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Ongoing Projects
AHVITED
Audio Haptics for Visually Impaired Training and Education at a Distance
This project seeks to research the problems experienced by distance learning providers in delivering courses with a visual graphic content. It will go on to further develop the concept of “Talking Tactiles” for use in a distance learning environment. It will create a method of identifying the tactile overlays by an audio bare code reader, and allow interaction from the graphic image via the internet to the training provider.
As it is expected that the outcomes of this project will have an European application an easy to use method translation for embedded instructions and content files will be developed.
Specific objectives of the project
- Research and evaluate the problems of delivering distance learning materials containing visual graphics to the blind and visually impaired
- Develop appropriate system improvements to permit autonomy of use of talking tactile in a distance learning environment.
- Design and produce 3 sets of graphic intensive pilot course materials for use in a distance learning environment, test and evaluate as proof of concept.
- Produce common guidelines for creating talking tactile materials for transnational standardisation
- Create an effective dissemination programme to ensure ongoing benefit can be achieved for our target group
- Deliver a value for money project
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ICFproVIP 2009 - 2011
The Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted, IBOS is coordinating a new European Leo-nardo Partnership. The purpose of the partnership between 7 institutes is to gain knowl-edge about how to implement ICF (International Classification of Functioning, (Dis)Ability and Health) as a tool in (re)habilitation of vision impaired persons (VIP).
The ICF is an international classification of health and health-related domains approved and published by WHO in 2001. It presents a holistic framework for measuring (for coding) different information on functioning that also should be transferred to staff working with VIPs in order to facilitate cooperation and transparency between different professions and the individual VIP.
The partnership will address the different ways in which (re)habilitation for VIPs and the implementation of ICF as a tool are being organised and carried out in the partner coun-tries and institutes: National Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind in Bulgaria; Visio in Nether-lands, BFW Düren in Germany; Liceul pentru Deficienti de Vedere in Romania; NCBI in Ireland, Institut Montéclair, France and IBOS, Denmark . We will address our differences in economic possibilities, legislation, professional traditions, opinions, etc. and adapt and test a two day course in ICF for staff at VIP institutes.
Between meetings it is up to the partners to work individually and nationally with the im-plementation of ICF at their own pace and according to their own needs as some are quite new in this field and some a bit more experienced, some are small and some are large institutions.
At the end of the partnership we also want to address the possibilities and problems facing a further development of the ICF classification system into the visual and rehabilitation field in cooperation with researchers and the WHO.
The debates and experiences from implementing the use of ICF to VIP will be presented at a public final conference and at the Enviter.eu Homepage.
Coordinator: Dorthe Marie Degn, dmd@ibos.dk
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KnowProVip
KnowProVip - Professionals for Visually Impaired Persons Training XL and Knowledge Sharing
KnowProVip will enhance and strengthen the training, knowledge and expertise og the professional - teachers and trainers - working with visually impaired people.
Furthermore, by transferring and spreading knowledge on specific groups of visually impaired:
• Refugees/ Immigrants
• Elderly visually impaired +60
• Acquired deaf-blindness
This project will help main-stream activities and enhance the mobility of professionals who will be in a better situation to work abroad with the insight into other systems and methods
The primary target group in KnowProVip are the individuals involved in teaching and training the visually impaired: professional teachers, trainers, therapists, and special teachers for learners with special needs
A secondary target group is the visually impaired persons themselves, and their relatives. Any improvement in the field will benefit them in the end, and the project will generate knowledge about the more specific groups that beforehand has been limited to certain fields or countries
By using existing training material developed in the ProVipTrain project (2004-2006, head-coordinated by Monteclair, France) supplemented with materials from the areas of expertise of the partners and reporting on the situation for the visually impaired in each country the project will make the following output available:
• Report on the situation in each country – with special focus on the three target groups
• Three adapted modules for training of professionals working with visually impaired persons
- Refugees/Immigrants,
- Elderly visually impaired +60
- Acquired deafblindness
• Didactic Guidelines
• Seminar and dissemination activities
• National advisory committees
The result will be implemented in training seminars for professionals in the partners’ countries and the project will be promoted according to the dissemination plan in order to reach key actors in this field
Transfer of Innovation
The aim of the project is to take already existing knowledge/expertise of the skilled professionals and existing education programmes/modules from the 6 partner organisations and through an adaptation phase transfer these to all the partners, including networking and a European perspective.
Visit the KnowProVip website
GAT4PRoVIP
GAT4PRoVIP - Guidance, Advice and Training for parents and relatives of persons with vision impairment.
Being a relative of someone who has lost their sight is a difficult situation as problems with sight affect the relations to the vision impaired person. Furthermore the relatives are often left alone with coping with all the changes.
GAT4PRoVIP makes it possible for carers of vision impaired people to get help coping with the changes. By making Guidance, Advice and Training accessible online and through courses.
Start learning online at www.GAT4PRoVIP.eu
You can:
• Learn about the eye
• Learn about emotional reactions
• Learn about Assertive technologies
• Read about how others have overcome the situation
• Talk to others in a chat forum
• Find useful links to relevant information
This project has been carried out by RNC, UK and IBOS´ partners in Romania, Germany and Turkey and funded with support from the European Commission.
The good match
The course "The good Match" is mainly recommended for people with low vision or blindness (visual disability) having a short educational background, no work experience or with many years of experience from employment, who has witnessed the complexity making a way into employment.
The course is constructed in a three phase period:
- Assesment period, with focus on the persons Social Competences and Personal Competences
- Employment periods, focus on "Learning by doing" in several companies
- Debriefing period, analyzing the results, what to do next if no occupation achieved
Main objective
is that the participants are having a job by the end period of project.
The project is funded by Labour Market Authority and is lead by the Institute.
Enterprise within the Social Service Section
Enterprise within the Social Service Sectionet is a Nordic project. The aim is to develop pedagogical models of enterprise in the field of adult education in the social service section. A plan will be made for implementation in the Northern countries.
Svenske Yrkesinstitutet is the leader of the project.
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Businesshouse Vision Trade Center
Businesshouse Vision Trade Center is granted by the European Social Fund - Objective 3, Equal: The socially marginalised.
Vision Trade Center is a concrete demonstration of the value of disabled staff as a labour resource.
Its an educational concept that leads to employment.
The project are working with rehabilitation in close cooperation with the business environment.
Visit the Vision Trade Center homepage
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Grundtvig 2: learning partnership
Grundtvig 2: learning partnership is a Sokrates programme (EU project) . It is a 3 year project. The first year has been granted. The aim of the project is illustrated by its title: MDVI ACTIVE. Which means: Multiply Disabled and Visually Impaired Citizens´ Active and Creative Transition for Inclusion through Vocational training and Education.
The overall aim is that, through transnational collaboration, the participants will explore and identify issues for lifelong learning in the development of people with multiple disabilities and visual impairment during their transition towards active citizenship.
There are 9 countries involved in the project. We meet twice a year, but we are also working together at the internet. Besides each country is establishing a national network of partners, who are all working with the target group: Mutiply disabled visually impaired. Experience from the national network is discussed in the transnational cooperation.
Core Competence
The overall aim is to maintain and develop core compentence in professional networks.
Other aims:
- To implement international experience and research results from developmental work into the Danish professionals environment.
- To participate in the development of this core expertice at both Danish and international level.
- To describe levels of quality in the professional work.