Disabled students

Project AUXILIA brought together the Foundation (at the time the Digital Youth Consortium), universities and municipalities into a European partnership united by the challenge of e-inclusion for disable students.

For details of partnership and project, visit: http://auxilia.e-inclusionsite.org/

AUXILIA was coordinated by the Foundation and run in the framework of the European Socrates Programme (Joint Actions) from 2003 to 2005 It aimed at piloting the use of robotics technology for students with severe motor disabilities, seeking concrete responses to the huge challenge of integration of young disabled students in education.

The Scuola Sant Anna di Pisa contributed the robotic technology used in the final pilot and the robots remained with the schools at the end of the pilot.

Following project Auxilia, the DYC promoted an official agreement between the Municipality of Rome, Scuola Sant Anna, Campus Biomedico and the DYC with the aim of stimulating the diffusion of assistive technology for the e-inclusion of disable students in schools. The agreement was signed on occasion of the Global Junior Challenge 2004 by leading authorities of all the parties to the agreement.