Second prize in Telefónica's HackForGood

A team made up of four students from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has won the second HackForGood award organized by the Telefónica Chairs Network and in which more than a thousand young people from twenty-four Spanish universities have participated. The project with which the UCLM participated consists of an accessible digital platform to improve mental health.

The students of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) Daniel Iradier, Juan Cano, David Ortega and Ayan Mameyev have been awarded second prize in the HackForGood contest of the Telefónica Network of Chairs with their project Depresus, an accessible digital platform designed for improve people's mental health. 

The four members of the team are students from the Polytechnic School of Cuenca and collaborators from the R&D&I Laboratory of the Telefónica Chair at the Institute of Technology, Construction and Telecommunications, and they obtained this recognition in the latest edition of the contest in which They have competed with students from twenty-four Spanish universities in the challenge of developing technological challenges for social purposes. It so happens that the same team achieved first place in the competition in its edition last year.

Professor Miguel Ángel Redondo from the Higher School of Informatics directs the UCLM Chair with Telefónica and has as members of his team Professor Ana Isabel Molina also from the Higher School of Informatics, Professor Jorge Mateo from the Polytechnic School of Cuenca and with Professor Yoel Arroyo from the Faculty of Social Sciences of Talavera de la Reina. More information about the activities of this Chair can be found on his blog (https://blog.uclm.es/telefonica/).