Design for All for eInclusion

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The DfA@eInclusion Coordination Action (CA) aims to contribute towards the advancement of eInclusion in Europe through fostering design for all. Towards this end, DfA@eInclusion will continue, extend and enhance previous efforts targeted to the creation of a sound Design for All (DfA) interdisciplinary theoretical framework of reference and a set of proven engineering practices, by addressing the following strategic objectives:

Formal Project Description

Contract Title	Design for All for eInclusion
Project Acronym	DfA@eInclusion
Donor	European Union - FP6
Lead Partner	Future Worlds Center (CNTI)


Agreement n°	033838
Partners	The Danish Centre (DC), Denmark Next Generation for All (NG4All), the Netherlands Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas - Institute of Computer Science (FORTH-ICS), Greece Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft/Fraunhofer-Institut fur Angewandte Informationstechnik (FhG-FIT), Germany Middlessex University, Design for All Research Group, Middlesex University (MU), UK Integrated Studies, University of Linz (UoL), Austria Evangelische Stiftung Volmarstein (FTB), Germany National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland The National Centre for Personal Autonomy and Technical Aids (CEAPAT), Spain Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering (CVUT), The Czech Republic Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3 (UPS-IRIT), France Pannon University, Colour and Multimedia Laboratory at the Faculty of Information Technology (PU), Hungary The Delta Centre (SHDir), Norway State Institute of Information Technologies (SIIT), Lithuania VZW Toegankelijkheidsbureau (VZW-T), Belgium The Portuguese National Institute for the Rehabilitation (INR), Portugal The Estonian Foundation for the Visually Impaired (ENIF), Estonia Projects in Motion Ltd (PiM), Malta The Access Centre - Technical University of Košice (TUKE), Slovakia University of Ljubljana, Laboratory for Telecommunications (UNI-LJ-SI), Slovenia Swedish Handicap Institute (SHI), Sweden Central Remedial Clinic (CRC), Ireland

Cost of Action	€1,910,000
Grant	€1,650,000
Cost for FWC	€25,000
Grant for FWC	€25,000
Dates	01/01/2007 - 31/12/2009
Short Description	e-Accessibility project
Main Page	DfA@eInclusion
Website	http://www.dfaei.org

Overall objective(s)

To support to existing European initiatives to promote Design for All and in particular the European Design for All eAccessibility Network (EDeAN); Enhancement of existing partnerships between academic, research, user, and industrial communities to promote e-inclusion through adopting and promoting effective DfA practices; Facilitation of DfA knowledge spillovers across industry sectors and communities through appropriate mechanisms for knowledge transfer; Support the mainstreaming of accessibility in IST products and services through a series of dissemination activities.