Project Partners - ItactI Consortium
The development of a tactile interface peripheral for the visually
impaired requires a project of European scale in order to represent the full
scope of required technology, users and suppliers across several industries.
The European-wide expertise of the project consortium is essential to generate
results applicable at a European level.
The project consortium with members from Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom
and Lithuania is well balanced and highly qualified to undertake the tasks at
hand. There is good representation of end users: associations for the blind,
including a vocational college for blind persons, research expertise within
university based research institutes and industry, combined with participation
of industrial partners that have both expertise in the design, manufacture and
marketing of Braille devices, and a good track record of exploiting the outcomes
of previous research projects. Further added value will come by way of technology
transfer from the research institutes to the industrial partners.
The following institutes and companies are part of the consortium - click the partner name in the table to open a page with full details:
| De Montfort University |
DMU
|
UK
|
| Smart Technology Group Limited |
SMART
|
UK
|
| Kaunas University of Technology |
KUT
|
Lithuania
|
| Metec AG |
METEC
|
Germany
|
| Associazione Nazionale Subvedenti |
ANS
|
Italy
|
The De Montfort University is the project coordinator and Smart Technology is the technical coordinator of the consortium.
The following subcontractors will be used in the ItactI programme,
and the institution to which they are contracted is shown:
| Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) |
DMU
|
UK
|
| Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA) |
ANS
|
Italy
|
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