Grupo SENERSolidarity projects
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The Sener Foundation will optimize the maintenance and energy efficiency of the Laguna Care Hospital in Madrid
• The engineering and technology group Sener, through its foundation, has signed an agreement with the Vianorte-Laguna Foundation to launch a programme of improvements in the healthcare centre that will result in optimising patient service.
• The project, which will be carried out during 2024, will focus on analysing the energy and water situation and waste management, as well as hospital maintenance.
Madrid, 8 February 2024 – The Sener Foundation, part of the Sener engineering and technology group, has signed an agreement with the Vianorte-Laguna Foundation to develop a consultancy report focused on operational improvements, maintenance and energy and water efficiency at the Laguna Care Hospital in Madrid. This project, scheduled for 2024, seeks to optimise the hospital’s resources to offer a better service to patients.
Since January, Sener professionals, through volunteers from the Sener Foundation, have been collecting and analysing data to propose operational improvements at the healthcare centre. This initiative will allow the hospital to increase its energy efficiency, allocating more resources to the care of its patients.
The Laguna Care Hospital, managed by the Vianorte-Laguna Foundation, is dedicated to the care of elderly people in fragile situations or with incurable diseases, and supports their families. The director of the Sener Foundation, Rosana Madroñal, highlighted the capacity of engineering and technology to transform and improve the quality of life of people, emphasizing the positive impact of this project on the care of patients and their families.
David Rodríguez-Rabadán, general director of Laguna, expressed his gratitude for the collaboration of the Sener Foundation, valuing its professionalism and generosity. The project will focus on the analysis of the energy and water efficiency and waste management of the hospital, as well as the maintenance of its facilities. The Sener Foundation will prepare two reports to optimize the management of the hospital: one on the maintenance and operation of the facilities, and another on the efficiency in the use of energy, water and waste.
The Ramón y Cajal Hospital is committed to artificial intelligence for the early detection of familial cancer
- In collaboration with the Sener Foundation, 10,000 family genealogical trees, of 3 or more generations, and individual clinical data will be studied.
- It will help clinicians to predict the future development of diseases and make better decisions.
The Ramón y Cajal University Hospital will develop an AI tool to predict cancer risk
Madrid – The Ramón y Cajal University Hospital of the Community of Madrid, in collaboration with the Sener Foundation, is developing a tool based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify the hereditary risk of cancer. This initiative will be carried out through the hospital’s Hereditary Cancer Unit, using anonymized data from 10,000 family genealogical trees, covering three or more generations, together with individual clinical data. These data include ages of diagnosis, types of tumors and relevant benign pathologies.
The tool will help clinicians predict the risk of future diseases and improve decision-making, providing a more accurate assessment of hereditary genetic risk. This advance is significant, since only one in ten people evaluated using conventional methods has genetic alterations.
Dr. Carmen Guillén Ponce, head of the Medical Oncology section and head of the Familial Cancer Unit, highlights that AI will facilitate the selection of candidates for genetic studies, improving the early detection of cancer and its follow-up. Daniel Martínez, head of the project at Sener, highlights the usefulness of analyzing family and clinical data together with AI to optimize the interpretation of genetic risk and the selection of candidates for genetic studies.
The project aims to provide excellent and humane healthcare, focused on the person and on prevention, research and innovation for the well-being of patients and their families.
Strengthening the socio-productive chain of granulated panela in the Sierra de Piura
The SENER Foundation is carrying out the initial phase of the project called “Strengthening the socio-productive chain of granulated panela in Peru”, a process that is being developed in collaboration with Engineering for Cooperation – Lankidetzarako Ingeniaritza (ICLI) and the University of Piura (Peru).
During this first phase, SENER will be in charge of carrying out a study on the production process of granulated panela and all the industrial, social and economic aspects that surround it in order to try to optimize it.
Through the analysis of the problems surrounding this archaic, rudimentary, inefficient and not very ecological production process, its deficiencies will be detected and solutions can be proposed that allow it to be improved by taking advantage of the energy and available resources.
This initial study will also consider the training and education of all people involved in the production process of granulated panela, strengthening the role of women in the family and in the local community.
The project, in its broadest sense, aims to provide the Piura region with an educational and technological level that will reduce the gap with other regions or countries.
