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:

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: