LEONARDO DA VINCI
Education and Culture

D1. Research of Field for the Needs of Distance-Linguistic training of the English language for the Hard of Hearing Individuals-Defining the specifications of the subsystems
TOTAL DURATION	1ο – 3ο quarter
AIMS	A research will be realised for the Needs of Distant-Linguistic training of the English language, internationally and more specifically in the countries that will participate in the proposed project. The present project of work consists of the following sections: a. Materialising a Research Field b. Reaching conclusions with respect to the user’s requirements  c. Determining the subsystems specifications ΰ Specifications of telecommunication services with respect to persons with hearing problems ΰ Specifications of the networking information (portal) and of humannetwork ΰ Specifications of Network Virtual Classroom Specifications of Educational Material in the Sign Language Specifications of Self-assessment
EXPECTED RESULTS	In the present part of work we will complete the specifications and present the current situation in the relevant scientific grounds.
PRODUCTS	P1.1: Report on the international experience and bibliography. P1.2 Report on the specifications of the Educational Material. P1. 3 Report on the specifications of self-assessment.
ACTIVITIES/ WORKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES	INVOLVED PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES
		GREECE	UNITED KINGDOM	SWEDEN	HOLLAND
	Supervisor in carrying out all the works of the present part of the project.	NCSR “D”
	Study of bibliography	LAB.E.SPEC.C..	RNID
	Questionnaires	K.E.E.S.E PEK NCSR “D”	Remark! RNID	S.L.F.C.	Hogeschool
	- Setting up the questionnaires - Specifying of subsystems	NCSR “D”	C.T.A.D.
	Defining the specifications of the self-assesment subsystem of distance learning with respect to the user’s needs.	ICCS – NTUA
	Analytical presentation of the national reality.	PEK	RNID	S.L.F.C.	Hogeschool
QUALITY MANAGEMEN T PLAN	By the end of each step the project aims to produce materials and documents which will be fundamental for the activation of the following phase; the intermediate results of the actions are thus continuously monitored and evaluated on the basis of their operating functionality  for the starting of the next activity. Monitoring will be carried out by means of a functional control on the advancement state of the project. It will assess the efficiency,  the pertinence of the developed activities with regard to the project objectives, deadlines and adequateness of the used methods.

D2. Planning-Production of Educational Material on the Needs of distance-linguistic training of individuals with Hearing problems into the English language. Adaptation of the Educational Material according to the requirements of distance and On-line training
TOTAL DURATION	4ο – 9ο quarter
AIMS	Based on the field research on the needs of the distance-linguistic training into the English Language from D1, and based also on the predefined specifications and technical knowledge we aim to draw out of the work D.E.L.F.E., the analytical presentation of the ‘specific’ educational material will take place, which will be used for the pilot application of the distance-linguistic training into the English language. The educational material is going to include texts, pictures and video with a full interpretation in the Sign Language of each country. From an educational point of view the overall didactic material will be adapted to suit the needs and particularities of the sensitive target group (Individuals hard of hearing). That is why the planning and production of the educational material will be carried out with the collaboration of the specific Deaf and teachers able to hear, who work in the research and training-centres that participate in the work and have a long time experience in the teaching of information technology to the Deaf / Hard of hearing.
EXPECTED RESULTS / PRODUCTS	P2.1: Introduction to e-learning P2.2: Distance-learning training of the English language for the Deaf -Part A P2.3: Distance-learning training of the English language for the Deaf-Part B
ACTIVITIES/ WORKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES	INVOLVED PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES   The educational material will be constituted by the following thematic units:   1. Introduction to Internet services (Internet tools). 2. Teaching the English language to the Deaf beginners using the Sign Language (Part A and B).
		GREECE	UNITED KINGDOM	SWEDEN	HOLLAND
	Supervisor in carrying out all the works of the present part of the project		CTAD
	Authoring the educational material	NCSR “D”	CTAD Remark
	Digitising the material into appropriate distance-learning patterns (Quick Time, Mpeg, Real Player, Video On Demand)	NCSR “D”
	Translation of the educational material from English to Greek and vice versa	LAB.E.SPEC. C.
	Video recording part of the educational material	PEK	CTAD Remark!	S.L.F.C.	Hogeschool
	Adjusting the educational material to suit the educational needs and particularities with respect to hard of hearing individuals	LAB.E.SPEC. C.
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN	By the end of each step the project aims to produce materials and documents which will be fundamental for the activation of the following phase; the intermediate results of the actions are thus continuously monitored  and evaluated on the basis of their operating functionality for the starting of the next activity. Monitoring will be carried out by means of a functional control on the advancement state of the project. It will assess the efficiency,  the pertinence of the developed activities with regard to the project objectives, deadlines and adequateness of the used methods.

