About the project
A two-year cooperation partnership designing the next generation of tactile teaching aids for blind and visually impaired students — and putting them in the hands of teachers across Europe, for free.
Most blind and visually impaired children in our partner countries attend mainstream schools. Their classmates learn from textbooks, diagrams and slides that are increasingly visual. The adapted materials that exist today are mostly two-dimensional tactile pictures — useful, but limited. They cannot convey volume, depth, the relationship between parts of an object, or how a system works in space.
Teachers in inclusive classrooms know the gap. They improvise, adapt, and often go without. Specialised schools have the pedagogical knowledge to do better, but lack the digital fabrication skills to design and produce three-dimensional aids at scale.
I can touch it connects those two worlds.
Five organisations, four countries, one pipeline:
I can touch it is a KA220-SCH Cooperation Partnership in School Education funded by Erasmus+. It addresses two programme priorities:
The project also contributes to the digital transformation of education and to the inclusion of learners with special educational needs in mainstream schools.