1) The ISOLearn project aims to improve accessibility and social learning for hearing and visually impaired students in higher education institutions across Europe. 2) It provides practical guidelines and quality indicators in a handbook to help higher education institutions design accessible learning methods and tools for impaired students. 3) The handbook and quality label will help universities develop more accessible courses and programs to improve the enrollment rate of impaired students and their employment opportunities.

1. Project Title: ISOLEARN –Innovation and social learning in Higher Education Institutions
Project number: 2014-1-PT01-KA203-001087
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PRESS RELEASE
ISOLEARN – Innovation and SOcial LEARNing in Higher Education Institutions
Partnership: Aberta Universidade (PT), ACAPO Association (PT), APS Association (PT), Calouste
Gulbenkian (PT), EFFEBI Association (IT), Folkuniversitetet (SE), University of Ljubljana (SI),
Uninettuno University (IT).
Guidelines and Quality Indicators for enhancing accessibility in HEIs
The ISOLearn Handbook, available for consultation on the Project website - www.isolearn.net,
describes practical guidelines for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on how to design and
deliver appropriate ICT-based didactic methods and learning tools in order to support the
accessibility of visual and hearing impaired students.
The Handbook contains also the Quality Label, a Checklist with Quality Indicators to assess the
accessibility of the academic programmes and services provided by the HEIs.
Promoted by the Aberta Universidade (Lisbon, Portugal), and supported by 4 European
countries (Portugal, Italy, Slovenia and Sweden), the Project brings together Higher Education
Institutions, Associations of Blind and Deaf people, VET Providers and a Foundation of Public
Utility. ISOLEARN aims to improve the quality of higher educational offer addressed to
hearing/visual-impaired students in order to enhance their accessibility to HEIs.
The Handbook and Quality Label will foster the development of more adequate HE courses,
the improvement of the accessibility rate of hearing / visually impaired students to University,
and thus, their employability opportunities.
The Project final results will be presented during the relevant European Conference, that will
be held on September 22nd 2016, in Lisbon (Portugal).