An European partnership to experience and promote the use of robotics to help students facing serious motoric problems
The Auxilia project pooled the efforts of the Foundation (in its previous form of Consorzio Gioventù Digitale), universities, and municipalities in a European partnership to face the challenge posed by the need for the digital inclusion of diversely-enabled students.
The Auxilia project coordinated by the Foundation in the European Socrates Program (Joint Actions) from 2003 until 2005 focused on experimenting with robotics to help students facing serious motoric problems.
The project tackled the task of integrating diversely-enabled students in public schools. The Sant'Anna School in Pisa supplied the robot technology utilized in the final pilot phase, where the robots remained once the project was over.
Partner
- Consorzio Gioventù Digitale (leader)
- City of Stockholm
- Sant'Anna School of Pisa
- University of Valencia
- Biomedical Campus of Rome
- University of Edinburgh
At the end of the Auxilia project, the Foundation promoted an official agreement between the City of Rome, the Sant'Anna School, the Biomedical Campus, and FMD to stimulate the distribution of assistance technology for greater e-inclusion in schools with diversely-enabled students. The agreement was signed during the Global Junior Challenge 2004 by various authorities representing those involved (download the pdf).