'Desaf·IA' is born, a competition to find solutions to social and environmental challenges with the help of artificial intelligence

The world has social and environmental challenges and the UAB wants to be part of the solution. For this reason, it has been proposed that its students and alumni use artificial intelligence to devise projects that respond to it. This is the premise of Desaf·IA, a new competition organized by the Entrepreneurship Unit of the Employment Service of the UAB.

The event will take place on 13 March, Wednesday, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the study room of the RR building, in the Plaça Cívica (on top of the bar). It is conceived as a workshop for generating ideas in which people will be grouped into multidisciplinary teams, with members of different faculties and schools, to exercise their creativity and find solutions to the challenges posed. 

To do this, they will have the dynamization of Pedro Olivares, coach specialized in leadership, who will guide the session following the design thinking methodology. In addition, competing groups will have to use various artificial intelligence tools that will be very useful to them in the process of ideation of their projects, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity or Bard.

The challenges that the UAB will launch are two and are based on two SDGs:

• Gender equality.
• Clean water and sanitation.

Thus, the organization will pose to the participants one of the main existing social challenges and, in addition, will put on the table an environmental challenge closely linked to the drought that Catalonia suffers.

At the end of the morning, the teams will pitch their project and an expert jury will select four winning teams, two for each challenge, based on the level of creativity, feasibility and impact of their proposals. All members of these groups will receive a voucher of 30 euros to spend in Abacus.

Registration for the event is individual and free through the NEXUS application.

NEXUS Registration