Current projects
Intergenerational Knowledge Exchange (Intergen)
Bringing blind people and people with low vision of different ages and walks of life together in Italy, Germany and Turkey through innovative and interactive workshops. Junior participants will share their technological savvyness whilst their senior peers will pass on their daily independent skills. In addition to running creative workshops, the project ultimately aims to use participant's input to develop exchange workshop guidelines to encourage others to set up their own intergenerational projects.
Timeframe: 2008 - 2010.
European Legislative Database on Disability
Developing a tool to monitor the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Europe. The Database provides an index of existing legislations in several European countries and compares these with the UN Convention.
Timeframe: 2008 - 2010.
Contrapunctus
Designing an innovative service for blind musicians, through a faster and easier access to Braille music scores both in European libraries and online.
Timeframe: 2006 - 2009.
Learning a Foreign Language as a blind or partially sighted person
More information soon.
Previous projects
Citizen's Europe for All : Disabled People on the Move
Organising a Conference in Dublin in May 2009 to investigate European citizenship from the perspective of the blind and partially sighted. A political declaration towards an inclusive Europe was published as a result of the Conference.
Timeframe: 2008 - 2009.
Partnership for the social inclusion of people with a visual impairment
EBU activity in the framework of the EC Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity (PROGRESS).
Timeframe: 2008.
Visually Impaired Women Survey
A questionnaire survey on the education, rehabilitation and vocational training of blind and partially sighted women in the 27 member states of the European Union.
Timeframe: 2008 - 2010.
Digital Competence Screenreader Network (DICOMP-S.NET)
Tackling the digital divide in today's information society by promoting e-skills among blind and partially sighted Europeans.
Timeframe: 2007 - 2008.
Valorisation of Results for Visually Impaired People (ValorVIP)
Recording the demand for innovative concepts and approaches to reduce barriers in vocational education and training for visually impaired people.
Timeframe: 2006 - 2008.
Adressing Discrimination
EBU activity in the framework of the EC Community Action Programme to Combat Discrimination.
Timeframe: 2005 - 2006.
Partnership for Peace
Fostering long-term friendship between Israeli and Palestinian blind and partially sighted children.
Timeframe: 2003 - 2005.
Lambda
Creating an integrated system for writing and reading mathematical texts for blind students.
Timeframe: 2002.
Daphne
Raising awareness about violence facing blind and partially sighted women.
Timeframe: 2000 - 2003.
Visual
Developing voice-based technology to facilitate the design of accessible websites and to improve visually impaired people's web access.