2018 Calls for projects laureates

In 2018, FIRAH and its partners launched two calls for projects of applied research on disability. After the period selection 4 researches are announced as laureates.

Disability & extreme poverty in partnership with the Croix Rouge Française and the Fondation d'entreprise MAAF Initiatives et Handicap:

To what extent are motor and sensory disabilities a factor in the non-use of emergency social services by the homeless? A look at the situation in Paris and Lausanne with the aim of designing accessibility guidelines. 
A research project carried out by the CREAI Ile de France, with the Haute École de Travail Social of Lausanne, the Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, and different aid organizations (the SAMU social of Paris, l’Armée du Salut…) and associations for disabled persons.

The aim is to measure the extent to which disability in the homeless impedes access to emergency social services in Paris and Lausanne, by limiting accessibility to welfare organizations and to welfare support for these people, whose needs are not taken into account.
This Collaborative Action Research (CAR) aims to offer pragmatic suggestions, working with homeless people and emergency service providers to design guidelines for the care and support of people with disabilities.

 

General call for projects:

 

Mediation and digital accessibility for deaf students (MANES)
A research project conducted by the Université Grenoble Alpes, the Université Lyon 2, the Haute Ecole Charlemagne (Belgium), and with the participation of deaf students, teachers, administrative staff and disability support services.

The general aim is to optimize academic success for deaf students in written French, by improving the identification of specific needs, and by examining the introduction of technological and teaching tools adapted to their specific writing needs. One of the aims of the project is to evaluate the usefulness of automatic vocal recognition techniques (AvaMe, RogerVoice…) in note-taking for deaf students.

 

Co-construction of interventions and multiple expertise. The trio of « person concerned, caregiver, healthcare professional » in interventions for people with mental disabilities
A research project conducted by the Centre d’Etude et de Recherche Appliquée (CERA), the Institut Régional et Européen des Métiers de l’Intervention Sociale (IREIS). The research team is composed of people with mental disabilities, healthcare professionals, and researchers.

Based on participatory research facilitating co-construction of the intervention between people with mental disabilities, caregivers and healthcare professionals, this project aims to provide people with disabilities with services which promote social inclusion and self-determination, in the home and living environment.

This project will use research knowledge to produce a digital module for training and self-training. The aim of this module is to enable the different parties concerned to co-construct support solutions for people with mental disabilities, by building on the knowledge of each person concerned.

I decide and act in my own environment
A research project conducted by the Fédération Trisomie 21 France with the Université de Bordeaux and the Université de Mons (Belgium).

The aim of this project is to design, develop and promote a tool entitled « I decide and act in my own environment »
Its aim to to help people to break down, plan and follow the evolution of the necessary steps to achieve personal goals.
This tool will be accessible to all, in particular people with Down’s syndrome and intellectual disabilities. The starting point of the project will be to analyse the use of the french assistant « C'est ma vie, je la choisis », and to evaluate repercussions of its use on the ability to build life projects. 
The assistant « C'est ma vie, je la choisis » was produced by a research project funded by the FIRAH.