Funding:
Erasmus+
Type of resource:
Manuals
Target group:
Persons with intellectual disabilities and trainers
Description:
The ENTELIS+ project aims at developing and implementing innovative methods and practices to foster inclusive education and promote common values, as well as enhancing the digital skills and competences of digitally excluded groups, particularly persons with disabilities of all ages, through strategic public and private partnerships. The ENTELIS+ project aims at having an impact on three levels: 1) Raising awareness about the importance of accessibility as an enabler for inclusive learning and teaching, 2) Developing the digital skills of persons with disabilities and older persons so that they can participate in the digital society, 3) Enhancing the capacity of the key actors in charge of the design and implementation of facilitating frameworks. Partners in this project are: European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD), AIAS Bologna Onlus, Funka Nu AB, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, European University Cyprus, Association for the Advancement of the Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE), ATEMPO, Saint John of God Community Services clg., Vocational Training Center MARGARITA, Association of European Border Regions
Geographic coverage:
Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Germany
Level of education:
Post-secondary
Education setting:
Non-formal
Timeframe:
Long-term
Sustainability:
Completed
Digital tools involved:
Kahoot!, emails, google translate, Text-to-speech and speech-to-text functions, video maker, PowerPoint
Competences aimed:
- Accessibility: Training of people with intellectual disabilities and their trainers on what accessibility and digital accessibility is, the people with intellectual disabilities' rights to accessibility and how to transform documents, other media, and websites in order to become accessible for all.
- Digital skills: They were trained to use and transform documents and other media in order to become accessible. They enhanced their digital skills by using software and applications and experimented on how to make transformations in order to reach accessibility. They also enhanced their digital skills by sending emails and keeping a friend relationship with beneficiaries from other countries, during the pen pals subproject of ENTELIS+.
- Social skills: They enhanced their social skills by using software and applications and experimented on how to make transformations in order to reach accessibility. They trained on what information can be shared during a conversation with a new friend, in terms of personal data and GDPR.
Level of implementation:
- Methodological: Training of trainers
- Learner’s
- Social
Pillars of importance:
- Successful contribution to the implementation of UNCRPD: Article 8 - Awareness-raising, Article 9 – Accessibility, Article 24 – Education
- Impact: thirty people were involved in the training. The training enhanced the theoretical and practical knowledge of service providers and people with intellectual disabilities regarding accessibility and digital skills. Service providers will use the knowledge acquired to create educational programs and accessible resources, while people with intellectual disabilities will now be able to acknowledge their rights to accessibility ad alter resources to make them accessible.
- Innovation: Creation of accessible educational material
ETCF:
- identify accessibility and AT use barriers, identify opportunities for AT use and accessibility
- select, create & modify, share
- information & media literacy, communication, content creation, safety (responsible use), problem solving
More information:
- Program site Program site: https://entelisplus.entelis.net/
- Contact info Leader: omor.ahmed@easpd.eu, tel: +32 2 233 7720, Greek partner: research.development@eeamargarita.gr, tel: +30 210 613 34 81
Full reference:
Entelis+ (2022). The project. Retrieved June 15, 2022, from https://entelisplus.entelis.net/the-project/