eAccess II - Supporting Vocational Education and Training of Disadvantaged User Communities
The eAccess II project aims to provide the technical infrastructure (tools and services) and to deliver training for developing and sharing Accessible e-Training Resources and e-Training Courses that can be reusable between different e-Training Platforms and Programmes.
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CHANTICA – Culture History And Nature Together In Contemporary Art
CHANTICA is a project in the field of culture and its main aim is to encourage young people from rural areas to create contemporary art by using elements of their countries’ culture, history and nature. In this context five cultural actions will be held in each of the partner organisations’ countries. The partner organisations apart from e-ISOTIS are: GRAMPUS (UK, England), ARCH (UK, Scotland), STROPEK (Slovakia) and VITRA (Slovenia). Each action will have a duration of 7 days during of which young people from partner countries will have the chance to work together in order to create contemporary art inspired by their countries’ culture, history and nature. CHANTICA is a project co-financed by the EU Culture 2000 programme and it has a duration of 2 years.
For more information please visit the project website at: http://www.archnetwork.eu/blog/CHANTICA

Goalnet
Goal NET aims to:
• To support the acquisition and use of knowledge skills and qualifications to facilitate personal development by developing a curriculum, incorporating a suite of accessible, interactive computer games with embedded learning objectives in Basic Skills, Personal Development and Employment Preparation.
• To support improvements in the quality and innovation in VET by pulling together a group of expert organisations who are delivering state of the art, quality services and developments, cross-sectorally, to the target group and, through co-operative development, create a synergy that will raise the capacity across Europe to provide quality and innovation in VET across Europe.
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Game On
GAME ON will create highly engaging and motivating materials using Game Based Learning to develop basic, personal and work sustainability skills in prisoners, those at risk of offending and ex-offenders, including those with disabilities.
The personal development module will support learning that will develop the employability of the beneficiaries (e.g., managing aggression, responses to problems and stress, self esteem, and trust). The work sustainability module will support the expectations and code of conduct of employers, the legal and safety issues of employment etc. There will also be Basic Skills modules dealing with entry level numeracy and literacy.
These materials are be designed and developed by 7 partners throughout Europe (UK, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania) to take full account of cultural and language variations. These flexible games based learning tools will then be trialled and released to improve prison based education throughout Europe
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ESTEEM project
(Empowerment through Study, Training, Enabling Education and Mentoring)
Scope and Target Groups:
Lifelong learning provides more opportunities for more people to get the skills and qualifications they need to enter the labour market, and at a level which matches their ability and potential. But, to make the most of this opportunity, people need to get into training. This is difficult for some people to do, because of economic disadvantage, structural barriers to their participation, limited educational experience, ethnocentric attitudes and cultural insensitivity.
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navigAbile
NavigAbile is an internet-based system aimed to provide an innovative way to access web content to children and youths affected by motor, mental and communicational disabilities. It offers a cluster of telecommunication services designed, on one side, to enhance web interface and content accessibility and, on the other, to supply communication and relation tools.
These services are tailored to support disabled people, especially if accustomed to use multimodal communication tools (alternative communication techniques based on the use of symbols, images and photos such as Augmentative Alternative Communication), allowing them to:
Watch navigAbile video about sentence composition using PCS symbols
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Enable project
Scope
The ENABLE project aims to produce a wearable system to support services that will “enable” elderly people to live well, independently and at ease. It will develop a system for use by an elderly person in or out of the home so it can mitigate the effects of disability and increase independence, autonomy, mobility, care, safety and communication.
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Emerge project
Emerge: Emergency Monitoring and Prevention
FP6-IST-2005-045056
Scope
The EMERGE project aims to support the activities of daily living of elderly people with an innovative monitoring system. With the use of ambient and unobtrusive sensors EMERGE plans to monitor activity, location and vital data of elderly people and detect deviations from typical behavior. The project engineers a prototype that treats emergencies with stepwise assistance. More specifically, the three steps involved are:
- To provide proactive assistance to the elderly people themselves and then integrate friends, family or caregivers, if necessary
- To contact the Emergency Medical Service (EMS), in case the emergency situation can not be resolved, and provide information about the medical situation of the affected person
- To resolve the situation through the involvement of EMS who provide medical care, telemedicine counseling or send a rescue team
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2006 - EU4ALL (European Unified Approach for Assisted Lifelong Learning)
Scope: The aim of EU4ALL is to improve the efficiency and efficacy of implementing an open e-learning service architecture for ALL. To achieve a wide impact the approach taken is not to develop a single EU4ALL system but a standards based framework that facilitates the integration of the approach with a wide range of eLearning systems.
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2006 - eABILITIES (A virtual platform to enhance and organise the coordination among centres for accessibility resources and support)
Scope: eABILITIES aims at developing a framework for current and future actions in research, education and technology transfer in the field of ICT accessibility in the home, vehicle and working environments in Europe. With this purpose, eABILITIES will enable, organise and promote the share of related knowledge, communication, facilities equipment and personnel resources.
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2004 - ASK-IT (Ambient Intelligence System of Agents for Knowledge-based and Integrated Services for E&D users)
Scope: The driving vision behind the project is to develop services based on Information Communication Technologies (ICT) that will allow people with special needs to move independently, lead a quality life and as a result achieve economic and social integration. These services include the provision of relevant and real-time information, primarily for travelling, but also for use at home, at work and for leisure.
e-ISOTIS developed the below video for ASK-IT project. The video depicts in an easy and understandable manner what ASK-IT is about and what it aims at achieving, namely allowing mobility impaired people to travel independently from one country to another, making use of the latest ICT available, and all this in an accessible and affordable manner.
