'Desaf-IA', a competition to find solutions to social and environmental challenges with the help of artificial intelligence, is established

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Aimed at students and alumni, it will be held on March 13 in the morning at the Plaça Cívica. Participants will work in teams to devise projects in favor of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); they will do so following the design thinking methodology and with the help of various AI tools. An expert jury will choose four winning teams, which will win 30 euro vouchers to spend at Abacus. Registration is now open on the NEXUS application.

13/02/2024

The world has social and environmental challenges and UAB wants to be part of the solution. That's why it has proposed that its students and alumni use artificial intelligence to devise projects that respond to them. This is the premise of Desaf-IA, a new competition organized by the Entrepreneurship Unit of the UAB Employability Service.

The event will take place on March 13th, Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the study room of the RR building, in Plaça Cívica (above the bar). It is conceived as an idea generation workshop in which people will be grouped into multidisciplinary teams, with members from different Faculties and Schools, to exercise their creativity and find solutions to the challenges posed.

Pedro Olivares, a coach specializing in leadership, will guide the session following the design thinking methodology. In addition, the competing groups will have to use various artificial intelligence tools that will be very useful in the ideation process of their projects, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity or Bard.

The two challenges

The challenges to be launched by UAB are two and are based on two SDGs:

  • Gender equality.
  • Clean water and sanitation.

Thus, the organization will present to the participants one of the main existing social challenges and, in addition, will put on the table an environmental challenge closely linked to the drought suffered by Catalonia.

At the end of the morning, the teams will pitch their project and an expert jury will select four winning teams, two for each challenge, based on the level of creativity, feasibility and impact of their proposals. All team members will receive a 30 euro voucher to spend at Abacus.

Registration for the event is individual and free through the NEXUS application.