Digital Education

Design and Evaluation of Technological Support Tool to EMPOWER stakeholders in Digital Education.

EMPOWER project addreses the educational needs of children with neurodevelopmental conditions.

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Digital Education

Design and Evaluation of Technological Support Tool to EMPOWER stakeholders in Digital Education.

EMPOWER project addreses the educational needs of children with neurodevelopmental conditions.

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Project summary

Project No: 101060918 — EMPOWER — HORIZON-CL2-2021-TRANSFORMATIONS-01

Given technological developments in other domains and lessons from the pandemic, there is a strong push to invest in technologyaugmented education.

However, much remains unknown; for example, what technological abilities are useful in education, how they can be deployed, what training needs arise, and what shape future policies governing this should take.

Given technological developments in other domains and lessons from the pandemic, there is a strong push to invest in technologyaugmented education.

Empower contributes to

resolving these questions by developing novel technological support for the education of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs).

This use case is

Executive Function (EF) and Emotional Self Regulation

Empower core output

10

Games Developed

8

Testing & Validation Shools

150

Children in validation study

9

Project Members

3 Years Overview

18.10.2022

Project Kick Off

Partners of the project have met at the IRTIC institute in Valencia on the 18th October - 2022 to kick off its three-year work programme.

2023

Project Website Launch

The launch of the EMPOWER project website is an important milestone, providing a central hub for project information, resources, updates and engagement with stakeholders.

2023

Game Release

The Empower project has presented two of the nine games that will be developed by the project in order to work on executive functions with children with neurodevelopmental disorders

2023

Project Meetup - Nijmegen

The partners of the Empower project held a follow-up meeting on 27-28 March in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

2023

Empower Involvement

In the month marking #AutismDay2023 on 2 April, the EMPOWER partners join Autism-Europe’s awareness-raising campaign “Building an inclusive society for autistic people”, an opportunity to reflect on the advances made so far for the autism community and the work that remains to improve the lives of autistic people and their families.

2023

Project Meeting - Romania

In the city of Cluj Napoca, Romania, hosted by our partner Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, partners of the EMPOWER meeting met to both update on the latest actions and next steps of the HorizonEurope project

2023

Results from the FOCUS GROUP interview

n the initial stages of the EMPOWER Project, we met with expert teachers and independent specialists via focus group interviews, to explore and gain deeper insights into their perspectives concerning the utility and requirements of resources to help neurodiverse children develop their executive functions and emotional skills.

2023

EMPOWER's Games LineUp

Three exciting new games are currently in development and are highly anticipated to be released in the near future. The games are called Reflex, BEeHOLD and EMOeggi and the expected internal launch date of the fully functional prototypes is mid-November 2023.

2024

Project Meetup - Bergen

In mid-April, the EMPOWER project consortium met in the beautiful town of Bergen, Norway, for an inspirational and engaging project meeting.

2024

EMPOWER General Assembly - Lisbon

A meetup of all consortium members where we discussed - publication protocols/ code-sharing agreements/ upcoming workplan

2025

Final Partners Meeting - Brussels

In late May, the EMPOWER project consortium gathered in Brussels for the final partner meeting before the big rollout of its main output – a learning platform for children with neurological developmental conditions with set timeline in September

2025

Final Project Review

The final project review is set to come in December. We're excited to go through all our project outputs during this time.

The Project

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Deliverables

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EMPOWER Platform

EMPOWER creates a novel platform based on new paradigms from psychology that suggest that Executive Function (EF) and Emotional Self Regulation are two key sets of skills to target in the educational intervention for these students.

Empower contributes to

resolving these questions by developing novel technological support for the education of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs).

This use case is

Executive Function (EF) and Emotional Self Regulation

Empower core output

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