Includ-ed, red europea de educación inclusiva

Résumé

A majority of Europe’s people with disabilities are unemployed (ANED figures state over 60%). There are many reasons for this. Many people with disabilities have advanced skills but suffer significant barriers to employment. This is an important issue which must be addressed. For others, skill acquisition must be facilitated. ViPi aims to support and facilitate the acquisition of basic ICT skills for those people with disabilities who lack them.

ViPi provides a “one-stop-shop” interactive portal & learning environment for ICT skills by delivering:

• - a multilevel training resource (training curriculum, material, handbook);
• - a comprehensive multilingual portal, with;
• - an embedded multilingual social community (for VET centres, people with disabilities, ICT training centres, etc.), using the latest social media, facilitating interactive information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration, with access to all;
• - an accessible (WCAG 2.0) multilingual Web 2.0 enabled online learning environment for ICT for people with disabilities and their trainers, with an interactive and extensive repository of interoperable SCORM compliant learning objects (LOs) that focus on basic ICT literacy to support  the acquisition of core skills by  people with disabilities, in order to facilitate  their entry into or sustain their employment in, the regular labour market;
• - LOs will be enriched with intuitive mobile and internet/PC based educational/serious games;
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The final outcome is an entire set of applications and services that is streamlined via a blended educational and pedagogical framework, making full usage of the interaction possibilities offered by web 2.0, and localised, tested, piloted and subsequently fine-tuned with GR, BE, LT, UK and CY end-user communities.

The created ViPi-skills platform http://www.vipi-skills.eu/ equally acts as a “one-stop-shop” for trainer organizations to find and contribute LOs that they can integrate in existing learning environments and practices. Using Open Source Software, ViPi platform extensions can be easily integrated.

The ViPi platform is thus able to support a fully accessible and Open Source based pan-European learning network and community, bringing together key stakeholders and gatekeepers (VET, target groups, umbrella organizations), while offering a vast set of reusable (PC and Mobile) LOs, supported by Web 2.0 social services.

Project object:

See above.

Méthodologie

A pan-European survey was organized in all partner countries to identify the involved end-user and beneficiaries needs; Upon completion of this survey, the different outcomes were created, and then evaluated through pilots in all partner countries.

Objectif

People with disabilities

Trainers, teachers and educators of people with disabilities

Family members

VET centres

End-user organizations

Innovation de bonnes pratiques

Innovation consist in the fact that the training was combined with desktop and mobile gaming applications

Réalisation de bonnes pratiques

All results were achieved in different languages and are outlined on http://www.vipi-project.eu/download/.

Innovation consist in the fact that the training was combined with desktop and mobile gaming applications.

All outcomes are freely available.

See http://www.vipi-project.eu/download/ and http://vipi-project.eu/vipi-app

Dissemination material

• Project presentation (pdf)
• Project leaflet v1 (pdf), Project leaflet v2 (pdf)
• Project poster (pdf)
• Project banner v1 (pdf), Project banner v2 (pdf)
• Project video
• Virtual online multimedia travelling roadshow NL, LT, EL, EN, 31/08/2013 P PU + video

ViPi European dissemination conference EN (pictures, videos, presentations)

Partenaires du projet et autres intéressés

Following partners participated in the ViPi project:

• Steficon SA (Greece)
• PhoenixKM BVBA (Belgium)
• Hypertech S.A. Informatics & New Technologies (Greece)
• VŠĮ HITECO – High Technologies for Cooperation (Lithuania)
• Nottingham Trent University (United Kingdom)

G.M Eurocy Innovations Ltd (Cyprus)

Témoignage de bonnes pratiques

See our project video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm20tefuarw

Évaluation

Evaluation took place within the project through a range of pilots in all partner countries.