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Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders (Prosperity4All)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

... the infrastructure to allow a new ecosystem to grow; one that is based on self-rewarding collaboration, that can reduce redundant development, lower costs, increase market reach and penetration internationally, and create the robust cross-platform spectrum of mainstream and assistive technology based access solutions required. This will be done through a process based on true value propositions f ...
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Virtual User Concept for Supporting Inclusive Design of Consumer Products and User Interfaces (VICON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The needs of people with sensory or dexterity impairments are generally not well considered when designing user interfaces (UIs) for mainstream consumer products. The majority of existing interfaces and controls rarely fulfil the accessibility requirements of users suffering from visual, hearing, and dexterity impairments. It is also common for an individual to have multiple impairments than just ...
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Inclusive Future-Internet Web Services (I2Web)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

I2Web will provide tools to develop inclusive Future Internet service front-ends to  address the challenges of ubiquitous/mobile Web, media convergence and user-generated content, in combination with cloud computing and Web 2.0, Social Networking, using User-Centred Design and Design for All (DfA)/Inclusive Design principles. By 2025 over 30% of Europe will be elderly, with many of current Interne ...
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Development of a Haptic Display and Vision System for the Blind (BRAVIS)

Start date: Sep 16, 2009, End date: Sep 15, 2011,

"We are proposing to develop a powerful technology that will give the sight-impaired a detailed view of their environment through a sophisticated imaging system displaying on a tactile interface. The system will require no special environmental adaptations and will be totally non-obtrusive. The user should be able to participate in a similar way to sighted persons in normal activities without any ...
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Inclusion of the elderly with visual deficiency by e-technology

... e-government and social communication.The output of the project will be accessible learning content that is especially designedfor the needs of the elderly with visual deficiencies, local and transnational socialnetworks for elderly people supported by internet mediated communication via anelectronic platform that is accessible for people with visual deficiencies and thatmediates e-learning modul ...
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STANDARDIZED TRAINING AND EDUCATION FOR PROFESSIONALS CONCERNING ICF AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT - STEP-IVI

The ICF is a holistic classification system, which does not only take regards on the activities or tasks a person can’t do according to their impairment. ICF also considers environmental aspects and capabilities of the concerned individual. In practical use also trainer, teacher, social worker and psychologists will have to contribute their professional view and reports to complete this system as ...
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Lifelong Learning Needs for Ageing People with Sensory Disabilities

Start date: Oct 1, 2011,

...his field; 3. To contribute to appropriate EU standards of support for lifelong learning for these beneficiaries, and to maximise the impact of the work through political lobbying at European and National Levels; 4. To maximise on an ongoing basis, through all appropriate means of dissemination, the impact of the work of the Network at European and National levels; and 5. To establish the sustaina ...
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XPressYourVision, self-empowerment for the visually impaired

Start date: Jan 1, 2010,

The project addresses visually impaired and blind persons between 18 and 65 years and moreover those suffering from sight loss at age to assist them in further education. Working on vocational rehabilitation we are experiencing the target group having a profound professional knowledge but nevertheless individual difficulties to meet the requirements on a changing European job market and modern wor ...
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Equal Access to Technology Training

New horizons for the visually impaired : The project is bridging the gap for accessible IT training programmes for the visually impaired, particularly those above a certain age. The target group generally finished their formal education before IT was widely used and thus have limited knowledge of the subject. This project started in 2000 and lasted 40 months.
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EVEIL

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

The project Pre-reading/language/representations is a research-action developed by the French Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted to support the awakening of the conscience of the writing, the development of the language and the representations of the young blind and partially sighted children. Visual impairment limits the early perceptive experiments. A very little blind child does not ...
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Digital Inclusion Champions in Europe

...d. coordinator), PhoenixKM (Belgium), FIRR (Poland) and Interprojects (Bulgaria) – all of whom are implementing the DigiPlace4all community within their own countries and helping spread it internationally. The consortium also includes IADT, the coordinator of the Gateway project, to ensure transfer of the most effective aspects of Gateway.The DigiPlace4all website is available in four separate cou ...
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AHVIIT-ACCESS - Innovative e-training tool and audio haptic based learning materials for workers of vocational trainees who may be visually impaired or blind

The project aims to provide innovative vocational training to learners who are blind or visually impaired and this way improve their employability and inclusion. It intends to develop a system that uses multi sensory stimuli (talking tactiles) to deliver vocational training for the visually impaired in 3 vocational fields: Sports Massage, Food Hygiene and Basic Cookery Skills, Basic Computer aware ...
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Vision in Enterprise

A UK based enterprise toolkit was transferred to project partners in Cyprus, Ireland and Poland. The toolkit was tested by each partner and it resulted in processes, materials and competencies which support VI people in self employment, in their respective countries. Further work led to the creation of a generic toolkit, which can be used by any organisation working with VI people in business. Org ...
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BELIEVE — Towards Lifelong Learning in the field of E-learning for the Blind and visually Impaired people by means of an E-Learning Environment

The project aims at( 1) spreading information about the needs for training of visually impaired people in the different countries of the partnership; (2) developing new e-Learning courses integrating speech and appropriate tools for the target group as well as modifying the existing ones in order to make them accessible; (3) making VET institutions aware of the conditions required for participatio ...
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ACTIVE – Accredited Training for Volunteers in Europe

The main interests of the project are the quality assurance about volunteering, the need of training and of formal accreditation in the sector. Volunteering is one of the ways in which people contribute to positive societal change and is therefore central to European ideals of democracy, inclusion and active citizenship; but volunteering also often leads to new, paid jobs being created, and new se ...
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