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2006 - Access-eGov (Access to e-Government Services Employing Semantic Technologies)
Scope: Access-eGov aims at increasing the accessibility of public administration services for citizens and business users by supporting the interoperability among existing electronic and
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2005 - EURIDICE (EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learnIng Courses for Educator)
Scope: EURIDICE project intends to validate the market sustainability of an e-learning platform and establish the basis for its further commercial deployment. The project concept is to offer to educational institutions an advanced and accessible e-learning platform containing a wide source of contents from different providers, i.e.: archives, libraries and photographic repositories. The accessibility of this service to people with vision impairments is considered as a key factor for the success of the project.
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2006 - GAMBE (Community close vocational integration of people with socialpsychiatric disabilities)
Scope: The current situation is as such that there are a lot of unemployed people with social-psychiatric disabilities, existing qualification systems do not respect the special needs of people with social-psychiatric disabilities, and professionals are working without connection to the communities and the social structurs of the clients. GAMBE aims at changing this by promoting a self-determined life, strengthening the community, establish a sustainable implementation of high quality professional education, and exchange this acquired knowledge within the partner countries. This should result in a curriculum for the education as community close integrational worker, a curriculum for qualification program for people with disabilities, an internet platform, guidelines for job creation, and a manual for community close vocational integration.
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2006 - Check and Go
Scope: The project aims to fill the communication 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. In order to reach its objectives, the project includes counselling, training and practical support for an efficient exchange of information between people with disabilities and companies in the critical phase of the application for a job.
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2006 - AHVIIT-ACCESS (Audio Haptics for Visually Impaired Information technology)
Scope: This project 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 that is touch and sound. The project will design, produce and test pilot learning materials as well as create an online training programme for teachers.
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2006 - VOCA2
Scope: VOCA EUROPE 2 aims at offering increased accessibility to vocational training, enhancing the chances for people with disabilities in the labour market by providing them with the opportunity to obtain a qualification to become mentors who can assist individuals and companies in the recruitment process, while also ensuring that people with disabilities maintain their job.
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2005 - PEDA Parents Education in Disadvantaged Areas
Scope: The project has realized that the contribution of parents to the future of their children is very important and especially for children who face difficulties in their daily life. The lack of knowledge and the attitude of society in the disability field are barriers for social development, prosperity and better quality of life for those children. Therefore the project fosters new strategies for involving and motivating the parents in the education of their children and themselves.
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2005 - CWB Careers without Barriers
Scope: CWB aims at creating a new profession of a usability & accessibility tester, specifically targeting people with disabilities. The project will involve disabled people closely with accessibility experts in making (small and medium) enterprises and public buildings accessible for people with disabilities that are working there, and that want to participate fully in the professional working environment.
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2005 - Mentoring Validation
Scope: Mentoring Validation project aims at the development of a validation framework for mentoring that will allow to evaluate the achievements of disability and disadvantaged people in the labour market, while also identifying those mentoring programs that make a difference.
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2005 - BASKI (The Basic Skills Training Model)
Scope: The Basic Skills Training Model shall put disabled individuals with a high need of care in a position to strengthen their ability to think, express themselves and as result actively organise their life and get support on independent living.
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2005 - Active Citizenship 9th May, Europe Day
Scope: Stimulate young people to realise the importance and acceptance of European citizenship especially by becoming familiar with the European Institutions and instruments
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2004 - DEA Digital Literacy open to Impairments
Scope: DEA project aims at the collection and subsequent dissemination of good practices undertaken by European projects concerning the promotion of digital literacy, targeted at people with disabilities. All involved partners will for this reason undertake extensive research in all European countries, and collect such practices.
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2004 - MOTRASUP Modular Training System for Handicapped in Providing Attendant Support
Scope: MOTRASUP aims at implementing a training curriculum that will train and certify people with disabilities to work as psychological supporters for other people with disabilities. The training will be undertaken via pilots in Germany, Bulgaria and Greece based on classroom teaching, while the courses will also be offered through an accessible e-learning platform.
Please find below the video of the MOTRASUP training session. By clicking on the play button, you will be able to play the video.
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2004 - GET_CONNECTED Internet Portal for people with learning difficulties
Scope: GET-CONNECTED project, which was successfully completed, aimed at the development, pilot testing and enhancement of an accessible Internet Portal, specifically conceptualised to meet the needs of young and adult people with learning difficulties.
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2004 - Stimulating Public Interest Litigation at a Pan-European Level- Raising Knowledge and Imparting Skills
e-ISOTIS under the European project “Stimulating Public Interest Litigation at a Pan-European Level- Raising Knowledge and Imparting Skills
2004 - eInclusion@EU
e-ISOTIS under the European Project eInclusion@EU has recently completed a national correspondent for Greece and Cyprus regarding
a) main policy approaches and measures addressing eInclusion,
b) eAccessibility in Public Procurement of ICTs and
c) eAccessibility in Equality and Anti-discrimination Legislation and Regulations.
The full report addressing the above three issues in all member states will soon be available from the project website.
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