Aldia Project

According to the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 disabled people are much less likely to participate in post-school education and to obtain employment than non-disabled people. Removing barriers and improving outcomes for this group is critical to the overall economic and social objectives of the EU, as expressed in the Europe 2020 strategy.

The main objective of the ALdia project is to reduce disparities in learning outcomes affecting learners from disadvantaged backgrounds.

In order to achieve this objective the ALdia project will:
a) define disabled student needs in both higher education and VET sectors,
b) develop and field-test an innovative, flexible, Massive Open Online Course for higher education lecturers and VET trainers, and
c) validate the acquired expertise through certification that will be based on the ECVET principles, thus facilitating its use across Europe…

ALdia design meetings will be held in each of the consortium countries, where the end-users (HE and VET educators) and disabled students will be asked to participate and through this, define the training needs from their perspective. These needs will be evaluated and categorised, in order to be used for the training programmes and platform specifications.