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Events 2000 in Iberoamerica
Organized by the Northern Portugal Institute for Employment and the Santiago de Compostela University, the 2nd International Meeting for Skills for Employment will take place on October 12-14, 2000 at Porto, Portugal. Official languages will be Portuguese, Spanish and Galician.
The main topic will be "Approaches to Learning Proficiency through Skills."
Sessions topics:
* Training: Building up
Personal and Professional Skills for Employment
* Counseling and Skills
Training.
* Initial Professional Qualifications
in Youth: Strategic Priorities.
* Adults with Low Scholastic
Qualifications: Answers?
* The Role of Businesses
in Professional Training: Upward Mobility and Skills Training.
* Identifying and Recognition
of Skills in Promoting Learning Throughout Life.
* Skills in Europe.
For more information:
Secretaría Científica:
Instituto de Empleo y formación
Profesional
Rua Ezequiel Campos, 488
4149-00 PORTO - Porto -
Portugal
Phone: +351-22-6159200
Fax: +351-22-6171513
Contacts:
Domingos Fernandes (dfernand@mail.iefp.pt)
Antonio Rial (iceflore@usc.es)
Secretaría Técnica:
Instituto de Emprego e Formação
Profissional
Rua Ezequiel Campos, 488
Porto - Portugal
Phone: +351-22-6159200
Fax: +351-22-6171513
Contact:
Domingos Fernandes (dfernand@mail.iefp.pt)
First
AHCIET Telecommunications and Society Week, Cuba
Date: October 16-21, 2000
Place: Havana, Cuba
The First AHCIET Telecommunications and Society Week will take place in Havana, Cuba, from October 12-21, 2000. The organizers requested its content be organized in six broad areas:
. Area I TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND MEDICINE
. Area II TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND DISABILITIES
. Area III TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND EDUCATION
. Area IV TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND CITIES
. Area V TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND EMPLOYMENT
. Area VI TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AND ENVIRONMENT
General information on the
Congress can be found at AHCIET's web page: http://www.ahciet.es.
Iberdiscap2000,
Spain
Date: October 18-20, 2000
Place: Madrid
The Iberoamerican Program for Science and Technology for Development (CYTED); the Industrial Autonomy Institute (Instituto de Automática Industrial - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas); and the Labour and Social Matters Department (Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales - IMSERSO - CEAPAT), Spain, are organizing the Iberdiscap 2000 Iberoamerican Congress on October 12-21, 2000 in Madrid, Spain. The Congress will be held at the Science Research Superior Council's headquarters and the official languages will be Portuguese and Spanish.
Taking place in the event
are the 3º Congress on Alternative and Augmentative Communication
and the 1º Congress on Support Technologies for Disabilities. Organizers
of the event are the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative
Communication (ISAAC) and the Association for the Advancement of Assistive
Technology in Europe (AAATE).
Goals
On the one hand, the purpose of both congresses to take place jointly is to establish a continuity with previous events on alternative and augmentative communication (1º congress took place in Portugal in 1993, and the second one in Chile in 1996), and on the other, the need to establish a broad forum for Latin American professionals working in research and development, rehabilitation and special education that work in the scientific innovations field of assistive technologies for the elderly and people with disabilities.
This community's geographic expanse and the multidisciplinary character of this growing field demand joint and coordinated planning that allows for the designing and comparing of solutions based on and adapted to the Latin American socio-cultural realities. The goal is to increase the knowledge among the groups that participate in these areas so they collaborate with each other by using existing means -as CYTED- within the international community.
One of the objectives of this Congress is the creation of projects and networks within said program in order to integrate a good number of groups that work in the same field. It will also study the ways in which to build links between Latin America and the European Union.
Iberdiscap2000 will study innovative aspects related to the following areas:
* Communication
* Interfaces and information
access
* Manipulation
* Orientation.
* Mobility and transportation.
* Adapting architecture
and workspace.
* Horizontal Aspects: Training,
education, market and, policies.
For more information, contact:
Secretaría del Congreso
IBERDISCAP2000
J.L. Pons/ A.R. Jiménez
Instituto de Automática
Industrial. CSIC
Ctra Campo Real, Km. 0.2.
La Poveda
28500 Arganda del Rey (Madrid)
España
Tel. 34 91 871 19 00
Fax. 34 91 871 70 50
Email: arjimenez@iai.csic.es
http://www.iai.csic.es/iberdiscap
Free registration. Organizer:
Red de Integración Especial - RedEspecial.
Tentative Agenda (Does not
exclude any subject):
- Network Links
- Access to the Net
- New Editing ways and their
Future. Digital Books, Virtual Libraries
- Education and Globalization.
Academic and Informal Education. Long Distance Education.
- The Elderly
- Disabilities and computers
- Ongoing Projects. New
Proposals
- New Discoveries in Medicine.
Person and Science
- Improvements in Legislation
- Technological Advances
Registration to Congress
as participant: Until October 31, 2000
Papers accepted until: September
15, 2000
Congress dates: November
1-30, exclusively by E-mail.
