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Czech Technical University in Prague

The Support Centre for Students with Special Needs at MU cooperates on this project with three specialist facilities at Czech Technical University in Prague.

1. The TEREZA Centre at Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering CTU in Prague was established in 1992 as a part of the Tempus ES programme, and is one of the longest-functioning centres concerned with support for the studies of the visually impaired in the CR. It is established as an informatics-technology facility; for its target groups (visually impaired students of universities - not only CTU - and secondary schools) it provides education and consulting in the area of information technologies, mathematics and the English language and it also publishes electronic publications taking into consideration the demands of visually impaired students.

2. The Research and Development Centre (RDC) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU, was established in 2001 as a research-development centre for mobile networks. The current RDC team involved in the eScribe project has been working with applying technologies for the deaf since 2008. The RDC works in close collaboration with the Czech Union of the Deaf and is active in publishing at conferences both in the CR and abroad (INSPO, ICCHP). As a significant activity, RDC organized the RDC Challenge student workshop where the individual projects were introduced to students of Czech universities and where courses in principles of communication with the deaf (conducted by the Czech Union of the Deaf) and in effective methods of helping the blind (conducted by the non-profit organization Okamžik) were taught.

3. The Centre for Information and Consulting Services at CTU has a long-standing experience of providing practical services to students and applicants with special needs. The target group - applicants and students with specific learning disorders - constitute the largest group amidst the variously impaired persons that the counsellors at the Handicap Consulting Service work with.

The TEREZA Centre's participation in activities:

• Standardization of the digitalization methods for persons with visual impairment (as a part of key activity Innovations in the accessibility of study materials)
• Unification and standardization  of libraries and library catalogues for persons with special needs (as a part of key activity Innovations in the accessibility of study materials)
• Development of didactic and technological tools for education of visually impaired persons (development of applications for recording of mathematical and otherwise symbolical texts) (as a part of key activity Innovations in didactic tools and methods)
• Production of e-learning materials for visually impaired persons (as a part of key activity Innovations in didactic tools and methods)

RDC's participation in activity:

• Coordination of visualisation and speech-to-text reporting of spoken languages and educational programme for visualisers and speech-to-text reporters (as a part of key activity Innovations in the accessibility of real-time communication)

The Centre for Information and Consulting Services's participation in activities:

• Standardization of the testing of skills and knowledge (as a part of key activity Innovations in didactic tools and methods).