On the afternoon of Friday, 22 October, took place in the Cidade da Cultura, the resolution ceremony of the XIV edition of the Prize for the best University Project with Free License organised by the CIXUG Consortium, with the collaboration of the Axencia para a Modernización Tecnolóxica de Galicia (AMTEGA)

A total of 4 applications reached this final phase, which were evaluated by the jury through their different presentations, and which took into account aspects such as the correct licensing of the works, as well as the use of their methodology, which especially characterises open works.

The first prize was awarded to Paloma Piot Pérez-Abadín, a student of the Master's Degree in Computer Engineering (MUEI) who presented her Master's thesis entitled «Automatic profiling of users for the early detection of mental disorders», in which she developed a system capable of automatically profiling users with applicability in the early detection of mental disorders. This recognition carries an economic endowment of 1,500 euros, provided by the CIXUG under the collaboration agreement signed with the AMTEGA.

In addition, a second prize was awarded to Borja González Seoane, also a student at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of A Coruña, for his final degree project «PyToxo: a Python tool for calculating penetrance tables of high-order epistasis models», which presents a new implementation of the Toxo library, which introduced an innovative mathematical approach to state of the art, but which was developed for MATLAB. PyToxo is released under a free licence and uses the full power of the Python language. This second prize has an economic endowment of 750 euros, which is provided by the GPUL association, a collaborating entity of this initiative and also framed in the collaboration agreement signed with AMTEGA.

Finalists

The finalists who reached the final phase of this year's edition were the following:

• Paloma Piot Pérez-Abadín
  • Automatic profiling of users for the early detection of mental disorders
• Mauro Alberto de los Santos Nodar
  • Blockchain-based COVID-19 digital vaccination passport, with associated cryptocurrency as an incentive and mobile application for its use
• Diego Trabazo Sardón
  • Galiasdoc: a system for the automatic extraction of structured information from documents with common layout elements
• Borja González Seoane
  • PyToxo: a Python tool for calculating penetrance tables of high-order epistasis models

Jury

The jury was made up of the following persons:

• Mariano Cabrero Canosa
  • University of A Coruña
• José Varela Pet
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
• Francisco Javier Rodríguez Martínez
  • University of Vigo
• Bruno Cabado Lousa
  • GPUL
• Brais Arias Rio
  • Open Source Software Office of the Amtega

Prize for the best University Project with an open-source licence

The CIXUG announces this award as part of the activities included in the collaboration agreement with AMTEGA, which aims to improve the mechanisms for training and dissemination of free software in the Galician university ecosystem.

GPUL's collaboration is also part of the activities carried out under the collaboration agreement signed with Amtega to promote free software in Galicia.

Acknowledgement

The CIXUG would like to thank all the participants and collaborators so that this award can continue promoting the release of university work in our community and will begin to disseminate information about the next edition.