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The president of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, today stressed the importance of new lines of research and technological advances that will develop in the new Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research for the Disabled (Cibid), "to improve the quality of life and promote social integration of these people, giving them greater autonomy through improvements in designs adapted. "
To do this, the chief executive of Murcia, announced during the inauguration of the new center located on the campus of the Hospital de La Caridad, Los Barreros (Cartagena), which "will be launched five specific units or research laboratories in areas of particular interest to the physical, as well as social integration of disabled people. "
The Center for Biomedical Engineering Research for the Integration of the Disabled has been promoted by the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the Guardianship Association of People with Intellectual Disabilities (Astus), in collaboration with the regional government for encouraging and promoting research activities, teaching, training and social awareness in the field of disability.
The Cibid born with the vocation determined to be an effective technology and innovation support for people with disabilities and the various associations in the Region.
Specifically, he said the president, "one of the most innovative of this center will be the industrial development and manufacture of prototypes arising from research, through which many disabled people can improve their social integration."
An example of this, he said Valcárcel, is the pioneer work in this center, among other facilities at its disposal, the Brain Computer Interface (BCI), which allows management more accessible to a computer through brain signals.
For the first time in the Region of Murcia, with the support of the Autonomous Community and Technical University of Cartagena, the center, through the Foundation for Applied Engineering studies for integration of the Disabled, has been implicated directly in the research and technological applications that serve to provide advice both to institutions or associations for the disabled, as companies in industries involved in the creation of designs specially adapted for the disabled.
A building of 1,100 square meters
The building that houses the Cibid has an area of 1,100 square meters, where are located the five research and development laboratories.
These five areas for action focus on the development of accessible software, evaluation and design, rehabilitation, assistive technology and autonomy, biosignal and biofeedback and workplace integration.
All in all, ensures that any technical novelty arising from these investigative units can reach the market and the various associations with low cost, with the precualidad also that such direct interaction among researchers with different associations and regional government will enable the integration of the disabled into the labor market.
In these lines of research also includes work done for the design and adaptation of equipment for the home and jobs, and an interesting projection in the teletrabjo for disabled and elderly.
Of facilitating the occupational integration, in a second phase of this project is scheduled to start in the same facilities opened today a Special Use, in which workers with different disabilities resulting from manufactured prototypes work researchers.
In this way, the culmination of the work done by teachers and researchers from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, and formerly of the University of Murcia, to carry out work in the field of assessment and recovery of functions and skills, as well as development of advanced techniques to aid social integration of disabled people, and systems for the autonomy and the accessibility of this group.
All these laboratories have been equipped by the Ministry of Education and Health with the most advanced biomedical instrumentation, which represents an investment of 115,035 euros.
Source: CARM
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