Name: 先見の明のあるヨーロッパ (The Visionary Europe)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:51:50.000Z
Duration: 37 min 36 s
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I would describe this week with the words unique fun good feeling challenging

a lot of energy good network amazing unforgettable encouraging

And I am from Berlin I am Italian I was born in Padova, near Venice

So Dario came up with the idea of Noisyvision and to do something beyond Noisyvision to connect people more to Noisyvision

I am one of the organizer of the workshop

together with my friend and colleague Olga I am visually impaired and hearing impaired

I saw this program of the European Union which is called Grundtvig Program, a program of the Lifelong Learning to try to find a partner

organization which was ProRetina, which is a self help organization of people with Retinitis Pigmentosa

My role in this week is part of the organization

and the decision of what we were going to do and the generation of the idea behind and

why we wanted to do this workshop and what we wanted to do

We were reaching out different self help organizations and different NGO in all European Countries

to find the participants The selection process was extremely difficult

because of all the people that wanted to participate and we also wanted to give the chance to participate

Another role during the week is that I am trying to get people involved and offer my support

We developed the program together and it took one and half year to come up with a good structure actually it was a pretty long road to go

We have four trainers and some other volunteers

My name is Karina Chupina I originally come from Saint Petersburg, in Russia

In my training work I am a specialist focused on exploring and developing the accessible

and inclusive approaches with young people from minorities, including young people with

different types of disabilities This is what I like to do

I am also here to help with the educational methods that help all participants to work

together, to have a good teamwork for the entire week, to learn from each other,

to share the experiences This is the first time that I work with an

entire group of partially sighted young people

So, we have 16 people from over 8 countries From Romania, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, ...

They all are partially sighted, for different reasons

and for different length of time Somebody since two years, somebody since birth

And they are all very motivated which is something we found out already in the process of communicating

We all come from different countries, different educational backgrounds, different cultures,

different levels of disabilities as well, and since we are so different there is so much to learn from each other

I was already very happy from the very beginning

and I have seen that people are really motivated I have seen that so far everything went very well

The responses are extremely well until now

It seems like people cherish and like the opportunity to be here, meet other people

from other countries and exchange and share the experiences

I think the feedback so far was really nice

Create some new ways, some different ways, of informing and involving, even people that are not partially sighted

Of course we hope that it will be participants that will help us to disseminate this wider

I discovered my condition two years ago and it was really hard, but I really feel good

when the eye doctor said "you have retinitis pigmentosa" because I think immediately

Oohhh I am not crazy, I have something!!!

I discovered it three years ago and so I am not used to be a visually impaired person

This happened to me two years ago and I had to change my life in an instant like that

I have only been partially sighted for like four years And this is the first time I travelled on

I had really high expectations First when I saw the advertisement of this

workshop I was really happy and I knew that I will apply and that it would be a great

thing for me so when I got selected I was really happy and I was partying in my flat alone

I didn't know ... at the beginning I thought

it is not a big deal, but actually it has been really great meeting people in similarsituations

To see the opportunity that other people are

dealing with this and what other people can do it kind of inspires me

You learn from their experiences. They may have come across the same problems as I have

but since they come from different backgrounds they are able to see it in a different way

and maybe have tackled it successfully in a way they seem fit and if i can go and talk

to them, get ideas from them how to tackle certain problems because of their different

perspectives, it leads to different solutions which is amazing

To share the information of course and to learn and meet other people from differentcountries

Getting people together, who have disabilities, trying to find a way on how to get along with

this, make a community which could improve the living quality of people like us

And then its just to have fun and meet good people, like minded people, and maybe have

some blind guides when I go to their cities. Which is always a good thing

It is just an experiment for now but, who knows, maybe it will grow bigger

The main thing is to enjoy, have fun and also have a bit of hope

So I would like that me and the rest of the team at the end of this workshop will have

a true experience to share back in their home countries and with their own friends and people

Sometimes the main restrictions they are still behind your mind or sometimes is the attitude

of the other people and you need to have responsibility, you need to have good skills, and your own

motivation and confidence to overcome those, maybe, stereotypical attitudes from the other people, or prejudices, from the other people

We are now trying to put together our minds

and experiences in order to improve the idea that we don't need to see necessarily with

the eyes, but more with the mind and the hearth Which is also the bottom line and the mission of Noisyvision

Any workshop with and for young people with

disabilities is about looking more at the ability rather than at your disability

To investigate some new possibilities of dealing with low vision and raising awareness

Especially in the last days I realized that the main thing is to enjoy and have a space

and an opportunity to put together people to share information and possibilities for

We joint this place, we are now in Kreuzberg Berlin is a fantastic city

Yesterday it was the best day, I really liked walking around

It is the first time I didn't get lost even though we all have visual impairment

We all had to look at the map and it helped me to try more because I wasn't embarrassed

about holding the map right up to my face or taking a long time because people were

very good at waiting and being patient which was great, really great

We were getting confidence by exploring the city on our won, we were given the chance

to choose our own path instead of being told you go to this street and there

We were just told go from point A to point B  however you want

... and not rush, just take our time and we got to really enjoy Berlin, only seeing

tiny bit of it but it just made me angry to come back for more

14:52 VIP CITY According to the exploration that we had,

the exploration of Berlin, this week, there were a lot of interesting conclusions about

what can be actually improved in terms of accessibility