ValorVIP
- Funded with the support of: Directorate General for Education and Training’s Leonardo da Vinci programme.
- Partners: bfi Steiermark, bfw Duren, European Blind Union
- Duration: 1/12/06-30/11/07
This project is disseminating, organising and presenting a conference and report on past and present successful projects (Leonardo da Vinci projects in particular) concerning people who are blind or vision imparied. The project will have a focus on employment of people with vision impairments and present results of research about barriers for the target group in the areas of education, IT and learning environments. BFW Graz are leading this project and the conference took place on September 20th and 21st 2007 in Graz, Austria.
The project also look at accessibility in education and training:
- with regard to information and communication technology
- with regard to language
- with regard to mobility
- with regard to the learning environment
- with regard to the training organisation
Conference Invitation - Valorisation of project results for Blind and Visually Impaired People
The group of blind and visually impaired people still faces discrimination and disadvantages in the European society, on the labour market and in education and training systems. During the last few years a range of innovative development projects, particularly within the Leonardo da Vinci programme, have been created throughout Europe that, if adequately distributed and utilised, will reduce the barriers in vocational education and training.
It is a central concern of the ValorVIP conference to match the demand for innovative concepts and approaches to reduce barriers with offers, products and results from EU projects.