Avenga Projects For Social Good

Avenga projects
for social good

December 22, 2021

5 min read

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Driven by the commitment and enthusiasm of our people, we initiate and support social sustainability projects. By realizing the impact of business on social welfare, we strive to produce positive change in the communities where we live and work. Several social incentives, started by Avenga in 2020, have been brought to life once again in 2021.

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Stanford Distributed Computing Project

Folding@home is a distributed computing project to perform biomedical research using the computing power of volunteers. The initiative brings together volunteers who donate their personal computational resources for the researchers and scientists to process new data that helps to develop life-saving drugs. We joined the project and set up a folding@home lab from our spare Avenga hardware, which is 100% dedicated to folding.

United for Health

United for Health is an emergency project with a mission to raise funds for 100,000 express tests to make mass coronavirus testing possible. The next step of the project is funding critical medical equipment for hospitals. It is launched by the local Lviv IT Cluster, a community of IT companies and local authorities. Avenga Ukraine, as a member of Lviv IT Cluster, is participating in the initiative and, together with other companies contributing to the campaign, we have raised over $100 000 already.

Blood Donation Application

Avenga cares to make the process of blood donations easier with technologies. The company’s team developed a free mobile app, called Bank Krwi, which assists blood donors in Poland. With this app, people can check the availability of blood units in the blood banks.

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Medical 3D Printing

Avenga’s people have joined different initiatives that are supporting hospitals with 3D printed medical equipment. It entails the production of adapters, developed by Mawi Pipeline, allowing a single assisted mechanical ventilation device to serve several patients simultaneously. Besides, Avenga supports the Provincial Hospital St. Padre Pio in Przemysl with 3D printed visors for medical personnel.

Support for Medical Centers and Hospitals

Avenga is proud to cooperate with life-saving initiatives. The previous year, the company contributed to and equipped several hospitals and medical centers, such as Szpital Żeromski in Krakow, Poland; Szpital Specjalistyczny in Kościerzyna, Poland; Hospital in Zhydachiv, Ukraine; Ambulance crew in Khmelnytsky, Ukraine; K.I.D.S. Foundation in Warsaw, Poland.

Fighting COVID-19 with Data Science

Data Science communities all over the globe work together to analyze the current COVID-19 situation and to offer some fact-based answers. Avenga’s Data Science Team joined the Roche UNCOVER Kaggle competition to analyze a collection of global datasets and model solutions for key pressing questions.

Serving the community

Avenga serves communities by supporting those who are in a fervent need for it; be it volunteering at care homes or contributing to organizations that make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities or those suffering from acute diseases. Some of the programs supported by Avenga include: Made by Dyslexia, StraßenKinder e.V., Frauenhäuser Köln, Run for a Cause, Hour of Code, Decembeard, Women of Fortune, Intervention Adoption Center, and the Bonafide Foundation.

Support of Women in IT

Diversity is incorporated into Avenga’s business strategy as a part of our company culture. We promote inclusion and diversity in leadership and encourage women inside the company and throughout the IT industry. Avenga team takes part in mentoring programs and gives motivational speeches supporting female leadership. We are proud to have global Women in Tech initiative ambassadors onboard.

Made by Dyslexia

The global initiative Made by Dyslexia helps children with dyslexia to realize their full potential. This charity organization is led by successful dyslexics and works together with experts and psychologists. Did you know that people with dyslexia think outside of the box, see connections and understand change more intuitively? We support Made by Dyslexia and join together with all their creative minds.

Helping Street Children

The Berlin-based association StraßenKinder e.V. helps socially disadvantaged children to integrate into the community through educational opportunities, psychological support, and professional counseling. Through its numerous educational and promotional offers, the organization makes it possible for these children to find their place in society. We believe everyone deserves the chance of a good education and we support the StraßenKinder e.V. initiative.

Promoting education accessibility

Equal access to the Internet should be nothing less than an inalienable right of every person in the 21st century. 2021 witnessed Avenga contributing to web accessibility and promoting inclusion by ensuring a perfect user experience for everyone. We have partnered with accessiBe, an innovation company that adapts websites for the user needs of people with visual, hearing and motor impairments and other functional disabilities. Together the companies designed an AI-driven tool for web accessibility, which scans websites and automatically provides key modifications to convert data into accessible content.

Understanding the value of education, Avenga kept on working on two other valuable projects that the company launched back in 2020.

Avenga educational courses

Avenga is one of the major Eastern European professional educational hubs when it comes to Salesforce, DevOps, Automation QA, and iOS development. All the course participants are looking at a plethora of employment opportunities at Avenga following a successful completion of the course of their choice.

Educational charity organization

The Hebron IT Academy offers free education for underprivileged and socially disadvantaged youth. We are proud to sponsor scholarship programs and provide students with devices and educational materials, as well as having our best experts sharing their knowledge with the academy students.

Supporting those in need is one of the unwritten laws of sustainable development. We keep going this way and invest our time and effort.