ValorViP
Name:
ValorViP
Period:
January 2007 - December 2007
Subject:
It is the purpose of the Valor VIP project to distribute, valorise and sustainably utilise project results from Leonardo da Vinci
pilot projects (amongst others) in the areas of barrier-free vocational education and training for blind and visually impaired
people.
pilot projects (amongst others) in the areas of barrier-free vocational education and training for blind and visually impaired
people.
Strand:
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Aim of the project
The Valor VIP project refers to the target group of blind and visually impaired people, a group that still faces discrimination and disadvantage in the European society, the labour market and the education and training systems. While the postulate of accessibility for disadvantaged and sensory impaired people seems an important and forward-looking principle, the area of vocational education and training is, throughout Europe, far from being barrier-free. Particularly the new EU member states - but also most of the old ones - urgently need to catch up and develop with regard to accessibility in vocational education and training for blind and visually impaired people.
At the same time, during the last few years a range of innovative development projects, particularly within the Leonardo da Vinci II project, have been created throughout Europe that, if adequately distributed and utilised, will result in reducing the barriers in vocational education and training.
Therefore, it is a central concern of the Valor VIP valorisation project to record objectively and on a scientific basis, with adequate methods, the demand for innovative concepts and approaches to reduce barriers in vocational education and training for blind and visually impaired people and to match this demand, in a thematic valorisation conference, with offers, products and results from completed Leonardo da Vinci pilot projects. In order to examine the various barrier dimensions and perspectives and in order to allow for actual supply-demand matching of project results, the matching is to be done in a number of thematically focussed workshops within a thematic conference.
The project puts particular emphasis on the follow-up phase that is characterised by offering broad support for the actual implementation of the project results in individual organisations for blind and visually impaired people in Europe and by making available the project results on a broad basis.
Project coordination:
Berufsförderungsinstitut Steiermark
Mariengasse 24
8020 Graz
http://www.bfi-stmk.at/home/angebot/projekte/valorVIP.php
<nbr>;Official ValorViP homepage
http://www.valorvip.eu