Search for European Projects

10 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

Transports et travail accessibles à tous

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

... increase global citizenship by sending twenty young people - some of them visually impaired- to the UK to do a work placement. This experience would be part of an ongoing partnership between the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford and the cité scolaire René Pellet in Villeurbanne. The aim is to develop an equitable and sustainable partnership lasting twenty-four months with two p ...
Read Project

 2

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Guidance advice and training for parents and relatives of visually impaired persons

The project deals with the traumatic effects of sight loss. It aims at providing guidance,advice and training for parents, partners and relatives to enable them to support theperson who has experienced this feared and life changing impairment.The materials will cover both practical and psychological issues.
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 

Inclusion of the elderly with visual deficiency by e-technology

Elderly people nowadays have a strong interest in participating actively in workingprocesses and in social life. That requires their continuous learning concerningchanging needs at work places and current social conditions. However, growing ageoften goes with a declining visual acuity and restricted eyesight (low vision) that mayobstruct people in their usual activities.The core objectives of the ...
Read Project

 6

 FINISHED 

Multi-Sensor Information on Climate Change

According to the 4th Report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) in 2007, as compiled by 600 climatologists drawnfrom 40 countries around the world, using 14 super computer modelsover a 3 years period, there is greater certainty than ever, that the currentglobal warming is not a natural phenomenon. The report stated that thereis a 90% chance that global warming is caused by hu ...
Read Project

 5

 FINISHED 

E-YES - Creation of an e-learning interface for the blind and the visually impaired

The main purpose of this project is to narrow the ‘digital divide’ between Europeans who have the benefits of applied ITC in education and training and people with impaired vision, who are the primary target group for the project. The project aims at identifying training and accessibility needs of visually impaired people for whom 2 tools will be developed: a software system for administering and ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Visually Impaired Masseurs - Supporting the creation of a uniform model for a European masseur training for visually impaired people

Getting to grips with a European model : The project has developed a training model which will form the basis for the development of courses for visually impaired masseurs throughout Europe and will hopefully contribute to the creation of Europe-wide accreditation. This project started in 2001 and lasted 39 months.
Read Project

 13

 FINISHED 

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 ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

Touching Maths

In general this project wants to provide and stimulate greater equal opportunities for braille users in the field of maths by providing them and their teachers with better methods and educational material.During the first year, we exchanged good practice about mathematical braille code on the one hand, and visual aids on the other hand: tools for reading, writing and listening (laptop, braille dis ...
Read Project

 7

 FINISHED 

Transfer of audio-haptic for visually impaired information technology

Sensory impaired (vision or hearing impaired) and mild cognitive impaired people (Aspergers and autistic spectrum, head injuries, etc) often face considerable problems in accessing suitable educational and vocational opportunities. As a result, talking tactile technology (T3) was developed to help such people access the visual and diagrammatic elements commonly used in "many walks of life". T3 h ...
Read Project

 6