Tailor-made innovation for the arts, culture and creativity

Students, researchers, business and professionals in the Basque Country were able to access various collaboration and funding opportunities through our Konexioak Programme, thanks to our _Lab, _Prest and _Hazi calls.

As a result, 10 new projects have emerged to contribute to the music, design, visual arts, fashion, language, crafts, performing arts, audiovisual and multimedia sectors. These projects share KSIgune's purpose: to bring academic knowledge and professional creativity together to drive joint innovation. 

Details about them can be found below:

_Lab

Undergraduate, master's and doctoral students from the University of the Basque Country and Mondragon University worked together to investigate the challenges of three businesses and to design solutions such as these:

1. ElektrART Challenge: the design of an immersive experience for hospital environments, which combines art, nature and technology.
2. A film to kill for Challenge: the development of a tool that uses AI to help integrate sustainability criteria into the company.   
3. Basque Biodesign Center Challenge: the transformation of rural waste to create new structures for the performing arts through biodesign.

_Prest

Degree dissertations that will drive innovation in the business:

4. ECOCRISTAL LAB: Studio Petit Muller and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Deusto. 
5. From Gesture to Music – Real-time poetic interpretation of sign languages: Guajira Sicodélica S.L. (Dabadaba) and Musikene.
6. AULKIRIBIL: Biribil Ecolab and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Deusto. 

_Hazi

Projects that will bring applied research to the cultural and creative sectors:

7. EMIAK 2.0 – Evaluation and implementation of a critical tool for analysing images from a feminist perspective: Creative Bravo MM and the Faculty of New Interactive Technologies at EUNEIZ.  
8. HARIKA – The recovery of local textile waste to create new neo-artisans: H05 Koop. Elk. Txikia and the Gipuzkoa School of Engineering at the University of the Basque Country.
9. ESEI: AA – Large-scale analysis of the creator's stereotypes from the perspective of Basque society:  
ORAI NLP Teknologiak and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication at the University of the Basque Country. 
10. Development of interactive textiles and liquid projection surfaces to create immersive interactive installations: Estudio Gheada and the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Basque Country.  

You will be able to find out more about them soon.

For the time being, you can find out more about the Konexioak Programme and the opportunities available to you.