Notice:
Information on this Congress
will be available will be available at the Red de Integración Especial
- Red Especial site:
http://www.redespecialWEB.org
It will also be printed
in the list and in its bi-weekly newsletter.
Notices are also available
in the Congreso RedEspecial's List, which will only carry news about the
Congress.
To subscribe: Send a blank
to message
Act. Graciela J. Caplan
http://www.intercol.org.ar/redespecial/
gcaplan@INAME.COM
A.P.E.B.I. - Asociación
para Espina Bífida e Hidrocefalia (Spina Bifida and hydrocephalus
Association) is organizing the Fifth National Olympics, Second International
Olympics for children and Youth on Wheelchairs, November 5-12, 2000 in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Those participating in this event will be children
and youth between 6 and 21 years old whose pathologies only affect the
motor skills (no severe limits to upper body). Participants must use wheelchairs
to play the sports and must not have mental disabilities. The official
sports are: Swimming, Athletics, Ping-pong, and Basketball on wheelchairs.
There will also be Demonstration Sports like Tennis, and Fencing; Special
Sports like Hand Soccer and Rugby, Softball, Handball, Volleyball and Bochas
(similar to bowling) and other forms of recreation.
For more information, contact:Asociación
para Espina Bífida e Hidrocefalia
Adolfo Alsina 2714, 7º
piso, Dto 15,
(1090) Capital Federal,
Argentina
Phone/fax: (54)-11-4482-2282
/ Phone: 4957-4014
Technical Information: Phone/fax:
(54)-11-4788-4890 / 4729-3629 / 4793-4909
e-mail: apebi2000@uole.com
; karlita@sinectis.com.ar
http://www.apebi.org.ar
Fourth
SIDAR Meetings, Spain
The Fourth SIDAR Meetings
will take place during the Fall Semester at Complutense University in Madrid,
Spain.
Dates: November6, 7 and
8, 2000
Place: Madrid
The Seminar on Initiatives on Disabilities and Accessibility at Red SIDAR from the Real Patronato de Prevención y de Atención a Personas con Minusvalía (Royal Trust for Prevention and Care to People with Disabilities) goals are to promote and stimulate a greater and correct treatment of disabilities and a design that allows access to browse the Internet (conscience raising actions); to facilitate knowledge and experiences exchange among associations and people interested in the presence and access to the Net by people with disabilities Information actions); offer technical assistance to facilitate the integration; to establish and maintain research, information and documents related to the presence of disabilities and the access to the Internet (research actions).
The Conference is a meeting opportunity for professionals, institutions and associations related to disabilities, and to businesses that offer accessibility services through the Internet to make the Websites contents available to all public. The Conference will deal with the hottest topics in engines, surfing, design and content.
For more information, contact: http://sidar.org
Conference:
XVth Seminar on Disability and Social Communication, Spain
Date: November 6 - 8, 2000
Place: Madrid
The XVth edition of the Iberoamerican Seminar on Disability and Social Communication, organised by Spanish Royal Board for Prevention and Care of Disabled Persons has as a main purpose to help the media in offering a comprehensive and precise image both of disabilities and the persons related with them.
For more information: www.rppapm.es
The International Congress on Cerebral Palsy will take place November 6-10, 200 at the Camino Real Inter Continental Hotel in San Salvador, El Salvador.
The Congress is organized by the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO), Don Bosco University (UDB), El Salvador University (UES), Centro de Parálisis Cerebral (Cerebral Palsy Center) at the Instituto Salvadoreño de Rehabilitación de Inválidos (Salvadoran Institute for Disabilities Rehabilitation -ISRI), German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Asociación de Terapia Ocupacional (Association for Labor Therapy), El Salvador, and by Hogar de Parálisis Cerebral Callejas Montalvo (Callejas Montalvo Home for Cerebral Palsy). It is designed for the participation of orthopedic surgeons, physiotherapists, prosthesis technicians, occupational therapists psychologists, students and all those interested.
For more information, contact: www.ortotec.com, or e-mail: isrigtz@es.com.sv
International
Congress for People with Hearing Disabilities
Date: November 28-December
1, 2000
Place: Havana, Cuba
The International Congress on Care for the Deaf will take place from November 20 to December 1, 2000 at the Cojimar Conventions Center in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban National Association of Deaf People, the Enrique José Varona Teacher's University, the Latin American Reference Center for Special Education and CELAE, has organized the event.
Two well-defined approaches exist for the caring of deaf people around the world: the Medical Perspective and the Socio-cultural Perspective. Therefore, the Congress goals are to provide an open forum so that the two perspectives are explained through research, papers, and experiences, to find a setting for dialogue and collaboration so that this Congress benefits the worldwide hearing impaired community, and to urge it to participate to it's most potentials among the hearing.
The topics include research and papers on the treatment of hearing impairness, reproductive and sexual health, teaching and psychological experiences, teaching methods and curriculum development, training and teaching of interpreters and the role of sign language in the communication processes with the hearing impaired, and the development of technical and technological aids.
Summaries must be sent to the Organizing Committee before October 30, 2000.
For more information, contact:
comahue@dominio1-net.com.ar
(Ricardo Koon)
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