A mountain hike, a walk in a romantic park, the descent into a gorge carved by a stream over the millennia … A type of tourism from which, perhaps, many might feel excluded. Not only disabled people, but also seniors or families with small children. What if we could provide everyone with technological solutions […]
Our colleague Eva Hollauf and her team at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences won the Salzburg Social Hackathon 2020 award for their Peyeoneer solution for independent hiking of visually impaired and blind people. The Social Hackathon has been sponsored by the State of Salzburg within the initiative Startup Salzburg. 100 master-degree students worked in […]
Under this principle, the GATE project has set itself the goal of creating tourism offers dedicated to people with disabilities. In order to give voice to this effort and to gain a more precise picture of actual needs, the SME & Tourism team led by Prof. Mike Peters of the University of Innsbruck, working together […]
This is what lieutenant Piero Jahier wrote after visiting the mother of one of his fallen Alpine troopers who died in the Tofane mountains during the Great War. This was his first time for him in Alpago, yet, reading his words, he must have felt something similar to those who cross through this territory today, […]
With the GATE Project we are developing an interactive reality game in order to offer a multimedia play experience for everyone, with the innovative use of theatrical languages and advanced digital technologies. Parco Rossi is a romantic garden of high landscape value in Santorso, in the province of Vicenza. The Park is a welcoming and […]
To make the GEOMuseum of Redagno accessible to all visitors, Independent L. (PP2), together with the experts of the consulting service for the removal of architectural barriers, has developed an adaptation plan in compliance with Art. 11 of South Tyrolean Provincial Law 7/2002. The building accessibility was assessed on the basis of the architectural barriers […]
Allow everyone, beyond any physical barriers, to get to know the Alpine and pre-Alpine areas: this is the goal of the GATE project. To achieve this goal, technologies like virtual reality, apps and chatbots are also used. In this way, the World Heritage of the Dolomites can really belong to everyone. The first activities are […]