LEBIC participate in European Union 7th Framework Programme TACMON

that aims to develop innovative tactile display technology, which allows to display the text in Braille, as well as graphical information on electronically renewable, user-friendly tactile surface. Reasons for implementing the project There are around 7.4 million visually impaired people in the European Union. TACMON project is to create innovative and affordable systems that meet the needs of people with sight problems need. High unemployment amongst the disabled is a serious social and economic problem for the EU, as continued exclusion from productive activity requires increasing state-funded support for social programs. There is a need for effective assistive technology to facilitate employment of the visually impaired and for industry to better be able to meet anti-discrimination legislation. Project objectives Develop a computer connectible device with display that allows visually impaired people to read directly from a computer text in Braille, as well as receive other graphic information. To facilitate the visually impaired people approach to electronic information, improve their opportunities for integration into the labor market. Target groups Visually impaired people Special educational institutes, organizations and companies working with visually impaired Project partners Project is being implemented in collaboration of 17 partners from 10 countries: TACMON project coordinator is Hungary Information technologies association - Informatika Vállalkozások Szövetsége, also participating four R&D centers form Switzerland, Spain, Hungary and Scotland, and also 12 technology transfer and innovation centers and companies from Latvia, UK, Malta, Greece, Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland, which organizes and gives its investment in development system. Informatikai Vállalkozások Szövetsége (coordinator), HUNGARY Eurexcel Membership Projects Limited, UNITED KINGDOM Latvijas Elektrorūpniecības Biznesa Inovāciju Centrs (LEBIC), LATVIA MITTS Foundation For Information Technology Accessibility, MALTA Sjednocena Organizace Nevidomych A Slabozrakych CR, CZECH REPUBLIC Koinonia Tis Pliroforias Anoichti Stis Eidikes Anagkes e-ISOTIS, GREECE Informatika a Látássérültekért Alapítvány, HUNGARY METEC Ingenieur-Aktiengesellschaft Medizintechnik-Feinwerktechnik AG, GERMANY M.S.F. Cyberall Access Ltd, CYPRUS Electronic Systems Design Ltd, Malta SIA‘’Micro Dators’’, LATVIA 77 Elektronika Mőszeripari Kft, HUNGARY CSEM Centre Suisse D'electronique et de Microtechnique SA - Recherche et Developpement, SWITZERLAND University of Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM Centre de Recerca i Investigacio de Catalunya S.A., SPAIN MFKK Feltalálói és Kutató Központ Szolgáltató Kft (MFKK Invention and Research Center Services Co. Ltd.) , HUNGARY  More information about the TACMON project please find at: http://tacmon.mfkk.hu/

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 November 2009 )