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LEAD-ME summer school will take place in London in June 2022.

More information about past and future training schools: https://lead-me-cost.eu/events/trainingschools/

TransMedia Catalonia celebrated GAAD 2022 with different activities.

More information: https://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/transmedia/GAAD

Short-term scientific missions are exchange visits for researchers within the LEAD-ME Action. Individuals can spend up to six months at an institution or laboratory based in a different country which is also part of the Action. This is a unique opportunity to receive funding for implementing a project with an international team where the STMS grantees can gain new knowledge and skills in media accessibility or access equipment or techniques that are not available in their home institution.

The international conference Green Digital Accessibility (GDA) will take place in Barcelona, in December 2022.

The call for papers is now open.

More information: https://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/transmedia/gda

ARSAD will take place in Barcelona, in April 2023.

The call for papers is open until 30 September 2022.

More information: https://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arsad/

Media for All Conference will take place in Antwerp, in July 2023.

The call for papers is open until 1July 2022.

More information: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/media-for-all-10/

On August 11, 2021, a group of audio describers from the Eurasian Subtitlers's League made the first ever Russian audio description of a silent film. It was George Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon" (1902).
The choice of the film is not accidental. Georges Méliès was not only a well-known screenwriter, director and actor. He came up with the idea of providing silent films with a short commentary describing what was happening on the screen.

TransMedia Catalonia will have a space at Mobile Week Tecnocampus (Mataró) as part of the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2021, July 7th, 2021, 10:00 am - 14:00 pm (CET). 

TransMedia Catalonia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) will create a showroom where participants can learn and interact with five different technologies: 360 environments, eye- tracking, citizen journalism, ubiquitous and seamless human interaction with space, and accessibility consultancy and training. 

The Media Accessibility Platform will launch its stable release on 20 May 2021 to celebrate the tenth Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

The Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is a worldwide event held every year on the third Thursday of May. The GAAD 2021 will be celebrated on the 20th of May. The GAAD aims at raising awareness about digital access and inclusion.

Young researchers are invited to participate

in the LEAD-ME Winter Training School.

Information is available here.

EASIT is organising a free event

on 27 January 2021.

Check the programme here.

Information: https://pagines.uab.cat/easit/en

ARSAD will take place on 26-27 January 2020.

Programme is now published and registration open.

http://jornades.uab.cat/arsad/

M4ALL will take place on 27-28-29 January 2020.

The programme is published and registration open.

https://jornades.uab.cat/media4all9/

Submission process is open for the Media for All conference and the ARSAD conference,

to be held in Barcelona in January 2021. More information:

M4ALL: http://jornades.uab.cat/media4all9

ARSAD: jornades.uab.cat/arsad/

ARSAD 2021 will take place on 26-27 January 2021.

Media for All 2021 will take place on 27-28-29 January 2021.

More information:

http://jornades.uab.cat/arsad/

http://jornades.uab.cat/media4all9/

EASIT project event in Hildesheim, on 13 February 2020.

Registration is free. Programme available here:

http://pagines.uab.cat/easit/sites/pagines.uab.cat.easit/files/easit_suh_e3_agenda_hildesheim.pdf

TVX / IMX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into interactive media experiences. The conference brings together international researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from human-computer interaction, multimedia engineering and design to media studies, media psychology and sociology. Read more here: https://imx.acm.org/2020/

The call for papers for the Barcelona conference Fun for All has been launched.

Read more: http://jornades.uab.cat/videogamesaccess/

Languages and the Media 2020 has launched its call for papers.

The conference will take place in Berlin, 8-10 June 2020.

More information: https://www.languages-media.com/

Media for All 8 will take place in Stockholm on 17-19 June.

The programme is available here: https://www.tolk.su.se/english/media-for-all-8/programme