INCLUSIVE PROJECTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO SECONDARY AND HIGHER EDUCATION

The purpose of this work is to bring science and technology and its applicability closer to secondary school and university students through the development of cooperative projects with people with functional and cognitive diversity.Through a teaching and learning methodology based on inclusive projects, professors from Higher Education aim to promote scientific and technological vocations and involve people with diversity in the advances in science and technology while making their condition visible to young people.This work shows both qualitative and quantitative indicators that allow us to evaluate the impact of those proposals.The degree of satisfaction of all the agents involved is very high, not only with the teaching and learning but also with the quality of the solutions developed to meet the needs of those people with diversity.The incorporation of projects based on both socially inclusive technological challenges and fairs increases motivation, participation and interest in science and technology, as we will demonstrate from obtained results.In addition, we would like to point out that these proposals mainly achieve three different sustainable development goals: number 4 (quality education), number 10 (reduction of inequalities) and number 12 (responsible consumption and production).