The fondation IJA (Institute for Young Blind People) will be manning the Tactile Books and Flex Picture Ebook stand at the Festival du Livre Jeunesse Occitanie on the weekend of 25-26 January. This festival is a major regional event attended by families. Around thirty authors and illustrators will be there to meet their readers. This […]

Presentation of Flex Picture Ebook resources at 10.30am, during the round table ‘Reading without borders: access to books for all’, with the French Ministry of Culture and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Fondation IJA (Institut des Jeunes Aveugles) is holding an awareness-raising day for its partners – teachers, AESHs and youth workers – who work with pupils in mainstream schools on Thursday 28 November, from 9am to 4.30pm, at the foundation’s head office: 37 rue Monplaisir 31400 Toulouse. Elsa Sublaurier, Foundation librarian, and Nathalie Bédouin, adaptor and […]

Maximilian Punz (JKU Linz University) will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday 16 October 2024 (Hall ‘New Adult’, stand E26) to present the Flex Picture Ebook project to publishers. He will be giving demonstrations of our EPUB3 Flex Picture Ebook development software.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the association Les Doigts Qui Rêvent, Anaïs Brard, Head of Publishing at Les Doigts Qui Rêvent, will be leading a workshop entitled ‘Digital graphics and sound options: when books adapt to children’. Free participation on registration.

For the GPEAA’s 60th Educational days, Les Doigts Qui Rêvent will be in Paris at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, François Mitterrand’s site, on Thursday 10th October. Participation in the ‘culture’ round table: ‘Access to culture for a young visually impaired audience’, presentation of Flex Picture Ebook resources. Les Doigts Qui Rêvent stand on site.

Notre partenaire lituanien présentera le projet Flex Picture Ebook lors d’une journée de formation d’enseignants assistants au LASUC (Lietuvos aklųjų ir silpnaregių ugdymo centras ou Centre d’éducation lituanien pour les aveugles et les malvoyants) à Vilnius.  

On February 24th of 2025, students and lecturers of the Bachelor’s degree in Special Education and Speech Therapy of Vytautas Magnus University visited the Lithuanian Education Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired. LASUC began cooperation with this university in the spring, when it invited lecturers and students to test the EPUB format and provide […]

On February 17th of 2025, Lithuanian Education Center for Blind and Visually Impaired held a qualification improvement course for specialists working with visually impaired students. 18 educators working in general education or special schools participated in the course. During the course, the Erasmus+ project “Flex picture ebook” was presented to the participants. Participants were introduced […]

On 16 December 2024, students on the Vytautas Magnus University Master’s programme ‘Inclusive Education: Socio-Educational Industries’ visited the Lithuanian Centre for the Education of the Blind and Visually Impaired. During the visit, the students learned about the EPUB format and the possibilities for adapting texts and illustrations for visually impaired students. The Erasmus+ project ‘Flex […]

On 25 October 2024, the Lithuanian Centre for the Education of the Blind and Visually Impaired was visited by the specialists of the methodological group of special educators and speech therapists of Kaunas district. They were introduced to the ongoing Erasmus+ project “Flex picture ebook”. The participants were told about the possibilities of the EPUB […]

On February 24, 2024, the Lithuanian Blind and Visually Impaired Education Center participated in the United Eye Diseases Conference 2024 – student conference for the second year in a row. During the workshops  “The world through the eyes of a visually impaired child”, we had the opportunity to present not only the possibilities of using […]