Potential Partners for Funding Requests

• Inference group, Cambridge University

• GNU (accessibility liaison: Chris Hofstader, cdh on gnu dot org)

• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

European Union Opportunities

From Introduction to EU fundings:

• The Commission awards money in the form of grants in order to implement projects or activities in relation to European Union policies. Grants are not awarded on a case-by-case basis. Instead, they are subject to annual programming.

• Before 31 March each year, those Departments of the Commission that manage grant programmes publish their annual work programme on their Internet site. The work programme fixes the broad outlines of the grants that are envisaged over the year (area of activity, objectives, timetable, available budget, award conditions, etc…). By consulting these work programmes you may thus already identify the fields which interest you.

• Subsequently, the Commission’s Departments publish calls for proposals on their Internet sites; the calls for proposals invite candidates to present, within a given deadline, a proposal for action that corresponds to the objectives pursued and fulfils the required conditions. These calls for proposals can also be published in the Official Journal of the European Union – C series.

Associations of and/or for Persons with Disabilities

International

• Handicap International
• WHO
• UNICEF

• ICEVI International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment

• ONCE International

France

• AGEFIPH (Professional insertion of paople with handicap)
• APAJH - Association Pour Adultes et Jeunes Handicappés
• AFM - Association Français contre les Myopathies (Muscular Dystrophy)
• APF - Association des Paralysés de France

• MDPH - The network of Maisons Départementale des Personnes Handicappées

• See Google Directory for more

Spain

• ONCE (Spanish National Organisation of the Blind)

• Fundación ONCE (ONCE Foundation for Cooperation and the Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities)

• COCEMFE (Spanish Confederation of People with Physical and Organic Disabilities)

• Programme "Guadalinfo Accesible" from the Andalusian Fernando de los Rios Consortium

• See Google Directory for more