D3.Intelligent self-assessment system
TOTAL DURATION	4th – 9th quarter
AIMS	Materialisation of an intelligent self-assessment system of the e-students (Deaf).
EXPECTED RESULTS	System measuring the level of student’s knowledge acquisition and dexterities during the educational process
PRODUCTS	P3.1: Experienced assessment system
ACTIVITIES/ WORKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES	INVOLVED PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES
		GREECE	UNITED KINGDOM	SWEDEN	HOLLAND
	Participating fundamentally and supervising the development of self-assessment subsystem for the e-students	ICCS – NTUA
	Supervisor in carrying out all the works of the present part of the project in coordination with the lab of technical university of Athens (I.C.C.S).	NCSR
	Auxiliairy participation		C.T.A.D
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN	By the end of each step the project aims to produce materials and documents which will be fundamental for the activation of the following phase; the intermediate results of the actions are thus continuously monitored  and evaluated on the basis of their operating functionality for the starting of the next activity. Monitoring will be carried out by means of a functional control on the advancement state of the project. It will assess the efficiency,  the pertinence of the developed activities with regard to the project objectives, deadlines and adequateness of the used methods.

D4. Development of the Telecommunications and Internet Services for the Support of Distance Learning and Diffusion of the Information-Planning and Materialisation of Network Virtual Classroom
TOTAL DURATION	4th – 7th quarters
AIMS	Planning of the telecommunicative subsystem, which will support the application in question and the planning of telecommunicational network. To be defined: Setting the web sites and internet communication services Creating the virtual network classroom
EXPECTED RESULTS	The appropriate educational environment, so that the ‘teacher’ will be able to realise and conduct the lesson through the network and make the best out of the internet educational services for the support of the course. The particularities of the target group will also be taken into consideration as an important parameter
PRODUCTS	P4.1: The main subsystem of the work: Telecommunications Network supporting Teleconference services P4.2: Planning of Network Virtual Classroom with respect to the specific target team P4.3: The main subsystem of the work: Network Virtual Classoroom
ACTIVITIES/ WORKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES	INVOLVED PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES
		GREECE	UNITED KINGDOM	SWEDEN	HOLLAND
	Supervisor in carrying out all the works of the present part of the project	NCSR
	Auxiliairy participation in the present part of the project	ΠΕΚ	C.T.A.D. RNID	S.L.F.C.	Hogeschool
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN	By the end of each step the project aims to produce materials and documents which will be fundamental for the activation of the following phase; the intermediate results of the actions are thus continuously monitored  and evaluated on the basis of their operating functionality for the starting of the next activity. Monitoring will be carried out by means of a functional control on the advancement state of the project. It will assess the efficiency,  the pertinence of the developed activities with regard to the project objectives, deadlines and adequateness of the used methods.

D5. Planning and Development of Internet Informative Actions in the area of Distance-Learning for the Individuals hard of Hearing using the Sign language (Human Network).
TOTAL DURATION	3th – 12th quarters
AIMS	The portal will include the humannetwork (networking forum) in which all entities will be able to take part in: v Exchanging of scientific opinions between the research teams of the entities involved in the project v Communicating and exchanging views among the Deaf partners on educational matters-training of Deaf in new technologies and in the linguistic training of the English language v Writing and Solving possible problems
EXPECTED RESULTS / PRODUCTS	P5.1: The main subsystem of the work, Informational Gate Network (portal) for the distance-linguistic training in the English Language for people Hard of Hearing-DEAF. P5.2: The humannetwork (forum) of scientists from all the entities involved in the project
ACTIVITIES/ WORKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES	INVOLVED PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES
		GREECE	UNITED KINGDOM	SWEDEN	HOLLAND
	Planning, Materialising, Renewing- Maintaining the Portal, Setting up a humannetwork	NCSR
	Participating actively of portal’s informational material. Participating in the humannetwork	NCSR, ICCS – NTUA, LAB.E.SPEC. C.., ΠΕΚ	C.T.A.D., REMARK!, RNID	S.L.F.C.	Hogeschool
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN	By the end of each step the project aims to produce materials and documents which will be fundamental for the activation of the following phase; the intermediate results of the actions are thus continuously monitored  and evaluated on the basis of their operating functionality for the starting of the next activity. Monitoring will be carried out by means of a functional control on the advancement state of the project. It will assess the efficiency,  the pertinence of the developed activities with regard to the project objectives, deadlines and adequateness of the used methods.

