This year, the theme is 3D and the dates are October 24 to 27 (including travel).

The 3D printing technology is regularly covered in the media. The possible applications of this technology seem limitless and are increasingly finding their way into the private sphere, e.g. for upcycling of everyday objects or the production of spare parts that are no longer available. 3D printers are becoming more and more powerful and user-friendly and are now affordable for everyone. In fact, 3D printing offers many advantages for many creative home- and model makers. In the field of education for people with visual impairments, tactile teaching materials can be produced easily and affordably.

However, there is still a prevailing opinion that 3D printing can only be done by IT specialists and technicians.

The introductory course aims to provide answers to these very questions. Contents of the course are:

• • Private application areas of 3D printing
  • Different 3D printing processes and materials
  • Costs and effort
  • Advantages of 3D printing compared to conventional manufacturing methods
  • Obtaining parts from databases, 3D scanning and design
  • Demonstration of various printing processes
  • Practical operation of a 3D printer
  • Basic construction with Autodesk Fusion360

This trainng event will be held by our member BFW Düren (Germany) with the support of ENVITER. to have a 360° view on the training area, where the course will take place: Klick here

Once a year, we wish our member’s professionals to meet so they can have a training experience usually focusing on content about new and innovative methodologies, practices and tools that often resulte from our projects. It is a perfect time to exchange ideas, train our professionals, create some links between them and develop smaller internal networks of specific professionals working in the same areas.

This year, the subjetc will be 3D!

Contact us if you wish to enrol you or someone from your organization, having in mind that the deadline for this is October 3th.

Pleased to announce our 2022 annual Conference, hosted by vyv3 in Angers, France, on Wednesday 13th April 2022.

The purpose of our Annual Conference is to create an opportunity for professionals to share their theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of vision impairment, focusing especially on innovative methodologies, practices and tools.

We are inviting proposals for paper presentations in the following thematic area:

“Positive side effects of COVID on inclusion of VI people: good practices, opportunities, future plans, takeaways”

Proposal ideas that extend beyond these thematic area will be considered by the Board.

Abstracts:

• Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 10th March 2022
• Full papers must be presented in English.
• These papers will be considered for publication on our website.
• The presentation of the papers should be 20-30 minutes (including questions)

We also offer the opportunity for participation to people as presenters, speakers or as members of the audience who are not from ENVITER member organisations, so please inform your colleagues from the VI field about our conference.

We hope you will be able to join us.

For more information, please contact us.

Photo by Pete Linforth from Pixabay.

On the 29th of April 2021, Markus Raffer, founder and CEO of Tec-Innovation, with the cooperation of Klaus Höckner from the our member Hilfsgemeinschaft, Austria, presented to our members the InnoMake, a warning system built into shoes, developed to make everyday life safer for visually impaired and blind people through intelligent obstacle detection.

This year, on March 16th, our General Meeting was again done online.

Focusing on the usual subjects like the financial report of our Association and runing projects, we also had the announcement of our next board election, to be elected in October this year.

Hopefully, we started to prepare our next physical meeting: our General Meeting in Angers 2022, for the celebration of ENVITER‘s 20^th Anniversary.

Photo by Pete Linforth from Pixabay.