB It is training, especially in the management and use of machinery, which is why various training courses will be developed; The first course scheduled is for 3D printing machines. This course will be taught, thanks to the selfless collaboration of the university association hackerspace. It has also been highlighted that the project UJI.>LAB will soon have a web platform with a powerful database for the creation, resolution and validation of the challenges posed in the TFGs y TFMs by multidisciplinary teams belonging to the university community.
Co-creation FabLab Living lab TFG TFM
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