REA college

Potential exemplary from the Netherlands

EMINUS project at the REA college

REA college (vocational training for people with a physical disability) provides virtual classroom through which students with disability which would find difficult to move to school everyday can be trained at home for jobs that they can easily carry out from their homes. Eminus, the name of the project, is in fact the Latin term for ‘on a distance’ or ‘at a distance’. EMINUS includes virtual classes of four students per teacher, interactive communication and live presentations of lessons and aims to get as close as possible to regular education. Fast internet connections and streaming video allow for non-verbal communication – such as body language or even sign language – which is essential for getting a message across. The initiative also enables students to take part in social activities. For example, they will be missed if they are not present online. They can find and talk to each other just as though they were in a school yard.

Information in english can be retrieved at http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/socialcohesion/egs/cases/nl004.htm