This project has been shortlisted for the DPH 2025 Innovation Prize – Best Partnership
Team: Luis Duarte Andrade Ferreira, Mónica Paula Gouveia Spínola and Sergi Bermudez I Badia (Musiquence Technologies, ARDITI – NOVA-LINCS, University of Madeira)
Outline: Musiquence Technologies’ mission is to empower creators with AI-driven, science-backed no-code tools to design interactive, user-centred solutions. Aimed at content creators like teachers and therapists, our intuitive platform enables quick, personalized adaptations of educational and therapeutic activities – no technical expertise required.
The tools currently available are often complex, unintuitive, or require programming skills, making them difficult for content creators such as teachers, therapists, and caregivers to use effectively. In education, the lack of accessible and flexible solutions hinders the adaptation of content to meet the specific needs of individual students, particularly those with learning difficulties. In healthcare, the ability to personalise therapeutic activities is limited, impeding effective care for patients with diverse profiles and clinical conditions. There is an urgent need for intuitive, accessible, and adaptable solutions that facilitate the simple and effective personalisation of activities, ultimately improving outcomes in both education and healthcare.
Thus, we provide an innovative solution that simplifies and automates the personalisation of activities for the education and healthcare sectors, removing the necessity for advanced technical knowledge. Our intuitive platform – Musiquence (MQ) – empowers content creators (such as teachers, therapists, and caregivers) to adapt content swiftly and effectively to meet the individual needs of users (like students and patients). Our solutions seek to unite patients, healthcare professionals, teachers, and educators, promoting an integrated approach to care and education.
Consequently, we have currently established partnerships with healthcare institutions such as Garouta do Calhau, Centro Social e Paroquial de São Bento da Ribeira Brava, Casa de Saúde Câmara Pestana, Casa de Saúde São João de Deus, Alzheimer Portugal (Madeira Delegation), SESARAM, and, recently, Os Grandes Azuis. We also have partnerships with universities and research centres such as Madeira University, CCG/ZGDV and ARDITI. These collaborations fostered strong partnerships with regional healthcare providers, universities, and research institutions, creating mutually beneficial outcomes for all parties involved. For example, in the healthcare sector, we have developed multiple prototypes of MQ and successfully validated its therapeutic benefits. Partners have already used early versions of our solution in cognitive stimulation sessions. In collaboration with Startup Madeira, we also ran a Gaming Hackathon with 30 healthcare professionals and 7 designers, creating seven targeted applications in one day, demonstrating our technology’s versatility and impact.
In the field of education, MQ is utilised for the development of pedagogical projects in Psychology at Madeira University, leading to several scientific publications. It has also been employed at the Universidade de Coimbra for educational-related activities. This experience offered valuable insight into the strategic needs of both healthcare institutions and the education sector, guiding the further refinement of our product, which is set to launch in 2025.
Our innovation was made possible through strong, collaborative partnerships with healthcare providers and academic institutions. These relationships enabled a co-creation process that aligned product development with real-world needs, resulting in a validated, practical solution. The mutual exchange of expertise and resources led to improved therapeutic outcomes and demonstrated the true value of collaboration in driving meaningful impact.
