EDeAN comprises the European Design for All e-Accessibility Network that was established in July 2002, in accordance with the specific goals of the eEurope 2002 Action Plan. The European Commission, via the DG on Information Society, retains an active advisory role in helping EDeAN fulfil the eEurope Action Plan.
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The HERMES platform
HERMES, is the virtual networking platform of EDeAN, originally developed by the D4ALLnet(IST-2001-38833) project and currently supported by the DfA@eInclusion Coordination Action.
The IST Coordination Action “Design for All for eInclusion - DfA@eInclusion” (0033838) aims to contribute towards the advancement of eInclusion in Europe through fostering design for all. Towards this end, DfA@eInclusion will continue, extend and enhance previous efforts targeted to the creation of a sound Design for All (DfA) interdisciplinary theoretical framework of reference and a set of proven engineering practices, by addressing the following strategic objectives:
- Support to existing European initiatives to promote Design for All and in particular the EDeAN ;
- Enhancement of existing partnerships between academic, research, user, and industrial communities to promote e-inclusion through adopting and promoting effective DfA practices;
- Facilitation of DfA knowledge spillovers across industry sectors and communities through appropriate mechanisms for knowledge transfer;
- Support the mainstreaming of accessibility in IST products and services through a series of dissemination activities.
The project is coordinated by:
Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara" IFAC-CNR
The project partners are:
- National Research Council (CNR), Italy (Coordinator)
- The Danish Centre (DC), Denmark
- Next Generation for All (NG4All), the Netherlands
- Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas - Institute of Computer Science (FORTH-ICS), Greece
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft/Fraunhofer-Institut fur Angewandte Informationstechnik (FhG-FIT), Germany
- Middlesex University (MU), UK
- Integrated Studies, University of Linz (UoL), Austria
- Evangelische Stiftung Volmarstein (FTB), Germany
- National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland
- The National Centre for Personal Autonomy and Technical Aids (CEAPAT), Spain
- Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering (CVUT), The Czech Republic
- Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3 (UPS-IRIT), France
- Pannon University, Colour and Multimedia Laboratory at the Faculty of Information Technology (PU), Hungary
- The Delta Centre (SHDir), Norway
- State Institute of Information Technologies (SIIT), Lithuania
- VZW Toegankelijkheidsbureau (VZW-T), Belgium
- TThe Portuguese National Institute for the Rehabilitation (INR), Portugal
- The Estonian Foundation for the Visually Impaired (ENIF), Estonia
- Projects in Motion Ltd (PiM), Malta
- The Access Centre - Technical University of Ko?ice (TUKE), Slovakia
- University of Ljubljana, Laboratory for Telecommunications (UNI-LJ-SI), Slovenia
- Swedish Handicap Institute (SHI), Sweden
- Central Remedial Clinic (CRC), Ireland
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