LEARN-ED 
Learning and Educational Access using
Remote Networks - Enabling the Disabled
Project description also available 
in
English, 
in Slovak and 
in Hungarian.
Overview of Project
The principle objective of the project is to demonstrate that telecommunications
technologies can assist students with disabilities to participate in the
life of a University or Higher Education Establishment. This primary objective
has the following sub-goals:
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To test new advanced multimedia network and telecommunications services
for usability and usefulness, and to demonstrate the most important ones
on local and wide area networks that are available to Higher Education
Establishments.
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To develop and deploy new services and network technologies in the partner
sites in Central Europe that take into account the research and experience
that has been achieved in Western Europe.
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To encourage investment in new technologies and services that reflects
the needs of students with disabilities.
The project will develop and test remote access techniques that can be
used by students with disabilities. These will be based on the technologies
most appropriate to the individual country. This will involve the installation
of suitable pilot network infrastructures where these are not available,
the adaptation of terminals so that they can be used with disabled students,
and the development or deployment of services. The specific techniques
developed within the project will be tested for their value to the students
and compared with the possibilities currently available to them.
The impact of the project is expected to be:
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Cross fertilisation of knowledge between Western and Eastern Europe.
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Improvement in the access to the life of Higher Education Establishments
for Students with Disabilities.
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Subsequent exploitation of the techniques by the Higher Education Establishments.
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Subsequent exploitation of the techniques by the industrial partners.
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Subsequent exploitation by other Higher Education Establishments and industrial
companies to whom the work of the project will be disseminated.
Partners:
MicroCentre, University
of Dundee, UK (Projektleitung)
Department of Informatics,
Comenius University Bratislava, SK
Slovak Telecommunication, Bratislava, SK
KFKI Research Institute for Measurement
& Computing Techniques, Budapest, HU
Zoltan Meszaros Company, Budapest, HU
fortec, Research Group
on Rehabilitation Technology, Vienna University of Technology
Contact: zagler@fortec.tuwien.ac.at