It’s a wrap on the VOLT project!

It’s a wrap on the VOLT project!

On 6 February, the Video Online Learning and Training (VOLT) project partners and other stakeholders gathered in Brussels, Belgium to celebrate the project’s successful completion and produced outcomes. During the final conference, titled “Co-Creating Inclusive Education: Empowering VET Staff and Learners Through Video”, project partners from Greece, Spain, Germany and Ireland showcased the fully accessible VOLT Platform hosting videos produced by service users and supported by their trainers; the Staff Guide for Vocational Education and Training personnel, and the Toolkit for Learners.  Participants also heard a talk on the European Disability Forum’s research supported by Google.org on Digital Skills, Accommodation and Technological Assistance for Employment (DATA) and the IFM-SEI ( International Falcon Movement · Socialist Education International) E-MPACT, Youth for Inclusive E-Education Project.

The project partnership consisted of five organisations: Theotokos Foundation (Greece, leader), the European Platform for Rehabilitation (EPR) (Belgium), Fundación INTRAS (Spain), Mariaberg e.V. (Germany), and The Rehab Group (Ireland).

The VOLT project (Video Online Learning and Training) was initiated in response to an ongoing need for inclusive and accessible digital learning opportunities; a need that became all the more apparent during the COVID-19 lockdown. The project aims at creating training resources for staff and learners in VET services for people with disabilities. By equipping staff with the knowledge and digital skills needed to quickly adapt to online training and learning environments, VET services can continue providing inclusive programs to people with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities without excluding them from the plethora of online tools that usually require an adequate level of digital and literacy skills. The familiar but powerful learning medium of videos have been utilised to create a learning platform easily accessible by all. The innovation of this project is harnessing the simplicity of video learning and implementing this familiar and motivating teaching tool in a digital environment in distance learning.