On 25 November 2021, AAATE members from Egypt, Cyprus, Malta, Italy, Portugal, Faroe Islands, UK, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Lithuania, Bulgaria joined us for our last of year online Aperitivo. It proved once more how fruitful it is to learn from each other and exchange about the many things going in our countries in the areas […]
We are happy to let you know that the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at TU Dortmund University is seeking to fill four professorships. Through interaction between engineering and natural sciences as well as social and cultural studies, the university aspires to drive both technological innovations and progress in knowledge and methodology. The Department of Rehabilitation […]
The National Disability Authority Research Promotion Scheme 2021/22 is now open for applications. The focus of research topics for this year is: Assistive Products and Consumer Products that support choice and control for Persons with Disabilities. The National Disability Authority, subject to funding, operates a Research Promotion Scheme every two years. The purpose is to […]
With great sadness we heard that our colleague and friend Gunnar Fagerberg passed away on the 4th of October. Gunnar has been an active member of the Assistive Technology community in Europe for many years. Probably his most prominent and eye catching contribution was the HEART study that he led together with his colleague Thomas […]
During the recent EASPD conference The Future is Now: Person Centred Technology to empower people and disability services I launched the idea for the European Commission to facilitate the establishment of a European Innovation Partnership on the Digital Divide. European Innovation Partnerships (EIP’s) are more or less self-organising collaborative ecosystems that without much top-down coordination […]
Joint Conference on Digital Inclusion, Assistive Technology & Accessibility We are excited to open the Call for Contributions for the first joint ICCHP-AAATE conference on Digital Inclusion, Assistive Technology & Accessibility, taking place 11-15 July 2022 in Lecco, Italy under the shared chairmanship of Katerina Mavrou (general chair, European University of Cyprus and President of […]
In May and June, AAATE staff and members gathered for online Aperitivos, an informal new meeting format introduced to help members stay in touch and have the opportunity to exchange on topics of and around their daily work. In May, we heard from David Banes about the AT Service Resilience Survey which intends to explore how […]
As a founding member of the Global Alliance of Assistive Technology Organizations (GAATO), AAATE is actively supporting the Global Consultation on Grand Challenges in AT Outcomes and Impact. It will do so by organising a Regional Consultation for Europe involving many European AT stakeholders. The principle aim of the consultation is to identify a set […]
It is an open secret when writing reports for research or consultancy that the most crucial part is the executive summary. In any project, at some point, it will be agreed that most of the audience will only ever read the executive summary. Research reports are long, complex and time-consuming, and as a result, the […]
Online seminar on occasion of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, #GAAD2120 May 2021organized by AAATE, supported by the TRIPS consortium TRIPS is a 3-year European project that proposes to a co-design approach that allows people, disabled by inaccessible environments, to take the leading role in designing accessible and useable transport systems. By focusing on the […]
