International projects
Turiba University is actively expanding its international cooperation, initiating, developing, and implementing various local, national, and international projects.
We believe that the development of the University is inconceivable without innovative initiatives, the creation of new teaching approaches and methods, and without international collaboration. To prepare high-quality new professionals, it is essential for our university to provide opportunities for learning in an international environment, meeting lecturers, and professionals from around the world. Therefore, we realize international projects in collaboration with universities and partners worldwide.
Through these projects, we have developed new and innovative educational resources and tools, published books, organized international conferences, exchange trips, study visits, summer schools, and other activities.
We have extensive experience in international project management and have been actively involved in coordinating projects such as Central Baltic Interreg, Erasmus Mundus, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs program, European Social fund, JUSTICE, NORDPLUS, and ERASMUS+ projects.
Project department initiate and implement projects in collaboration with our faculties and their experts. We are excited to collaborate and bring your ideas to life! Get in touch with us:
KRISTĪNE NEIMANE, Head of project department: kristine.neimane@turiba.lv, Phone: +371 67615541, mob.+371 29628681
IEVA BRUKSLE, Project coordinator: ieva.bruskle@turiba.lv, Phone: +371 67616022
INtroducing training on user Testing with people with disabilities into UX design and related higher education programmes
On September 2022 Turiba University started to implement the ERASMUS+ cooperation partnership project INTUX. Project focuses on UX design testing with people with disabilities and development of study modules for higher education programmes. Project was implemented in cooperation with 6 partners – from Latvia, Slovenia and Spain.
The main goal of the INTUX project was to develop and implement in universities programmes modules which will train students how to create user experience design accessible and convenient for people with special needs.
UX design is the process of designing digital products (webpages, mobile applications) that are useful, easy to use, and delightful to interact with. It is important for any IT student to learn how to create products that are convenient and easy to use. But do universities pay sufficient attention in their curricula to teach students how to create websites and apps that are suitable for people with disabilities? For example, for people with visual or hearing impairments, people with mobility impairments, people with difficulties to perceive and navigate the information posted on websites?
As part of this project, universities, in collaboration with organizations representing the interests of people with disabilities , worked on developing a training program to equip IT students with the necessary knowledge and skills to design both websites and applications that are accessible and user-friendly for individuals with disabilities. Experts developed a specialized handbook, recommendations, and teaching materials, as well as practical case-based scenarios. These scenarios were tested within the project, involving people with disabilities in user experience testing, thereby contributing to the promotion of digital accessibility.
Project partners:
Turiba University (Latvia) – leading partner
University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Technical University of Madrid (Spain)
Asociacion Autismo Sevilla” (Spain)
National Council of Disability Organizations of Slovenia (Slovenia)
Latvian Umbrella Body for Disability organisations SUSTENTO (Latvia)
Funka Nu AB (Sweden) – at the initial stage of the project
Funka Foundation (Sweden) – in the final stage of the project
Project implementation period: 01.09.2022 to 31.08.2024.
INTUX Website: http://accessibility.turiba.lv/
Contacts:
Academic leader of the project
Jānis Pekša
Janis.peksa@turiba.lv
Project manager
Ieva Bruksle
Ieva.bruksle@turiba.lv
The project is financed from the ERASMUS+ program. Project number: 2022-1-LV01-KA220-HED-000087964
