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University of Macedonia, Greece (UOM)

The University of Macedonia will

  • coordinate the project together with the Polyplano Euroconsultants,
  • participate at the International Steering Committee,
  • participate in all partners' meetings,
  • be responsible to carry out the Action 1: Extension of the Library Services of the University of Macedonia to the visually impaired students,
  • install a special workstation for the use of blind students,
  • organize the kick-off and the final meeting to be held in Thessaloniki
  • participate in the training courses to be help in the project

Contact person:

Mrs. Anna Fragkou, Library Director
Egnatia 156, P.O. Box 1591
540 06 Thessaloniki, GREECE
tel: +30-31 891753
fax: +30-31 857794
email: fragkou@uom.gr

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Polyplano Euroconsultants, Greece (PEC)

The Polyplano Euroconsultants will

  • coordinate the project at International level,
  • assist the project partners at managerial and administrative level,
  • participate and help at the organizing of project meetings
  • participate at the International Steering Committee.
PEC will also assist the University of Cyprus in the Preliminary Study for the installment of a special workstation of adaptive technology for the blind and visually impaired users to be applied at the Library.

Contact persons:

Mrs. Popi Sourmaidou, Project co-ordinator
Mrs. Despina Karachlani, Project co-ordinator
Ermou 18A, Off. No 207
546 24 Thessaloniki, GREECE
tel/fax: +30-31 222256
email: pplano@spark.net.gr

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University of Graz/ Library, Austria (Graz)

The Library University of Graz will
  • participate at the project International Steering Committee,
  • participate at all the partners' meetings,
  • be responsible to carry out the Action 3: train the trainers package,
  • organize the 2nd partners' meeting to be held in Graz,
  • assist at the organizing of the third partner's meeting to be held in Linz

Contact person:

Mr. Bruno Sperl, Librarian
Hauptbibliothek
Universitaetsplatz 3
A-8010 Graz, AUSTRIA
tel/fax: +43-316 3801415
email: Bruno.Sperl@kfunigraz.ac.at

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University of Linz/ Institute of Computer Science, Austria (Linz)

The University of Linz will
  • participate at the International Steering Committee,
  • participate at all the partners' meetings,
  • be responsible to carry out the Action 4: train the users package,
  • organize the 3rd partners' meeting to be held in Linz,
  • participate as trainers at a seminar to be held in Thessaloniki for the blind students.

Contact person:

Mr. Mario Batusic, Educational Endeavor for the blind Students
Altenbergerstrasse 69
A-4040 Linz, AUSTRIA
tel: +43-732 24689232
fax: +43-732 24689322
email: mb@aib.uni-linz.ac.at

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University of Cyprus

The University of Cyprus will
  • participate at the International Steering Committee,
  • conduct a Preliminary Study for the installment of a special workstation of adaptive technology for the blind and visually impaired users to be applied at the Library of the University of Cyprus,
  • install a special workstation for the use of blind students
  • participate in the meetings and the training courses to be held in the project

Contact person:

Mr. Filippos Tsimpoglou, Library Director
75 Kallipoleos, P.O. Box 20537
CY-1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS
tel: +35-72 893030
+35-72 892047
fax: +35-72 750508
email: ftsimp@ucy.ac.cy

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Cyprus Library

The Cyprus Library will
  • follow the project by participating in a number of meetings and/or seminars to be held during the project
  • will cooperate with the University of Cyprus in the organizing of the Dissemination Seminar and Conference to be held in Cyprus

Contact person:

Mr. Antonis Maratheftis, Director
Eleftherias Square
CY-1011 Nicosia, CYPRUS
tel: +35-72 303180
fax: +35-72 304532
email: antonism@ucy.ac.cy

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The Dutch Federation of Libraries for the Blind (former Centre for Spoken Literature, CGL), Netherlands

The Dutch Federation of Libraries for the Blind (former Centre for Spoken Literature) will
  • participate in the International Steering Committee,
  • will participate in all meetings to be held during the project,
  • will be responsible to carry out the Action 5: Evaluation and Measurements,
  • will construct a number of questionnaires for evaluation of the project
  • measure the experiences and attitudes of the users during the project
Contact person:

Mr. Maarten Verboom, Vice Director
Postbus 24
NL 5360 AA GRAVE, THE NETHERLANDS
tel: +31-48 648648
email: mverboom@fnbb.nl

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Panhellenic Association of Blind of Central Macedonia, Greece

The Panhellenic Association of Blind of Central Macedonia will
  • assist in the dissemination and the evaluation of the project activities,
  • participate at the seminars
  • cooperate with the responsible partners at the production of the training material

Contact persons:

Mrs. Ioanna Zacharou, General Secretary
Mr. Grigoris Argiropoulos, Organising Secretary
Agias Theodoras 3
546 23 Thessaloniki, GREECE
tel: +30-31 261640
fax: +30-31 250677

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Union of Blind (ENOSI) of Northern Greece «Luis Braille», Greece

The Union of the Blind of Northern Greece will
  • assist in the dissemination and the evaluation of the project activities,
  • participate at the seminars
  • cooperate with the responsible partners at the production of the training material

Contact person:

Mr. Bambis Tokatlides, Teacher at the Special School for the blind
tel: +30-31 828655

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Voluntary Work of Thessaloniki, Greece

The Voluntary Work of Thessaloniki will
  • assist the project in the field of sensibilisation and acquaintance of the library staff in dealing with visually handicapped users,
  • cooperate at the production of the training material for the training of the librarians and the users
  • cooperate at the dissemination of the project

Contact person:

Mr. Panayiotis Makris, Animator
Marathonos 11
561 21 Ampelokipi, Thessaloniki, GREECE
tel: +30-31 726085
fax: +30-31 735533

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