New Project Promoted by Hospitality Europe
The EuropeanOffice of the Hospitaller Order in Brussels – Hospitality Europe – is delighted to learn from the communication issuedby the Agency responsible for the European Union’s “Erasmus+” programme that it will finance the latest Europeanproject proposal recently submitted by the Hospitality Europe office, for theeducation and sociocultural inclusion of people with disabilities using new thelatest telecommunications technologies.
The newproject to be financed is entitled “Learning Through InnovativeTechnologies Boosting Equality” – LET IT BE) and willbegin in the coming months, and be completed by the summer of 2020. It intendsto continue and step up the work already done with the previous DESKTOP projectin which several centres caring for people with disabilities belonging to theOrder and the Sisters Hospitallers in Europe took part, and which created ateaching app for people with intellectual disabilities using tablets andsmartphones. This latest project sets out to enhance the contents and theinteractivity of the mobile app and to test devices to enable people withphysical disabilities and the hearing-impaired to use the programme. Thecentres taking part will be the same ones that participated in the previousproject. with the addition of the San José Institute Foundation in Madrid. Events will be held nationallyand throughout Europe to disseminate the results of the project and also toinvolve other care and educational facilities for people with disabilities inthe European Provinces of the Hospitaller Order.
The projectwill be coordinated by the Juan Ciudad Foundation in Madrid and will besupported with a European grant of over 277,000 euro. It will focus not only ondigital teaching aids but in particular on the rights of people withdisabilities, with the drafting of a European protocol to promote them and fosterrespect for them in the fields of education and social care.
The LET IT BE project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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