Partnership
The UPower project is carried out by a strong consortium with knowledge and experience from all relevant stakeholders: end users, education at different levels and accessibility expertise. The associated partners are supporting the project when it comes to promotion of user interaction, dissemination and exploitation of the project results.
Project coordinator:
TU Dortmund University (Germany), opens in new window
- department of Technology in Rehabilitation researches the support of the independence and self-determination of people with disabilities through technology
- contributes to numerous nationally and internationally funded interdisciplinary research projects
- members of the Technology in Rehabilitation team have many years of in-depth research experience in the field of accessibility of information and communication technology and digital participation of people with disabilities
Project partners:
European Blind Union (Europe), opens in new window
- represents the interests of all blind and partially sighted people in Europe
- aims to protect and promote the interests of all blind and visually impaired people in Europe
- works in areas such as: access to education, culture, rehabilitation and vocational training, information, aging and older people, employment, technology, rights, mobility and transportation, and gender
Funka (Sweden), opens in new window
- long experience in the area of digital accessibility in education
- consultancy with a close and unique relationship with the European disability rights movement
- deals with the accessibility of digital interfaces in terms of content, design and technology, ICT, web and documents in all possible formats
- on behalf of the European Commission, Funka has analysed approaches to monitoring website accessibility and provided recommendations on methodologies for the monitoring of compliance with the Web Accessibility Directive
Synthesis (Cyprus), opens in new window
- implements and initiates projects of social impact, with a focus on social inclusion and integration of people with fewer opportunities
- provides online and face to face training and develops
- educational materials relevant to human rights, entrepreneurship, peace education, employability and conflict resolution and others
- has nearly 20 years of experience in European cooperation
- develops methods and tools that combine the artistic and digital approaches
Associated partners:
- European Disability Forum, EU-level
- BAG Selbsthilfe, Germany
- DoBuS, Disabled Student Service, Germany
- Lebenshilfe NRW, Social Service Organisation, Germany
- University of Nicosia, Social Work programme, Cyprus
