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Transnational Meeting in Cagliari, Sardinia, 26th & 27th July 1999

Table of Contents

1. Present
2. National Project Updates
   1. Cepadite (Spanish National Project)
   2. Contatto (Italian National Project)
   3. On-line (UK National Project)
   4. Tecformin (Gran Canaria National Project)
3. TAD Web Site
4. Guide of Good Practice
5. Evaluation
6. Future Meetings
7. Future Projects
8. Close of Meeting

1. Present:

• TOUCAN, Manchester (Alex McDonald and Tom Knox)
• CEPES, Madrid (Carmen Viorreta and Joaquim Bonaventura, disabled assistance manager)
• FUNDESCAN, Canary Islands (Isabel Leiva Perez, Jorge P. Artiles)
• ITC-ILO (Claudio Sicolo);
• R. P. SARDEGNA (Alfio Desogus and Lucia Cantone, Contact Project course participant)

2. National Project Updates

(...can be found on the Update July 99 page)

3. Transnational & Disabilities Web Site (TAD)

The site has been re-designed and a simplified navigation has been introduced.

The site now contains the sections on:

• Project activities & proceedings
• Social Enterprises
• Telematics & Disabilities

The latter two sections contain reports on related areas from the transnational partnership, and links organised by country.

There have been some technical difficulties in setting up a password-protected area for the site for the partners to present draft papers, management etc. Toucan will continue to look at this aspect with our Internet Service Provider in the UK.

An 'off-line' version was available for the partners to view during the meeting and discussions on the web site and sections. Ms. Lucia Cantone checked the site with a PC and judged it positively. Information on co-operatives should be added to the site. Following this opportunity the changes to the site were agreed by the transnational partnership.

The site is not 'fixed' and comments and suggestions etc., are welcome especially from beneficiaries within the respective national projects.

After lunch, Ms. Cantone described the Contact Project's accessibility experiment and presented one of the students' products (Web site of the cooperative).

4. Guide to Good Practice

The original framework doucement on which the case studies were to be based was thought to be to confusing and restrictive.

After discussions on the process of compiling the document and the 'sections' that would be included within the case studies the following generic areas would be addressed:

• Training & Disability - issues and experiences etc.
• Technology - users requirements and availability etc.
• Access/Integration to work - positive practices, availability, access etc.

In order to ensure all partners can read and access each case studies the working format of the documents would be Word, font - Times Roman 12pt, with a maximum of 20 pages.

Draft documents to be circulated to each partner, and if possible that conclusions should be within the case studies so that common themes can be drawn out for the final recommendations within the Good Practice Document.

The respective case studies to be circulated to each partner by the 15th September'99.

The aim is for the draft document to be discussed at the next TAD meetings in Gran Canaria at which we should be able to draw out the main recommendations within the overall Good Practice Guide.

5. Evaluation

The external evaluator, John Clark, requested further feedback from the partners on the questions raised in the Interim Evaluation Report, he was concerned about the slippage on some of the deadlines for information which could cause a delayu in the preparation of the final evaluation report.

Also if there are other points or issues that the partners wish to raise then please pass them on to John.

A date of the 15th September was set for responses but obviously earlier responses would be preferred.

6. Future Meetings

a. Monday & Tuesday 25th & 26th October '99 Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

Provisional programme:

• Guide to Good Practice
• Web Site & future development/exit strategy
• Evaluation
• New funding opportunities

During the transnational visit a workshop around awareness, enterprises and Unions.

b. Wednesday - Saturday 16th - 18th December 1999 Madrid, Spain

Including the Madrid conference on Telematics & Disabilities.

If the partners had ideas about possible suitable speakers for the above conference please pass on details to Carmen Viorreta.

c. Wednesday - Friday 3rd - 5th November 1999 Employment Week, Brussels

Toucan will be exhibiting at the above conference included within the exhibit will be the 'On-Line' project.

Partners are invited to share the exhibition space for their respective national projects. The conference is one of the major 'showcase' events for the Commission and an opportunity to disseminate project activities as well as contact potential future partners.

Further details about the conference are available through the web site: http://www.employmentweek.com/

For details on the cost and exhibition space size contact Tom Knox at Toucan:
tom@toucan-europe.co.uk

7. Future Projects

Claudio Sicolo outlined the latest call for projects from DG V under two headings:

• Action for Social Exclusion
• Civil Dialogue between NGOs

Work under the TAD partnership could be developed under the 'Civil Dialogue' strand using the TAD web site as a base. This site could be expanded to allow a wider network of organisations to interact around various issues.

The deadline for submission is the 27th August 1999.

8. Close of Meeting

In conclusion, Mr. Desogus summarised the deadlines and the commitments undertaken, and thanked the participants, including the ILO official Robin Poppe, who had been present during the final stages of the meeting.

National Project Updates July 1999
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