D6. Planning-Materialisation of Special Pilot Actions of the Distance Training (e-courses)
TOTAL DURATION	6th – 10th quarters
AIMS	Based on the user’s needs-demands that will arise from the 1st part of the project, virtual lessons will take place in virtual classroom with respect to the three thematic units of the educational material using the teleconference equipment (teleconference rooms, teleconference services) realised in the D4 part of the work.
EXPECTED RESULTS /PRODUCTS	P6: Planning, Materialisation, Assessment of distance learning pilot actions
ACTIVITIES/ WORKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES	INVOLVED PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES
		GREECE	UNITED KINGDOM	SWEDEN	HOLLAND
	Organisation, Materialisation of courses, Assessment of pilot actions	NCSR
	Supplementary participation and evaluation of the subsystem of intelligent self-assessment of e-students	ICCS – NTUA
	Real and distance learning lessons	ΠΕΚ	R.N.I.D.	S.L.F.C	Hogeschool
	Supplementary participation		REMARK!
	Evaluation of pilot actions	LAB.E.SPEC. C.
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN	By the end of each step the project aims to produce materials and documents which will be fundamental for the activation of the following phase; the intermediate results of the actions are thus continuously monitored  and evaluated on the basis of their operating functionality for the starting of the next activity. Monitoring will be carried out by means of a functional control on the advancement state of the project. It will assess the efficiency,  the pertinence of the developed activities with regard to the project objectives, deadlines and adequateness of the used methods.

WP: Management application
TOTAL DURATION	1th – 12th quarter (12)
AIMS	The present parcel of work concerns the management, co-ordination and scientific observation of the Work. Among the activities are included: Central Work management-Coordination-Reports-Work flow Observation -Cash flow observation-               Deliverables Work management on behalf of the various entities Resolution of problems
EXPECTED RESULTS/ PRODUCTS	The suggested methodology contributes to the success of the Project taking into account, in advance, that anyone involved in the Project is perfectly aware of: ◊ the purpose of the work ◊ the required steps for the achievement of goals ◊ the distribution of the various tasks Additionally, it provides several supervising sections on crucial points that guarantee appeal with respect to: ◊ time ◊ cost ◊ functionality ◊ quality  According to the methodology, each work is consider to have:   ◊ a well defined and unique amount of products   ◊ a respective total of activities aiming at the products creation   ◊ appropriate resources for the materialization of the activities   ◊ limited time duration   ◊ organized structure with predefined responsibilities
ACTIVITIES/ WORKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES	INVOLVED PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES The organized structure of methodology consists of:   ◊ a structure of administrative and technical (researching and educative) roles   ◊ description of duties for each role   ◊ defined responsibilities for each role

WP: Diffusion
TOTALDURATION	7th – 12th   QUARTER
PRECONDITIONS	This phase complements and implements the previous phase, a part of which coincides once the companies and training parties are involved.
AIMS	The present part of the project includes the diffusion and transmission of results of the proposed plan between the involved entities through work meetings that will be realized during the plan but also with external entities that will be realized with the production of printed material, creation of Webpage information as well as with training meetings.
EXPECTED RESULTS	Informative and Sensitising Meetings for the plan’s evolution perspectives Production of brochures, webpages (www) with the use of the Internet and educational shows.
PRODUCTS	The productive pilot material will be installed in the Server of EKEFE ‘D’ in Greece in all the languages of the countries which will take part as well as their equivalent Sign languages, that is Greek with the Greek Sign Language, Danish in the Danish Sign Language and French in the French Sign Language. All the interpretations of the Sign Language will be of course under the form of digital video available for each citizen interested for the distance-learning through SL for the electronic trade matters).
ACTIVITIES/ WORKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES	. INVOLVED PARTNERS AND THEIR ROLES
		GREECE	UK	SWEEDEN	HOLLAND
	MEETING,PRESS, PUBLICATIONS	NCSR, ICCS–NTUA
	GIVING OUT OF RESULTS IN THE RESEARCH AREA OF EACH ENTITY.	NCSR, ΠΕΚ	REMARK! RNID	S.L.F.C.	Hogeschool
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN	By the end of each step the project aims to produce materials and documents  which will be fundamental for the activation of the following phase; the intermediate results of the actions are thus continuously monitored and evaluated on the basis of their operating functionality  for the starting of the next activity. Periodic monitoring and assessment activities in itinere ed ex post are carried out by NCSR DEMOKRITOS to PRINCE METHOD procedures, by means of special assessment check lists on behalf of the involved participants (project and companies’ staff). The above activities will deal with the process, supply, methods, instruments, organization, the invested economic resources and professionalism. Monitoring will be carried out by means of control on the advancement of the project. It will assess the efficiency, the pertinence of the developed activities with regard to the project objectives, deadlines and suitability of the methods used.

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