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Project Description:
Internet Resource:
Area(s) of Application:
Social and Vocational Integration
Relevant Player(s):
User Organization, Research Institute, University, Other
Thematic Issue(s):
Training / Methods, Recommendations, Possibilities, Obstacles,
Prerequisites
Abstract:
During the TIDE Pilot Action and the Bridge phase user involvement
and user participation is recognized as a basic principle for
all projects. The TIDE pilot phase evaluation realized, that
"the most successful projects had the enthusiastic and
active involvement of established, formal user organisations".
FORTUNE (Forum of user-ORganisations Training for Usability
and Networking in Europe) is a support action organised as a
training and networking for end-users. After the training the
graduates will offer support to R&D projects. The objectives
of FORTUNE are: to facilitate participation of user organisations
in R&D, to qualify more users (which represent user organisations)
with disabilities and elderly people for the participation in
European R&D, to improve European exchange of experiences
by user information networking; to increase the level of interaction
with user societies in the countries of Europe and the European
Forum; to disseminate information and encourage the uptake of
new Telematics applications, to provide an expert user forum
to Telematics for the assessment of the programme and its sector
TIDE.
In the project important self-help organisations cooperate as
partners with knowledgeable institutions skilled in European
R&D. The concept of national contacts in the European countries
and the involvement of the European Forum and AAATE ensure a
European dimension and provide potential for information dissemination.
The core of the project is the users' qualification for full
participation in R&D programmes and projects, with the help
of peer user experts and assistive technology and project management
specialists. FORTUNE provides a resource book, a WWW helpdesk
and an expert user forum to Telematics.
Editor:
Inmaculada Placencia Porrero, Egidio Ballabio
Publisher:
IOS Press
,
Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington, DC
,
1998
ISBN / ISSN:
90 5199 406 0
Relevant Pages:
139-142
Project Name:
FORTUNE Project (TAP DE 9231)
Name of Institution
Partners: FTB, BAGH, COCEMFE, CEAPAT, FFO, REHAB-NOR AS, NGR,
IRV; National Contacts: Fortec, Vlicht v.z.w., Danish Centre,
ISAK, UNAPEI, BAGH, ICS-FORTH, Work Research Centre LTD., SIVA,
ADAPTH asbl, IRV, FFO, FORMEM, COCEMFE, HSO, FST, CoRE
European Context:
Telematics Application Programme, Disabled and Elderly Sector,
3rd TIDE Congress, 23-25 June 1998, Helsinki
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