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The Grant
The purpose of the Steria Foundation
grant is to enable a group of students from French business or
engineering schools to design and carry out a project in which
information technology is used to help people in need. They will
benefit from the help of Steria volunteers and will receive a
grant of up to 10,000€.
Today, the Steria Foundation
Grant is open only for French engineering and business schools.
The grant aims to:
- inform the student population about the
Steria Foundation's actions,
- make the student population more aware of
its social responsibilities and the role it plays in society,
- use the creativity of young students with
cutting-edge knowledge to carry out a project with practical
and immediate goals,
- share skills with students (project management
on a technical and human level, technical expertise, etc.) by
working with Steria volunteers.
Projects Awarded
2006 Grant Winner: the cHeer uP! project to help young people with cancer
The cHeer uP! Student Association from Supélec (French engineering school) proposes to implement a system allowing computers with an Internet connection to be lent to young patients (between the ages of 18-25) suffering from leukaemia at the Villejuif Hospital near Paris, the most important European health centre specialised in cancer. A server will also enable these patients to store data relating to course work or personal information. By making them feel less isolated, this project aims at helping young patients to recover faster.
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2005 Grant Winner: the Manette project
aims at providing greater independence to disabled people
The goal of the project, based on recommendation by an occupational
therapist from the Pomponiana Motor Education Institute in Hyères
(southern France), is to enable people in wheelchairs to control
electrical appliances (turning on lights, heating, closing revolving
shutters, etc.) using a PDA via a lever adapted to their disability.
The students from ISEN Toulon* demonstrated their prototype model
in June for the Trophée association for the disabled and
the school's board of trustees; it has therefore now been validated.
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2004 Grant Winner: a virtual keyboard for disabled persons now up and running
This virtual keyboard for motor-disabled persons, presented by a student team from Intech Info* (esiea group), in partnership with the Raymond Poincaré Hospital in Garches (near Paris) was successfully tested among occupational therapists and handicapped patients of the hospital. It can be downloaded online free of charge on the www.cvk.fr site and can then be customised and configured for the user's computer. CVK is available in Open source, which will allow numerous enhancements, already under way.
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* Engineering schools
** Business Schools
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