European Developments in the Design and Implementation of Training for eInclusion

Abstract

Information and communication technologies offer an important opportunity for social, political and economic engagement of older and disabled people. The successful implementation of a policy on eInclusion is dependent on understanding the principles, practicalities and processes of a ’design for all’ programme. The aim of this paper is to describe those activities of the European Sixth Framework Programme IST Coordination Action ”Design for All @ eInclusion” which focus on training and education. The paper will focus on the need for students of ICT to learn more about the requirements of older and disabled users, the training needs with respect to higher and vocational education and the diverse ways in which those needs are being meet around Europe. The paper will describe a selection of case studies of best practice teaching in this area.