Braille Live

Up Coming Events and organisations

4 April 2009 TIRANA (Albania)
Access to Information Commission
Contact : EBU Office
Email : ebuoffice@euroblind.org

8 – 9 – 10 May 2009 LONDON (United Kingdom)
Mobility Commission
Contact : Jill Allen King
Email : jill.allenking@tiscali.co.uk

15 – 16 – 17 May 2009 DUBLIN (Ireland)
Europe for Citizen Seminar
Contact : EBU Office
Email : ebuoffice@euroblind.org

26 – 27 May 2009 MOSCOW (Russia)
Capacity Building Working Group
Contact : Alexander Neumyvakin
Email : oms@vos.org.ru

Until 8 March 2009 STRASBOURG (France)
DIALOGUE IN THE DARK – Exhibition
www.dialoguedanslenoir.com/en/dialogue-dans-le-noir-en/

30 March 2009 PARIS (France)
THIRD EUROPEAN E-ACCESSIBILITY FORUM – Conference
This Third European e-Accessibility Forum focuses on the application of new technologies for a better inclusion of people with disabilities at the workplace. Various situations will be considered, covering different needs related to training, mobility, access to information or communication and solutions will be presented, ranging from commercial products to research prototypes. The speakers are specialists involved in organisations representing users and consumers with disabilities, research organisations and companies operating at a European level or worldwide.

http://inova.snv.jussieu.fr/evenements/colloques/mobtel/Description/index_en.php

20 – 23 April 2009 WROCLOW (Poland)
Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments: Past Successes and Future Challenges

This is the sixth event in the CVHI international conference series on Assistive Technologies and Rehabilitation Engineering supported by the European Commission. CVHI is part of the CWST project, http://cwst.icchp.org.

Topics will deal with the engineering and scientific aspects of assistive technology for sensory impaired people.

Information soon available from:
www.elec.gla.ac.uk/Events_page/CVHI/cvhi

18 – 20 June 2009 COUPVRAY (France)
INTERNATIONAL BRAILLE CONGRESS

The Congress is organised by CINAL in Coupvray, the birth place of Louis Braille and in the Disneyland Convention Centre in Marne-la-Vallée. The programme will cover independence, social inclusion and access to knowledge. The Congress will result in the publication of 10 key political proposals to promote the visually impaired’s rights. A celebratory concert programme will be held in Paris at the end of the Congress.

http://www.cinal-dv2009.com/fr/le-congres-international-dv2009.html

5 – 10 July 2009 DUBLIN (Ireland)
ICEVI 7th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
This Conference is organised by ICEVI, the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment. Under the conference theme of ‘Living in a Changing Europe’, topic areas such as children, rehabilitation of adults, multi disabled, deaf blind, children and youth with Batten’s Disease are included.

http://www.icevidublin2009.org

1 – 27 September 2009 LEIPZIG (Germany)
DAISY 2009 – Conference
DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is the new standard for Digital Talking Books : it is a groundbreaking information technology for all people with reading difficulties, including the visually impaired and people with dyslexia and other handicaps. The Conference brings together users, developers and experts of DAISY and offers a technical strand, a public user forum and several workshops.
The programme is available in German and English on http://www.daisy2009.de/