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Hearing in the Communication Society
Action Line: e-inclusion
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Coordinator |
Contact Person:
Name: VLAMING, Marcellus Simon Maria Gemma
Email: m.vlaming@vumc.nl |
Organisation:
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT MEDICAL CENTER AMSTERDAM
DE BOELELAAN 1117
1081 HV AMSTERDAM
NETHERLANDS
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Our society is strongly and
increasingly communication-oriented. Focusing on
sound and speech, many people experience severe
limitations in their activities, caused either by
hearing loss or by poor environmental conditions. In
most cases these conditions only just meet the needs
for adult native-language, and normal hearing
people, but fall short for vulnerable groups like
elderly, hard of hearing, young children, and
second-language users. The HEARCOM project aims at
full participation in the modern communication
society by reducing the limitations in auditory
communication. The focus of HEARCOM is on:-The
identification and characterization of auditory
communication limitations .The identification,
modelling, and evaluation of ambient conditions that
limit auditive communication in everyday
situations.-The development of standardized testing
and evaluation procedures for hearing impaired
persons.-The development of rehabilitation and
signal enhancement techniques that compensate
adverse ambient conditions and personal
disabilities. The development of innovative
assistive personal communication technology based on
wireless communication links and assistive
applications integrated in mainstream technologies.
The development of Internet services that assist
individuals and professionals in the improvement and
compensation of communication problems. The
consortium consists of universities, clinics,
research institutes, user organisations and
manufacturers in the field of speech and hearing,
telecommunications, and Internet. The project will
relate to the mechanisms that influence
communication problems as well as the development of
methods for screening, rehabilitation, and
evaluation. These methods are developed for major
European language areas with the goal to create a
common European approach. Internet services will
play a central role in providing information,
procedures, and methods such that everybody can
participate in the communication society.
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Project details |
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Project Reference: 4171 |
Contract Type: Integrated
Project |
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Project Cost: 9.07 million
euro |
Project Funding: 7.50
million euro |
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Participant Organization:
Cochlear Europe Limited |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast
natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek - TNO |
Country: NETHERLANDS |
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Participant Organization:
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN |
Country: BELGIUM |
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Participant Organization:
THALES COMMUNICATIONS S.A. |
Country: FRANCE |
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Participant Organization:
Nokia OYJ |
Country: FINLAND |
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Participant Organization:
APIF MOVIQUITY S.A. |
Country: SPAIN |
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Participant Organization:
GN ReSound Group A/ S |
Country: DENMARK |
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Participant Organization:
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER
ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
SIEMENS AUDIOLOGISCHE TECHNIK GMBH |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET |
Country: DENMARK |
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Participant Organization:
HOERTECH GGMBH |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
KURATORIUM OFFIS E. V. |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet
Erlangen-Nuernberg |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
Hoerzentrum Oldenburg, Germany |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN |
Country: SWEDEN |
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Participant Organization:
UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH |
Country: SWITZERLAND |
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Participant Organization:
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEAF PEOPLE |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING |
Country: GREECE |
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Participant Organization:
ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER ROTTERDAM |
Country: NETHERLANDS |
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Participant Organization:
Universiteit van Amsterdam - Academisch
Ziekenhuis |
Country: NETHERLANDS |
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Participant Organization:
LINKOEPINGS UNIVERSITET |
Country: SWEDEN |
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Participant Organization:
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza |
Country: POLAND |
RCN: 71919
Last updated: 2004-10-22 |
