Main objectives
- Promoting access to employment for people with disabilities through training creating training and awareness-raising programmes to enhance the digital skills of groups with disabilities.
- Promoting impact measurement and inclusive capacity building in the collaborating companies.
- Boosting research and innovation as levers additional support to improve professional incorporation of this group in ordinary settings.
- Disseminating knowledge and raising awareness in society organising outreach and knowledge transfer activities on the importance of breaking down barriers and building a culture of disability awareness.
Address
Marta López Costa. Director of the Chair (UOC).
Antonio Rueda Guglieri. Co-Director of the Chair (F. VASS).
Technical coordination
Arantxa Rodríguez Arnedo. Corporate project manager (UOC).
Beatriz Alcaraz Guijarro. Director of Corporate Partnerships (UOC).
Natalia Fuentes Pampliega. Director of Marketing and Communication (F. VASS).
Joint Monitoring Committee
Jacobo Guillén Delgado. Director of Industry and Services (VASS).
José Samuel Berigüete Valero. Academic Director of VASS University.
Joan Carles Medina Alcaraz. Deputy Director of Research at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (UOC).
Maite Fernández Ferrer. Deputy Director of Partnerships, Community and Culture at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (UOC).
Advisory Council
Ignacio Tremiño Gómez. Vice-President of the Spinal Cord Injury Foundation and vice-president of Promoting Equality C&L.
Pilar Rojas Caja. Responsible for Corporate Culture, Diversity and Employee Experience at REPSOL.
Ignacio González Cabello. Manager of the Department of Employability and Educational Innovation in Telefónica Foundation.
Mari Satur Torre Calero. Manager of the Spanish Red Cross Foundation.
Miguel López Quesada. President of the Association of Communication Managers.
Pedro Martínez López. President of the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities in the Region of Murcia and manager of Fundown.
Israel González Carrasco. Director of the Spanish Subtitling and Audiodescription Centre (CESyA).
Marc Badia Muntané. Coordinator of the Labour Inclusion Service Col-labora en Catalan Down's Syndrome Foundation.
Daniel Riera Terrén. Director of the Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunication Studies (UOC).
Andrea Jardí Ferré. D. in Education and Society from the University of Barcelona.
Activities
1 April 2025
I Meeting of the members of the Chair in Madrid.
25 June 2025
Presentation of the Chair in Madrid.
2026
Conference on employability and inclusion of people with disabilities.
3rd quarter 2025
Start of training itineraries focused on people with disabilities to promote their inclusion in the labour market through a selected number of skills areas of interest in the digital field.
2027
International Hackathon.
