Espaitec has announced the final act of presentation of projects that has also included a speech by Margarita Albors, founder of Social Nest Foundation

A total of five interdisciplinary groups of university students have presented this morning the projects developed through the first edition of the program UJI Empren On Social, initiative to promote social and technological entrepreneurship at the Universitat Jaume I promoted by the Increa Chair i Espaitec, with the collaboration of SECOT Castelló. The participants of this first edition of the program come from the four faculties, which guarantee the transversality of the program.

After a lecture given by Margarita Albors, founder of Social Nest Foundation, who has highlighted the importance of creating social impact with profitable and sustainable business projects, has begun the presentation of projects, entrepreneurial ideas that donate solutions to social reptes proposed by the university community through the platform www.espaitec.uji.es/onsocial.

Eatopy This is the first project that has carried out the second presentation. Developed by Francisco Vidan, it consists of an effort to solve problems related to cases of allergies and food intolerances in an economical and safe way. Next, Joan Esteban Altabella took the turn with the project. GreenFlight, start-up that uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to preserve the forests, or in the case of areas degraded by fires, waste spills or the proliferation of pests, help to recover them. Martín Sánchez is the third to present his project MEITPRO (Mobile Emotional Intelligence Test), an interactive solution to improve the work environment and the productivity of the company through the evaluation and training of emotional intelligence in organizational environments.

No sense of the daily ració, presented by Andrea Lorenzo Xiva, follows the fourth project that has taken place, an initiative that aims to improve the current system of food donations and social integration of disadvantaged people. They have developed an action plan to raise awareness in society by designing a fluid and sustainable framework between society-supermarket-donation-social entity-beneficiary. Finally, Santiago Rosat i Orquín has presented Viaeticus, an accrediting entity that, through the creation of local segells, certifies, measures and controls the contribution to the sustainable local and global development of companies.

In the next stage of the program, entrepreneurs can establish contact with potential investors through the module https://espaitec.uji.es/onsocial/ecapital/ enable on the platform, a section aimed at individual investors, business angels, family office, or accelerators interested in identifying emerging companies with social and technological impact.

This program covers both the financing of the Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sports of the Generalitat Valenciana dins of the PPC18 line, entrepreneurial promotion.