Description du projet
Renforcer la participation sociétale des personnes malvoyantes
Au moins 2,2 milliards de personnes dans le monde sont atteintes d’une déficience visuelle ou de cécité, dont au moins un milliard souffrent d’une maladie qui aurait pu être évitée ou qui n’a pas encore été prise en charge. Le projet OptiVisT, financé par l’UE, développera les outils et apportera la formation nécessaires pour garantir que les personnes atteintes de déficience visuelle puissent participer à la vie de la société et développer leur plein potentiel. Quinze chercheurs en début de carrière seront formés en vue de devenir la prochaine génération de spécialistes dans le domaine des sciences translationnelles de la vision. Ils apprendront à quantifier les demandes visuelles des activités quotidiennes et utiliseront ces nouvelles informations pour concevoir des outils et des tests objectifs, efficaces et faciles à utiliser pour évaluer la vision fonctionnelle.
Objectif
OptiVisT’s key mission is to enhance the societal participation of individuals with vision impairment through innovative and inclusive care. To achieve this, we need new knowledge as well as new, innovative tests to assess functional visual abilities, and develop tools to train and augment them. We thus need Translational Vision Scientists, with expertise in vision science, technology and healthcare. Such scientists are in great demand, but scarce, because there is as yet no specialist training program.
OptiVisT arose from the realization that we can only meet this need by joining forces across Europe and integrating our pioneering efforts. We will train 15 early stage researchers (ESRs) to become the pivotal next generation of specialists in Translational Vision Science, ready to take on leading positions to the benefit of healthcare, industry and science. Our consortium offers all the essential components to nurture this new generation of cutting-edge scientists: they will learn how to quantify the visual demands of activities of daily living and to use their new insights to design objective, effective and easy-to-use tests and tools of functional vision. These must also be of an inclusive nature so that also vulnerable people with vision impairment can use them. Experts in the application, evaluation and valorization of solutions will ensure that our ESRs also know how to make their new tests and tools succeed in the real world. Thus, we will equip the ESRs with a unique portfolio of skills and competences, well-balanced for both academic and non-academic careers. Their skills are urgently needed to remove the roadblocks that presently limit progress in the translational vision field. Our innovative research program will guarantee that ESRs can make a real difference to the lives of the millions of people with vision impairment in Europe, by improving their opportunities to work, play sports, and participate in wider society, to their fullest potential.
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Appel à propositions
(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinateur
9713 GZ Groningen
Pays-Bas