2025/2026 Responsible STEM Awards from the UOC - VASS Foundation Chair in Digital Transformation without Barriers: Employability and Inclusion
The UOC - VASS Foundation Chair in Digital Transformation without Barriers: Employability and Inclusion invites applications for its awards for bachelor's degree final projects and work done in master's degree or postgraduate programmes at the UOC's Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications that have contributed to improving the living conditions of people with disabilities. The awards focus on breaking down barriers through the use of technology, making technological products and services more accessible, and improving the living conditions of people with disabilities, so they can fully enjoy their rights (health, education, access to housing, leisure, etc.) in order to improve the employability of this group.
Deadline for entries: 15 July 2026.
Students and alumni (graduates) who have defended and passed their final project in a bachelor's degree, master's degree or postgraduate programme at the UOC's Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications are eligible for the awards. The projects, which must be original and unpublished, must have been awarded a final grade equal to or higher than eight out of ten.
There are two prizes, each worth €1,000.
The Responsible STEM Awards are part of the activities planned to achieve the Chair's development objectives, promoting entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer through research and innovation projects, such as, in this case, bachelor's and master's degree final projects. They are aimed at work carried out in the scientific-technical field whose content could lead to an improvement in the living conditions of people with disabilities, more accessible technological products and services or helping disabled people be more employable.
Candidates for either of the prizes referred to in these rules must:
1) Complete the application form
2) The ten finalists will receive a notification and will have to submit a short video, explaining why their project should be the winner, to the following address: becascorporativas@uoc.edu.
Deadline for entries: 15 July 2026. (All work submitted must be published in open access in the UOC's O2 repository.)
Announcement of winners: September 2026.
The legal terms and conditions for the awards are published on the UOC's E-Services Portal noticeboard.
In the event of any discrepancy, the information contained in the call for applications published on the e-Noticeboard will be considered binding.