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Theatres for All
Start date: Sep 9, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

At EU level there is no homogeneous approach regarding the development of standards that ensure the uniformity and high quality of Audio-description in the theatres. There are some good practices but generally the level of accessibility of theatres to blind and partially sighted is low. The audio description has to become the norm, not the exception, as it is today. Equal access to museums, theatres and places of cultural interest is a right of visually impaired people, not a luxury.The main objective of the project is to increase the accessibility of theatres to blind and partially sighted people in 4 involved territories (Forli-Cesena, Extremadura, Wolverhampton and Paris). The specific objectives are to: improve professional competences of audio-describers and audio translators, support exchange of best practices and improve management skills of private and cultural sector to facilitate the audio-description services and to enhance transnational cooperation in order to create new business models for audio-description services.The objectives will be achieved through a set of activities which will produce concrete results and long-term impacts on target groups: elaboration of 4 Local Action Plans which will contain indication and recommendation to improve the accessibility of theatres, exchange of best practices and study visits, transnational trainings targeted to audio describers and audio translators, identification of winning business models for audio describers and local protocols of understanding in order to support the audio describers to act cooperatively and to transform their skills into a business opportunity, realization of pilot actions to increase the offer of audio description and to improve the promotion of the services of audio description among blind and visually impaired people. The partnership is composed by 2 local public authorities, 1 cultural association/provider of audio-description and 1 university. The project will last 20 months.

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