Dissemination and PR Activities

During the first year of the project, FASTY partners have carried out several activities for the dissemination of the expected results of the project and the benefits of the future use of its results.

Project presentation on the web

There is a presentation of the FASTY project on this Web-Site.

Project Folder

The Project Folder, with an overview of the objectives and features of the project, has been issued in English, German, French, Dutch and Swedish and distributed at meetings, conferences and workshops. It is also available for download at the FASTY project pages.

Project presentations

The FASTY partners have participated in several conferences and other events, as detailed below:

• IST Concertation meeting, 1 March 2001.
• ScienceWeek@Austria, 11-20 May 2001.
• Medicon 2001 IX Mediterranean Conference on Medical And Biological Engineering and Computing, 12-15 June 2001.
• TALN 2001, Tours, France, 2-5 July 2001.
• AAATE, Ljubljana, Croatia, 3-6 September 2001.
• Regional ISAAC conference, Dortmund, Germany, 15 September 2001.

The FASTY partners have participated in the following workshops, seminars or courses:

• IST Multivision Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 20 April 2001.
• FASTY Workshop, Germany, 12 June 2001.
• "9. Wiener Seminar Rehabilitationstechnik und Schulung im Dienste des Behinderten und seiner Umwelt" (Seminar on Rehabilitation Technology and Training, AKH Vienna, 13 June 2001.
• FASTY U1 Workshop
• Workshop, Creth, Belgium, 21 August 2001.
• RehaCare Fair, Düsseldorf, Germany, 5 October 2001.
• Fachtagung "Computer helfen heilen", Berlin, Germany, 9-10 November 2001.
• Workshop, Creth, Belgium, 4 December 2001.

In the following countries, articles about FASTY have been published in newspapers and also an interview on the radio has been carried out.

Austria:

• Two articles in ÖGAI (Austrian national scientific journal), July 2001.
• Radio broadcast feature on the Ö1 channel of the Austrian broadcast cooperation, 18 August 2001.

France:

• TALN paper for conference, July 2001.

United Kingdom:

• Article "Getting up to speed with FASTY" in issue 40 of Ability magazine of the British Computer Society, November 2001.

Presentation of FASTY to different interest groups

The FASTY project has also been presented to different interest groups. We detail hereinafter the following countries as concrete channels where some contacts were made.

Belgium:

• Presentation to Créneau.
• Presentation to Modem.