24/10/2006 EU Leonardo Project AHVIIT

This project, partially financed by the Community Vocational Training Action under the Leonardo Da Vinci Programme, seeks to improve the inclusion of workers or trainees who are blind or visually impaired in vocational training programmes using visual materials, by delivering these in a non visual format, which is touch and sound. The project will design, produce and test pilot learning materials, as well as create an online training programme for teachers.

The need is identified by the low employment levels and specialist training facilities available for this group. Unless facilities and systems are devised and introduced now, the acceptance of e-learning as an essential feature for modernisation and adaptation of training systems across the EU may continue with the substantial exclusion of this group.

The added value is in removing unemployed people from incapacity benefits, state or charitable support and allowing them full inclusion in the workforce as well as the career enhancement of workers already within the target group.

The aims and objectives are to produce three pilot VET training courses that contain a significant element of visual graphics, in the form of

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