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Partnership

Type of partners

• Public institutions:

International

EC-JRC-ISIS: European Commission Joint Research Centre -Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety: General, scientific and technical co-ordination of the Project; ACCESS TO EDUCATION Special Interest User Group;ACCESS TO EDUCATION Forum, Chat Line, Help Desk

• Schools:

Scuola Elementare Dante Alighieri Arona 2 - Mercurago (Novara), Italy: Co-ordinator of the validation of the voice-to-text subtitling prototype;

Scuola Elementare Livio Tempesta, Lecce, Italy: Voice-to-text with Albanian/Kossovo immigrated

Scuola Elementare e Materna, 1° Circolo, Cantù (Como), Italy; Tests with AFA Association

Liceo Artistico Frattini, Varese, Italy: Voice-to-text, deaf students and arts

Liceo Scientifico Oriani, Ravenna, Italy: Voice-to-text for deaf students

Liceo Scientifico Omodeo, Mortara (Pavia), Italy: Voice-to-text for teaching foreign languages

Liceo Scientifico, Pavia, Italy: Tests on subtitling prototype

Istituto Odontotecnico IPSIA, Pavia, Italy;

IPSIA L. Cremona, Pavia, Italy;

Scuola Elementare 3° Circolo, Pavia, Italy;

Istituto Professionale Statale Agricoltura e Ambiente aggr. IPSIA Marelli, Milano, Italy: Tests with Livio Tempesta school Lecce;Informatics group and cybergirls

Liceo Scientifico Statale, Gavirate (Varese), Italy;

Istituto Tecnico Statale di Comunicazioni Multimediali (ITSOS), Milan, Italy; Video-cassettes and video-conferences;

Istituto Cobianchi, Verbania, Italy: Informatics groups and Web site

Liceo Classico Dante Alighieri, Ravenna, Italy:

IPSSCT Sraffa, Crema, Italy: Students with disability group;

Istituto Professionale Statale Industria e Artigianato per Sordomuti T. Pendola, Padova, Italy: Students with hearing impairment

Istituto Tecnico Statale Commerciale per Sordi A. Magarotto, Padova, Italy;

Institut für Hör- und Sehbildung (IHSB), Linz, Austria: Deaf or blind user needs analysis and validation of voice-to-text subtitling

Bundes Blinden Institut, Wien, Austria

Odilieninstitut, Graz, Austria: Tests with IHSB and Kepler University;

Sonderpädagogisches Zentrum, Freistadt/Unterweißenbach, Austria;

Ecole Communale de la Ville de Chimay, Belgium;

Group of schools linked to the AV-Mediendidaktik Association, Husum (Germany);

• Universities:

Educational Endeavour Computer Science for the Blind, Kepler University of Linz, Austria: Access to the Internet for persons with visual or hearing impairment

University of Political Sciences, Genova, Italy: Tests with FIADDA Association

Disability Group of the University of Padova, Italy: Integration of students with disability

Institute of Special Education of the University of Bologna, Italy: Disability working-group with RAI Italian Television

Polo Didattico e Tecnologico di Ricerca di Crema, Italy: Studies and workshops on technology and disability

Department of Electronics of the University of York Heslington York, United Kingdom: Research on music; sounds to images conversion

• Other public institutions (libraries, etc.)

IRFED, Istituto Ricerca Formazione Documentazione, Varese, Italy: Training of remedial teachers on disability;

Provveditorato agli Studi di Varese, Italy: H-Groups of the provincial super-intendents of public education

Ufficio Disabilità della Provincia di Varese, Italy;

Provveditorato agli Studi di Pavia, Italy;

CDF: Centro Documentazione e Formazione, Nuove Tecnologie per l'Integrazione, Provveditorato Studi, Vicenza, Italy: Documentation on disability

APPRENDISOFT: Centro Documentazione Handicap, Provveditorato Studi, Verona, Italy;

ASL: Azienda Sanitaria Locale, Pavia, Italy;

ASL: Azienda Sanitaria Locale, Lecce, Italy;

Ospedale di Circolo, Sezione di Audiovestibologia, Varese, Italy: Video-conferencing remote control of prosthesis and re-education therapy

Ospedale Gaslini, Genova, Italy: Internet contacts with schools and help for children being in the hospital

Camphill Seminar für Anthroposophische Heilerziehung und Sozialtherapie am Bodensee, Heimsonderschule Föhrenbühl, Heiligenberg, Germany: Group therapy via the Internet.

• Non-profit organisations (associations, etc.):Associations of the hearing impaired

FEPEDA: Fédération Européenne de Parents d'Enfants Déficiants Auditifs, c/o FIADDA: Co-ordination of contacts with the Associations of persons with disability

FIADDA: Famiglie Italiane Associate Difesa Diritti Audiolesi, Genova, Italy;

ALFA: Associazione Lombarda Famiglie Audiolesi, Milan, Italy: Liaison group with schools H-groups

AFA: Associazione Famiglie Audiolesi, Cantù (Como), Italy: Stenotype subtitling of conferences;

CECOEV: Centro Comunicare è Vivere, Milano, Italy: Collaboration in films subtitling for RAI and Mediaset television broadcasters

AFABI: Associazione Famiglie Bambini Ipoacusici, Varese, Italy:

Centro Consulenza Pedagogica, Trento, Italy: Pedagogic aspects in teaching for students with visual and hearing impairment

ANIR: Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti Religione, Italy: Coordination of teachers of religion;

APEDAF: Association Parents Enfants Déficients Auditifs Francophones, Bruxelles, Belgium;

TELECONTACT, Bruxelles, Belgium;

Handicap et Eglise, Charleroi, Belgium: Liaison group of church and disability.

ANPEDA: Association Nationale de Parents d'Enfants Déficiants Auditifs, Paris, France;

Cochlée Ile de France, Association de Parents d'Enfants Implantés, Paris, France;

NDCS, National Deaf Children's Society, London, United Kingdom.

• Private companies:

Software houses and continous training centres

Software Solutions, Milano, Italy: Development of voice-to-text (for the deaf)

FBL, Mortara (Pavia), Italy: Development of voice-to-text (for the deaf) and text-to-voice (for the blind)

ObjectWay, Milano, Italy Web sites management

Access Systems International, Bruxelles, Belgium: Text-to-voice and other aids for the blind

NET: New Educational Technologies, Colorno (Parma), Italy: Continuous training centre and presentations to schools

CTL, Centro formazione, Milano, Italy: Continuous training centre and contacts with Chile

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