ICT for AccessAbility

Youth Mapper Offenbach is a coordinator organization and cooperates with partners that are actively involved in planning and development and planning with Youthfully Yours Gr (Greece), BEYOGLU ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU, Poraka Negotino, Associazione Inner Voice, "EQuality" Community Development Association has implemented the activities for this youth exchange.

The project "ICT for AccessAbility" starts on 01.08.2018 and ends on 31.05.2019. The duration of the youth exchange is 8 days plus 1 day for the trip (October 4 - 11, 2018). The venue of youth exchange was in Offenbach, Germany. There will be 33 participants from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Germany, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. One of the participants had special needs and his companions will be in Offenbach during the project activities. Our Macedonian partner ensures that participants with special needs are available. Fifteen of the participants are selected to have fewer opportunities to travel, as well as cultural differences, educational difficulties, geographical barriers and social barriers. Partner organizations are responsible for the selection of participants. The overarching objective of the project is to promote accessibility to the social inclusion of people with disabilities and to improve the awareness of accessibility of public facilities for persons with disabilities at national and international level. Among the specific non-formal educational goals of this youth exchange is the creation of an accessible Offenbach map, which displays accessible places such as hospitals, schools, public transport, sports centers and restaurants with open-source software to increase the social accessibility and mobility of citizens with disabilities and to encourage young people to engage with people with disabilities and raise awareness of the rights of people with disabilities between young people and local communities. During the project, participants will hold a workshop on non-formal education methods on the accessibility of people with disabilities.

The methods will be teambuilding, group dynamics, debates, outdoor activities, facility visits, role-playing games, challenges and NGO fair etc. The main activities are the creation of a barrier-free map, empathy with people with disabilities: "All of us are disabled", visit "Disability assistance in city and district Offenbach e. V. ", Coffee Talks" Disabled Role Model, Ramp Workshop and Ideation Crowd Funding Event to Create Accessibility Awareness Raising the Created Accessible Map on the Internet with Users The report is being sent to related areas of government and communities released. The project aims to raise participants' awareness of disability rights, understanding of volunteering, information about software technologies and ICT, as well as basic information on mapping and understanding mapping as a solution tool for socially responsible projects. "ICT for AccessAbility" is to contribute to the local community in Offenbach by promoting the map available in Offenbach throughout the state. Once the participants have completed the youth exchange and return to their local communities, they will likely sponsor this volunteer project to create a barrier-free map of specific areas in their home country. This card can help increase the inclusion and employability of people with disabilities. As youth exchanges can provide participants with practical tools and these maps can be created in their communities, they will be able to disseminate the desired impact of the project in their local communities.