Innovation lab for digital inclusion (IDI)

Abstract

The aim of this participatory research project is to address the issue of when, where and why ‘one-size-fits-all’ premises, i.e. the assumption that the same digital solutions could solve everyone’s challenges to inclusion, will reach limitations in an inclusive context. In terms of content, based on theoretical considerations on inclusion and digitization, taking into account various dimensions (including legal, economic, political), a practice-relevant model for inclusive digitization for different fields of application (e.g. including school or economy / labor market) will be developed.

Outcome Summary

The result of the collaboration is, on the surface, a stable starting point and a proposal text from which to continue working on the issue. A concrete division of the cooperation was agreed upon, only some theoretical, content-related points - such as the concrete underlying perspective on inclusion - still need to be further refined, as well as a detailed elaboration of how the cooperation could proceed.

In terms of content, the thematic area of disability-inclusion-digitization has proven to be a viable focus for consortial cooperation. This thematic area allows the different areas of expertise to be interdisciplinary and to operate at different levels of application and basic research. The concretization in the direction of understanding inclusion, social framework conditions of digitalization, and modeling of digitally inclusive practices in different fields of action (school, vocational training, etc.) span the arc to theories of high complexity (wide range - systematic basic research in the humanities); theories of medium range (middle range - empirical basic research in defined fields of action) and ad hoc theories (source - basic research on specific system and action models). Based on the research and cooperation in this project, an FWF application was written.