ETNA is a thematic network funded by the European Union, within the framework of the ICT PSP Programme. Over a period of 3 years, it will establish a European Web Portal able to provide a unified access to information on European ICT assistive products, on related organisations, services, and to allow access to repositories of freeware, open source software products and tools useful for e-accessibility.
Such a Portal will initially stem from the already-existing website of the European Assistive Technology Information Network (EASTIN), the most comprehensive European information service on AT.
Our network
We are 23 leading Organizations, each with acknowledged commitment in the ICT AT area at national or international level, scattered across 13 European Countries. We work in collaboration with ATIS4All (Assistive Technologies and Inclusive Solutions for All) project, another Thematic Network belonging to the same cluster.
The project leader is the Centre for Innovation and Technical Transfer (CITT) of the Don Gnocchi Foundation, the largest private non-for-profit provider of care and rehabilitation services for people with disabilities and elderly people in Italy.
Our goals
Providing transparent and easily available information on AT and accessibility products and services offered across Europe, thus empowering citizens with a disability in relation to the knowledge and the choice of assistive technologies
Initiating an interdisciplinary and trans-national community of expertise involving academics, industrialists, professionals in health care and education, end-users, researchers and developers, with a great potential to improve exchange of knowledge, ideas and thus boosting the development of assistive solutions at various levels (including open source software products)
Promoting a unified AT and accessibility market helping companies – especially SMEs, who dominate in this area – to benefit from huge market potential
Key events at each step will be technical workshops with representatives of all partners, monthly webinars (interactive seminars delivered on-line) and steady interaction between stakeholders through the virtual community established by the ATIS4All Network.
The ETNA Consortium
ETNA is an EU-wide network involving 23 leading Institutions in 13 Countries.
- Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milano, Italy (project leader)
- Institut Der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln E.V., Cologne, Germany (partner)
- Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, Taastrup, Denmark (partner)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, Genova, Italy (partner)
- The National Board of Social Services, Odense, Denmark (partner)
- Universitaet Linz, Institut Integriert Studieren, Linz, Austria (partner)
- Ace Centre Advisory Trust, Oxford, UK (partner)
- Fundación Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain (partner)
- John Gill Technology Ltd, Iver, UK (partner)
- Instituto de Mayores y Servicios Sociales, CEAPAT, Madrid, Spain (partner)
- Associazione Italiana per l’Assistenza agli Spastici Provincia di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (partner)
- Handicaps et Cadre de Vie, Hacavie, Lille, France (partner)
- Technical University Kosice, Access Centre, Kosice, Slovakia (partner)
- Disabled Living Foundation, London, UK (partner)
- Vastra Gotalands Lans Landsting, DART Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg, Sweden (partner)
- Hogeschool Zuyd, Research Centre Technology in Care , Maastricht, The Netherlands (partner)
- Terveyden ja Hyvinvoinnin Laitos (National Institute for Welfare and Health), Helsinki, Finland (partner)
- EASPD – European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities, Bruxelles, Belgium (partner)
- Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Hellenic Institute for Transport, Athens/Thessaloniki, Greece (partner)
- Disability Now / Anapiria Tora, Athens, Greece (partner)
Kehitysvammaliitto Ry (Finnish Association for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities), Helsinki, Finland (partner) - The Nottingham Trent University, Interactive Systems Research Group, Nottingham, UK (partner)
- Evangelische Stiftung Volmarstein, Forschungsinstitut Technologie und Behinderung, Wetter, Germany (partner)