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Project reference: 06-IRL01-S2G01-00061-1
ÉIRE
MDVI ACTIVE Project
The overall aim of the project is that, through transnational collaboration, the participants will explore and identify issues
for lifelong learning in the development of people with multiple disabilities and visual impairment during their transition
towards active citizenships. The project beneficiaries are people who have special educational needs, who have left the
formal educational system in their Member State, and for whom the identified the need to increase their capacity to play an
active part in society and to improve their potential employability by acquiring or updating basic and general skills. The
Learning Partnership and its Work Groups includes a range of expertise – such as adult learners, vocational trainers, special
education teachers, university lecturers and researchers, together with parental and user organisations – and it will look at
the issues involved in enabling this target group to develop their active citizenship, including routes to forms of work,
continuing education, personal and social development, and the methodologies, materials and staff training required to
achieve this.
Duration: 3 years Funding year: 1 st
Area(s) covered
Project Objectives
Target Group(s)
Active citizenship. Arts, music, culture
Basic skills. Consumer education
Education for parents. Environment
Gender issues. Health, Learning about European countries/the
European Union, Information technology. Intercultural issues
Languages. Media, Sustainable development
Strategy for stimulating/promoting adult learners’ demand for learning
Experimentation with new pedagogical approach(es)
Guidance / counselling or other support services
Management of adult education organisation / institution
Methods for providing accreditation of competencies
COMPOSITION OF THE PARTNERSHIP
Coordinating institution
Name of the organisation: St Joseph's School for the Visually Impaired
Name of the contact person: Mary Leonard
Address: Gracepark Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
E-mail: mleonard.stjosephs@indigo.ie
Tel: 00 353 1 8373635
Fax: 00 353 1 8373884
Website: www.stjosephsvi.ie
Partners
Palacky University Olomouc, CZ
Institutte for Blinde og Svagsynede, DK
Arla Institute, FI
Sudbayerische Wohn- und Werkstatten fur Blinde und Sehbehinderte gGmbH, DE
Sjonstoo Islands and Blindravinnustofan, IS
Lega del Filo d’Oro Onlus, IT
ONCE Direccion General Adjunta de So Sociales para Afiliados, ES
Resource Centre Vision/Ekeskolan, SE
Gymnasieforvaltningen Tullangsskolan, SE
Disabled persons
Migrants/travellers/ethnic or other minorities
Persons living in rural or disadvantaged areas
Economically or socially disadvantaged group, unemployed, prisoners.
Local community groups. Marginalised groups
Senior citizens. Women
Young adults at risk of social marginalisation
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