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Master in Technologies for Supporting Personal Autonomy
Inter-University Official Master of 1,500 hours.
- Starting in: October 2009 .
- Ending in July 2011.
- The Lectures, Seminars and Visits will take place on Fridays.
- The Master will be offered in the Campus of Donostia and in that of Bilbao.
Characteristics of the students:
- technological (Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Electronics..)
- social (Pedagogy, Psychology, Social Work …)
- health professions (Nursing, Rehabilitation…)
CONTENTS
1.- Technologies applied
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Augmentative and Alternative Mobility
- Technology for supporting sensorial handicaps
- Smart environments, adapted transport
- Accessibility to remote services
2.- Users
- Needs and characteristics of persons with sensorial, physic or cognitive handicaps, elderly or dependent persons
- User needs and assessment of technology
- Movements of independent life
- Active Ageing
- Stakeholders implied
- Assessment from Medicine
- Social and working integration of handicapped persons
3.- Legislation, standards, guidelines and recommendations
- National and international laws concerning accessibility and support for independent life
- Guidelines for accessibility to constructions, urbanism, furniture and transport
- Ethical and social aspects of supporting technology
- Policies and resources for assistance
- Models of incorporation to ordinary companies
4.- Transverse Competences
- Teamwork, leadership,
- Oral and written communication
- Managerial initiatives in supporting technologies
- Research Methods in supporting technology
FIELDS FOR APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE
There are multiple fields for applying the competences and knowledge obtained in the MASTER, all of them in the encounter of the people’s needs and of the technologies supporting the same.
Private Sector
- Companies developing products/services for the public. Design of adapted products, specific services for certain groups, equipment for dwellings
- Technological Centres. Design of new solutions for the sectors of ageing, health, rehabilitation, prevention…
- Companies of the health sector. Adaptation of equipments, design of new services, application of technologies.
- Companies of services providing assistance. Management of technological resources, rendering of specialized services.
Public Sector
- Social and resource planning. Design of the plans for social and health assistance, organization of service units.
- Social assistance. Display of plans for supporting specific groups, technical and social advising, management of social and health programmes.
- Centres for supporting entrepreneurs. Identification of job opportunities, design of service models.
- Units for creating adapted jobs. Design of jobs, creation of advising units, new jobs.
ACADEMIC OUTLINE
Coordinating Professors
- Sabino Ayestarán (UPV/EHU)
- Javier Yanguas (Fundación Matía)
- José Ramón Apalategi (Grupo GUREAK)
- Karmele López de Ipiña (UPV/EHU)
- Nestor Garay (UPV/EHU)
- Julio Abascal (UPV/EHU)
Practices and Final Project in collaborating firms
A MASTER that is new and modern
- Because of its field of application (public – private)
- Because of the social and managerial needs it covers
- Because of the firms and companies recommending it
- Because of the teachers’ capacities and experience
- Because of its links with social innovation