Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation

Aim

The project focuses on the cataloguing and analysis of best pactices in e-learning targeting disabled people. In particular, the project concentrates on digital literacy and on how to teach people with disabilities to use the new ICT technology (i.e. information and Telecommunication Technology). The aim of the project is to gather relevant information in relation to successful practices that have been implemented and tested nationally and/or locally, particularly on how to teach disabled to use new technology as a useful tool in their daily life. After this collecting phase, a team of experts will analyse a selection of those practices (i.e. those identified as the best and most transferable examples) to provide models to be spread and exploited at a wider EU level. The final aim of the project will be to create a database of good practices from which anyone involved in e-learning and the teaching of ICT-skills to disabled people, can find good examples and "successful tools" to set up their own projects in the same field. The DEA project is being develop with the support of the European Commission (DG Education and Culture).

Main developments

Currently the DEA project is gathering information on already developed and successful e-learning prcatices for the disabled.

To do this, the project team is using a form which gathers basic and detailed information concerning each best practice (e.g. methodology, results of the experience, etc.). The target group of the project is disabled people regardless to their specific disability. Methodologies vary significantly according to the different groups. This is why the form is dafted in a way that it can be filled in for any type of disability.

the form is also available on the project website (www.deaproject.org) and it can be filled in online.

During the next phase of the project, the project team will analyse each practie and it will structure the selected experiences/projects into a catalogue, to provide practical and useful information to organisations working with people with disabilities. hence, the catalogue will be very userfriendly and it will be searchable also by disability.

With the aim of stimulating exchange of information, cooperation, networking and the creation of further partnerships to develop ICT for disabled people, the DEA catalogue will include a description (activities and sectors of interest, list of relevant projects, etc.) and the contact details of each organisation which provided best practice.

Partners: Hypermedia Open Centre (Polo Regional Como), e-ISOTIS (information Society Open to Impairments) and Evolvit

Website: www.deaproject.org