Digital competence for blind people as a basis
for work and vocational education and training

project description

The DICOMP Transfer project deals with the situation of blind people in Europe; especially as far as their access to vocational education and the labour market is concernded, these people face particular discrimination due to an increasing digitisation of contents and topics. Higher-quality jobs and more complex forms of vocational education and training are usually based on IT-based content. At the same time, blind people face - due to missing possibilities and tools - huge barriers, which are also responsible for the high unemployment rate of more than 70 % (!) on a European level. In most countries, existing solutions for the target group to pick up electronic learning content cannot be funded because of missing or weak social welfare systems and can, therefore, not be used

Aims
The DICOMP Transfer project adapts the only free tools package in Europe for picking up IT-based content that has been developed in an e-learning project (DICOMP-S.NET) and transfers it into the newly defined target countries (Spain, Poland, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece).

Expected results
The tools package consists of a screen reader software, a speech synthesiser, a tutor training programme, and a fully comprehensive user documentation. During adaptation phase, existing contents and tools will be, based on a detailed specification analysis in the new target countries, adapted to the new specifications. During project implementation phase, these tools will be - accompanied by an information campaign for companies and institutions dealing with vocational education and training - transferred to the new target countries and widely used there.

Program
Life Long Learning Program – LEONARDO DA VINCI – Transfer of Innovation

Duration
01/10/2009-30/09/2011