THE PROJECT
Description of the project
Aims
The principal objective of the project is to develop an online platform to interact with physical robots or in a virtual community, to implement with them specific teaching units for adults with disabilities. This goal leads offering this group the ability to access a normal activity, such as playing with robots. With this in mind it aims to help to promote the inclusion of disabled people. For this purpose, the consortium counts with experts on this target group.
Involve parents in teaching/learning activities to enhance the bond parent – child and strengthen their relationship is also a project purpose. The fact that there is a virtual community also allows playing in pairs. For this reason, physically separated adults could also play in a jointly way.
Target group
- Parents and other relatives of the people with intellectual disabilities, because of the game will be developed in such a way that combine a low intellectual difficulty with an adult design and psychology.
- Schools dealing with people with intellectual disabilities of all participating countries, because they will have available an online interactive platform to be used not only for improving the skills and competences of the people with ID, but also because of this platform will serve also as a mean of getting in touch and communicating with other professionals also involved in special education.
- Universities and other organizations training special education teachers, which are also an important target group for the project, because they will disseminate this tool among the future teachers.
- People with Intellectual Disabilities at all ages, because these tools will help then not only to foster their personal development, but also their social insertion.
Project results
- A platform, virtual community and real game
- A robot, which will be the element with which the user of the platform interacts.
- 10 Teaching units
ProMAs
ProMAs is a teachers’ and engineers’ NGO with the main aim to facilitate access to learning as a way to enhance life quality.Our members are involved in adult education and VET-they are certified as Trainers, Trainer of trainers, Specialists in Quality’s System, experienced in international multidisciplinary research projects to recognize the needs and the willingness of our target groups to make them feel active and useful in the society they live. Our main aim is facilitating access to develop key-competences in adult education in the age of lifelong learning. Some of our target groups are come from rural areas with poor material circumstances and we try to help them in the aspect of their vocational skills, educational knowledge and social inclusion.
This NGO collaborates with the social, educational and professional institutions of the region, with teachers and students from the high-schools, in a field of promoting and consolidate innovative methods for mentoring, providing knowledge, skills key competences.
Consellería de Cultura, Educación y Ordenación Universitaria
GDEducation has the responsibility of educational provision in Galicia, it is responsible for educational standards and the training and development of the schools. As part of the role, the organisation works with schools and school staff on the implementation of regional initiatives to meet school improvement priorities and to share in and support innovation in teaching, learning and school leadership.
Its general scope of action includes the education authority at a regional level, including the design of education programmes and plans for all the Galician Community Region, with more than 1500 school institutions in all the four Galician provinces. It represents the higher decision-making institution of the Galician Parliament with regard to the education sphere at all levels: primary schools, secondary, tertiary and VET institutions.
PARTNERS
Aldini Valeriani Institute
The Aldini Valeriani Institute is a secondary technical school located in Bologna, in the north of Italy.
The Aldini Institute is one of the most ancient school in Italy and Europe. Since 170 years it has been the fulcrum in the training of managers, technicians and skilled laborers.
Since 1884 the Aldini Institute has had a lot of transformations and it has enriched the educational supply with new technical and professional leanings in study. But the original mission is still current: to create and hold a deep bond between learning, new technologies, world of work, national and international industries.
The school is deeply connected to the territory and its story. During years teachers and students have rebuilted the mechanical evolution in the factories through the restoration of the machines and utensils and they have give birth to the Museum of Industrial Heritage, that provides documentary evidence of the local production activities from Renaissance to nowadays.
ATENEA Projects Lda. (Portugal)
Atenea is a company dedicated to the development and implementation of multimedia communication services, covering a wide range of areas: web, multimedia, design, marketing solutions, training, hosting…
Our team has a wide experience in the field, access to state-of-the-art technology and is at the vanguard of graphic design.
We believe in a multidisciplinary team that can generate communication products in every field and take different approaches to generate a comprehensive final product.
CEIS Formazione
CEIS Formazione is a spin-off of Gruppo CEIS, a large organization founded in Modena in 1982 and started a group of associations, cooperatives and organizations aimed to project and develop educational and health services based on the bio-psycho-social approach. Nowadays Gruppo CEIS is a consortium of 10 non-profit organizations employing more than 320 staff members and 250 volunteers. In particular CEIS Formazione provides trainings for professionals working in the field of education and socio-welfare.
Centro de Formación Profesional Daniel Castelao
“DANIEL CASTELAO” is a Vocational Training School which was founded in 1975 by a group of young teachers in a time when Spanish Vocational Training Educational System was beginning and there was an increasing demand of a big part of students who did not want to go to University but wanted to learn a job/profession. It is located in the centre of Vigo, the most important industrial city in Galicia. It has 350.000 inhabitants and its main industries are: Car Manufacturing, Commerce, Naval Manufacturing, Fishing and Services. Having this into account, the School provides vocational training for young people and adults in the following fields of studies: Electronics&Electricity, IT (Network Administration and Software Development), Commerce&Marketing and Business Administration. Besides, the school organises and provides Skilled Training Courses for unemployed people.
Społeczna Akademia Nauk
SAN is a private University situated in the third biggest city in Poland. SAN was established by the Association of Polish Educators in January 1995. Currently there are ca. 16 thousand students enrolled in the Academy. SAN offers PhD, MA and BA studies, post-graduate courses as well as specialized training courses on daily, evening and weekend and extramural basis. SAN is also very active in scientific research, the organisation of national and international conferences and publishing a scientific book.
Every year turnover of the University is about 17 millions Euro.
SAN employs 514 people ( academic, trainers and administration)