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Education
Experts discuss how we can make universities more inclusive in an AccessibleEU webinar
Education is an important domain where we’re supposed to be taught the essential skills that we will use in later stages in life. Although advances in accessibility legislation have taken place in Europe during the last decades, educational systems still have room for improvement when it comes to being fully accessible. That was the main message of the AccessibleEU Consortium’s hybrid event hosted in collaboration with the University of Porto on October 30th.
EBU activities
Panhellenic Association of the Blind (PAB): A Commitment to Empowering the Visually Impaired
On 7 and 8 November 2024, a small delegation from the EBU Office (Lars BOSSELLMANN, Director and Valérie BERTRAND-VIVANCOS, Membership Officer) paid a very interesting visit to EBU Greek Member, the Panhellenic Association of the Blind (PAB) in its headquarters in central Athens. Through our discussions with Board members and Employees, we learnt about its history, challenges and achievements.
News from EBU members
Multidisciplinary services as a key for change: the Croatian Blind Union presents its organisation and actions
In spite of advances in legislation in Europe, persons with visual impairment still face different obstacles in several domains in life. Enabling them requires of engaged third-sector stakeholders with strong commitments in different areas. Our friends from the Croatian Blind Union (CBU) conveyed this message while presenting their association and its activities in a webinar hosted by EBU on 29th October.
OVN, our Dutch member, presents their own position on Shared Spaces in the Netherlands
Shared Space is a relatively new way of approaching the design of public outdoor spaces, where the strict separation of traffic flows is abandoned. Busy areas with many external visitors, such as regional shopping areas, major public transport hubs, or main traffic routes, are not suitable for Shared Space. OVN share their position on the subject.
Vision Ireland Acknowledges Charles Bonnet Syndrome Awareness Day 2025
Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) Awareness Day took place on Saturday 16th November. To extensively raise awareness of the condition, Vision Ireland facilitated an online viewing of Aspectum on Wed 13th November.
Culture
The first castanets score transcribed into braille: one more step towards inclusion and cultural dissemination
Teresa Laiz, a Spanish castanets soloist, tells us the story of how Bárbara Martín, EBU's 1st Vice-President, proposed to her the idea of giving a score composed by her to ONCE so that its Bibliographic Service could transcribe it into braille.
Coming events
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