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Writing/Irene Vega
El European project MICADO (Migrant Integration Cockpits and Dashboards) aims to create technological solutions to facilitate the integration of immigrants and refugees arriving in Europe. The main users of MICADO will be public administrations and NGOs, as well as immigrants and refugees themselves. This project is being designed in four European cities, Madrid, Bologna, Antwerp and Hamburg, through the collaboration of public administrations and a multidisciplinary team of organizations with experience in technology, city planning and management, and social studies.
The Rey Juan Carlos University participates in the local team in Madrid, as a technological and communication partner, the Professional Association of Political Scientists and Sociologists of the Community of Madrid and the General Directorate of Social Services and Social Integration-Ministry of Social Policy and Family of the Community of Madrid.
The researcher of the ETS of Computer Engineering Micael Gallego has participated on January 27 and 28 in the first convergence workshop of the MICADO project, in Hamburg. The main objective of this meeting has been to share the needs identified during the co-creation groups carried out in each city with future users. “We have identified the most common and valuable needs and how they could be offered in the form of functionalities provided by MICADO to all these users”, explained the URJC researcher. The teams in charge of the technological solution have identified the viability of each of them and the estimated cost of implementation”, he added.
First convergence workshop of the MICADO project, held in Hamburg
Development of the first prototype in the coming months
As a result of the convergence workshop, the functionalities that will be included in the first preliminary version of MICADO have been selected. In this sense, an app for mobile devices will be developed in which immigrants and refugees will be able to find information of interest adapted to their specific needs in the areas of employment, health, education, work and accommodation in the specific city. For their part, public administrations and NGOs will be able to access the platform through a website where they can manage the information and carry out all kinds of analysis of it with dashboards or representations made up of graphs, data and geolocated information. As Micael Gallego pointed out after this first meeting, "once the first MICADO prototype has been implemented in the coming months, it will be submitted for evaluation by future users and the results of that evaluation will guide the evolution of the platform."