Main purpose of the project „From Education to Inclusion“ (EDI) is to improve accessibility in environment, information and communication for blind and partially sighted people in order to enable their participation in all areas of life. In collaboration with the project partners, Teiresias Centre of MU (the Czech Republic) and Funka (Sweden), we will create, test and evaluate training modules on accessibility for people with visual impairment. Within the project we will at one hand improve competences of employees of local authorities who have direct impact on the level of accessibility for blind and partially sighted and on the other hand competences of leaders with visual impairment i.e. active advocates of rights within their community. All training modules, used methodology and good practice from involved partners will be summarized in the project intellectual outputs: 1) the toolkit for trainers, 2) the toolkit for employees of local authorities and 3) the toolkit for blind and partially sighted leaders. From a long-term perspective we are expecting a positive change in all areas of accessibility for people with visual impairment and most of all improvement of their social inclusion.
The goals of our project was: 1. improve accessibility for blind and partially sighted people in the physical environment, information and interpersonal communication, to enable them to participate fully in all areas of life. 2. To create educational modules in individual areas of accessibility (physical environment, information, interpersonal communication) for employees of towns and municipalities in the relevant positions. 3. To create educational modules in individual areas of accessibility (physical environment, information, interpersonal communication) for members of our organization the ÚNSS - active leaders. 4. Pilot test the developed training modules in individual areas of accessibility and evaluate their implementation. 5. To write toolkits on accessibility for employees of towns and municipalities in the relevant positions, for lecturers of educational modules and for active leaders from among the UNSS. 6. Disseminate the results of the project.
Main purpose of the project „From Education to Inclusion“ (EDI) has been to improve accessibility in environment, information and communication for blind and partially sighted people in order to enable their participation in all areas of life. In collaboration with the project partners, Teiresias Centre of Masaryk University (the Czech Republic) and Funka (Sweden), we have created, tested and evaluated training modules on accessibility for people with visual impairment. Within the project we at one hand improved competences of employees of local authorities who have direct impact on the level of accessibility for blind and partially sighted and on the other hand competences of leaders with visual impairment i.e. active advocates of rights within their community. All training modules, used methodology and good practice from involved partners have been summarized in the project intellectual outputs: 1) the toolkit for trainers, 2) the toolkit for employees of local authorities and 3) the toolkit for blind and partially sighted leaders. From a long-term perspective we expect a positive change in all areas of accessibility for people with visual impairment and most of all improvement of their social inclusion.