Xàbia girls in Technovation
Challenge regional final
Students
from
the
María
Inmaculada School visited mayor
José Chulvi in April to speak
about their involvement in the
regional final of the Technovation
Challenge, a initiative promoted
by the non-profit company
Iridescent which offers girls world-
wide the necessary training to be
enterprising and technological
leaders. Under the guidance of
their IT teacher, the students have
developed two different projects
with corresponding business plans
and mobile app technology. One
is focused on the environment,
specifically on the promotion of
recycling, whilst the other attends
to a social need by addressing the
problem of loneliness amongst
the elderly. The girls will be
presenting their ideas before a
jury at the Universidad Politécnica
and will be amongst some 450
students in the territorial final. If
they pass on to the national phase
of the competition, they will be
required to present their projects
in English. From: Javeamigos
For more about Technovation
see:Iridescent technovation.
Xàbia “RADARS” project to
fight loneliness among the
elderly
RADARS Project is the community
programme through which Xàbia
seeks to fight against the loneliness
amongst the elderly. The objective
is for everyone to take an active
role and act as ‘radars’ to detect
such situations that lead to
loneliness and warn the council
who will seek resources to promote
conditions of well-being, dignity
and security. It was launched
last December and has been very
well received. The councillor
said it had received information
from people who could be in a