TransMedia Catalonia present TRACTION for Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020 The Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is an event that takes place every year all around the world and aims at raising awareness about the importance of digital accessibility for a more inclusive society. The 9th Annual Global [...]

Remote participation in the 5th Comunicación y Pensamiento conference, (Sevilla, Spain) (Photo from: https://comunicacionypensamiento.org/inicio/) The V Congreso Internacional Comunicación y Pensamiento was organised by the Spanish R&D Project “JUVEN-TV: Nuevos consumos frente a viejos estereotipos: Análisis de la recepción por parte de la juventud española de sus representaciones [...]

Traction in the European Parliament Born Accessible Day POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 Due to the outbreak and spread of the viral disease COVID-19, non-core events involving outside visitors or attendees to Parliament’s premises have been cancelled until further notice. One of the future policy [...]

“A Million Dreams for the world we’re going to make” - Camille Donegan, Virtual Reality Ireland (from "The Greatest Showman" soundtrack) (Carlow Arts Festival 2019 where young people used the Kingsray Graffiti VR tool to graffiti virtual walls) The lyrics of the song, ‘A Million Dreams’ from the Greatest [...]

Why we’re making a VR community opera James Bingham, Irish National Opera One of the many reasons why I love working on a European project is the opportunity to interact with new colleagues. One outcome of this was seeing this short video sent to the consortium by François Matarasso [...]

How technology will contribute to TRACTION According to writer, speaker and consultant Steven Johnson[1] - a specialist in behavioural change, sustainability, and social innovation - “digital technology is creating unprecedented opportunities to encourage, enable and empower more sustainable behaviours. (...) The true potential of technology lies [...]