Desktop project

meeting in Barcelona

 


The4th meeting of the delegates of the Order’s and Sisters’ Centres takingpart in the DESkTOP project subsidised by the European Erasmus+ programme metin Barcelona at the Provincial Curia of the Hospitaller Order.

Atthe Barcelona meeting the delegates discussed the progress made in their care centresusing the “Mefacilyta DESkTOP” application built  by the Spanish Vodafone Foundation which makesit possible to create tailor-made learning programmes for people with disabilitieswhich are easily accessible by mobile phones phones and tablets.

Thepurpose of the project is to develop a multimedia mobile application tofacilitate independent learning by people with disabilities and to write ateaching manual for teachers in the centres using the new technologies.

Progresswith the work to date is quite encouraging, considering that therepresentatives of all the centres said that they had attained the targetnumber of users of the “Mefacilyta DESkTOP” application (including Co-workers andusers with disabilities). In the coming months, each partner will be organisinga local event to disseminate the work and the results of the project withintheir own territories. In July, a new meeting is scheduled to be held in Madrid(10-14 July) attended by some people with disabilities who are taking part inthe teaching activities under the European project.


 TheDESkTOP project is financed with the support of the European Commission.

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