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DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL TACTILE DISPLAY CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING TEXTUAL AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION AS ADVANCED USER INTERFACE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED (TACMON)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The aim of the TACMON proposal is to increase SME competitive advantage in the special needs sector by offering an innovative and cost-effective technology to help the visually impaired to have access to graphical and text-oriented information. The TACMON technology is innovative in that it applies electrostatic MEMS actuator technologies with a micro hydraulic amplitude transmission to realize a ...
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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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Training in Organic Farming, in its methodes and machinery and in the effective commercialisation of direct selling

For a long time confined to a few pioneers, organic farming has now become a forceful movement which has spread throughout Europe and we understand why this is so: public awareness has increased as has eco-political thinking throughout the EC and the market has expanded. Of course, each country has moved at its own pace (just emerging in Spain & Greece, growing in France). The importance given to ...
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Game On accessible Learning

This is a 2007 call Transfer of Innovation BID that is developing serious games for people with learning disabilities and sensory impairments as part of a blended learning approach to VET within a Training Pack. The learning objectives cover basic and key skills, persoanl development and work preparation and sustainability.
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ESTEEM: Empowerment through Study, Training, Enabling Education and Mentoring

The multilevel nature of the transfer of innovation in this project widens the range of future beneficiaries, particularly across sectors and across beneficiary groups. • Employers and social care agencies interested in improving the training opportunities of their disabled staff • Universities and training agencies seeking innovative ways of improving access to their professional training courses ...
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e-Access II - Supporting Vocational Education and Training of Disadvantaged User Communities

The main objectives of the e-Access II Project are the following:- Development of tools for integrating the user-related accessibility requirements into the production of e-Training Resources and e-Training Courses.- Representation of established training practices in a formal and technically reusable way using international specifications and Standards (such as IEEE LOM and IMS Learning Design), ...
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Community close vocational Integration of People with socialpsychiatric Disabilities

Access to the employment market is very difficult for people with social-psychiatric disabilities. Above all a lasting vocational integration is possible only with consideration of the entire life circumstances. Therefore the partnership pursues the following goals:· Creation of adequate bases for a certain life of humans with socialpsychiatric impairments in their homeland municipalities.· Stabil ...
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VALIDATION FOR MENTORING – Development of a validation framework for mentoring: evaluating the achievements of disabled and disadvantaged people

The project develops a comprehensive system for the validation of workplace mentoring for disabled and disadvantaged people in the job market, aiming at the promotion of a system which will define and implement overall principles and practical procedures; the project work phases specifically plan the adoption of pilot mentoring programmes to be set up in Romania and Slovenia, where mentoring is la ...
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Community close vocational Integration of People with socialpsychiatric Disabilities

Access to the employment market is very difficult for people with social-psychiatric disabilities. Above all a lasting vocational integration is possible only with consideration of the entire life circumstances. Therefore the partnership pursues the following goals:· Creation of adequate bases for a certain life of humans with socialpsychiatric impairments in their homeland municipalities.· Stabil ...
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VOCA Europe 2 — Increased accessability to vocational training and increased attachment to the labour market for disabled people through the VOCA europa 2 mentor model

The project is based on two previous project’s results in the field of training disabled persons. For disabled persons getting a job and especially keeping it is a major challenge. This project will develop and test a model for training mentors who can assist companies in employing disabled persons and assist in keeping up the employment situation. The primary target groups of the project are comp ...
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Careers without Barriers

Aim of the project is the development of a qualification programme consisting of two curricula: A) a training curriculum for accessibility experts and B) a training curriculum for usability testers. Target group for A) are persons who want to get further qualification as accessibility experts (e.g. architects, industrial designers, civil servants of public administrations, facility-, quality- and ...
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check and go - Barrierfree basis for people in companies

The project aims to fill the comunication and information gap between people with disabilities and their potential employers and trainers in the companies in order to facilitate the access of this disadvantaged group to practical vocational training and to the labour market. Zur Erreichung der Ziele setzt das Projekt auf Beratung, Qualifizierung und praktische Unterstützung für einen kompetenten I ...
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Check and Go - Barrier-free Work Environment for Disabled People at Companies

The project seeks to fill the communication and information gap between people with disabilities and their potential employers and trainers at companies. The object is to facilitate access by the disabled to practical vocational training and to the labour market. To achieve these goals, the project uses counselling, qualification measures and practical support to help people with disabilities and ...
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English for Specific Purposes: Therapeutic Professions

The project has planned to bridge the gap between the needs of therapeutic professionals whose increased mobility on the European labour market demands specific, work-oriented language skills and the lack of relevant educational tools in this field. In order to develop didactical concepts and enable their technical realization, a trans-national Virtual Language Campus in the field of teaching Engl ...
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electronic Social Promotion of Intercultural Communication Expertise and Skills

The e-SPICES (electronic Social Promotion of Intercultural Communication Expertise and Skills) partnership aims to enhance the awareness of diversity in Europe tackling communication problems between service providers (i.e. 'adults-professionally-in-contact-with-mobility') and 'adults-in-mobility'. e-SPICES implemented a Virtual Communication and Learning Environment for the exchange of ideas and ...
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BASKI - Basic Skills Trainings Model

Start date: Oct 1, 2005,

Whilst adults without disabilities live a self-determined life, persons with learning and/or other disabilities (motor, cognitive, sensory, emotional) often live more heteronomous lives, something particularly evident in the case of institutionalised individuals. The BASKI project aimed at reducing the dependency of disabled persons, in particular institutionalised and hospitalised individuals, th ...
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GAME ON

Start date: Oct 1, 2006,

The Game On project targeted prisoners and ex-offenders (including specifically marginalised groups such as deaf prisoners and prisoners with additional learning needs) and aimed at the creation of motivational e-learning materials and e-games able to support personal development and employment sustainability skills amongst target beneficiaries. Partners commited to the direct involvement of end b ...
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English for Specific Purposes: Therapeutic Professions

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

The project has planned to bridge the gap between the needs of therapeutic professionals whose increased mobility on the European labour market demands specific, work-oriented language skills and the lack of relevant educational tools in this field. In order to develop didactical concepts and enable their technical realization, a trans-national Virtual Language Campus in the field of teaching Eng ...
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Dissemination and Exploitation of Project Results by Social Media

Start date: May 1, 2010,

In the last 10 years, social media through the internet has grown from a minor tool of interpersonal communication to one of the leading players in mass communication. Advertising in social networks like MSN, Facebook, Hyves etc., has become very effective because of the possibility to precisely measure and reach the necessary audience. Social media is perfect for low-cost marketing! We want to im ...
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