Project Objectives

• To develop an innovative and affordable system/service for interactive SL teaching for students in Special Education/Pedagogical departments and primary school education. It will be based on computer vision, machine learning, linguistic technology, and avatars developed by all the involved partners in several national and EU-funded projects that are ongoing or recently completed. Thus, we aim at the exploitation of research results at the European level which would not be possible without the contribution of the EU.
• To set up the CAT-SL infrastructure in four Higher Education Institutes (one for every partner), and one primary education one, based on open standards; to enable its practical use by teachers and students.
• To develop curricula and guides for teaching SL using the CAT-SL system for at least two multilingual courses, in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and the Netherlands; to support the social inclusion of the deaf children.
• To actively disseminate the project results through the promotion of workshops with stakeholders in the EU to raise awareness of the main challenges faced by the Deaf.