Events in 2001

17 - 19 July: Sight Village, 8th Annual International Exhibition of Services & Equipment for People with a Visual Impairment, Birmingham (UK)
24 - 29 July: 5th DbI European Conference on Deafbildness, Noordwijkkerhout (The Netherlands)
26 - 30 August: European Conference on Visual Perception, Kusadasi (Turkey)
3 - 6 September: 6th European Conference for the Advancement of Assitive Technoly, Ljubliana (Slovenia)
4 - 6 October: 5th Annual Research Conference of Nordic Network on Disability Research, Copenhagen (Denmark)
25 - 26 October: International Conference in Budapest on the occasion of the 175th Anniversary of Education of visually impaired children in Budapest and the 100th Anniversary of the School for the Blind in Budapest.
27 - 28 October: Eurosight 2001: Low Vision Conference in Stresa, Italy, entitled: The challenge of visual rehabilitation in Early Childhood. Conference office: Fondazione Robert Hollman.
8 - 9 November: Language and Visualisation, Stockholm (Sweden)
24 - 28 November: European conference: "Employability Enhancement of Visually Impaired People", Bratislava (Slovak Republic)
27 - 28 November: Techshare 2001: "Making Technology make a Difference", Birmingham (UK)

Events in 2002

18 - 19 January: Balkan Conference on Vocational training and Employment, Athens.
3-7 April: 3^rd Workshop on Training of Teachers of the Visually Impaired: "Preparing Teachers of the Visually impaired to support Integration/Inclusion", organised by ICEVI-Europe
Academy of Special Education Maria Grzegorzewska, address: ul.Szczesliwicka nr 40, Warsaw
16-19 April: Braille in the Age of Digitisation, Copenhagen, Denmark.
An International Braille Symposium on the Development of Individual and Institutional Needs and Solutions.
15 - 20 July 2002: 8th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs ICCHP '02, Linz (Austria)
21 - 25 July 2002: 7th International Low Vision Conference, Goteborg (Sweden)
27 July - 2 August 2002: 11th ICEVI 50th Anniversary World Conference
New Vision: "Moving toward an Inclusive Community".
Leeuwenhorst Congress Centre, Noordwijkerhout (The Netherlands).
10 - 15 August 2002: Wonderful Communication, 10th International ISAAC Conference, Odense (Denmark)
10 - 14 October 2002: Costitutive meeting of the ICEVI European Committee, Chemnitz (Germany)
14 October 2002: 170 years of Aloys Klar School, Praha (Czech Republic)
22 - 23 November 2002: AAATE seminar - Assistive Technology (AT) and Mainstream Technology (MST) in debate, iRv - Institute for Rehabilitation Research, Hoensbroek (The Netherlands)
30 November 2002: Meeting of the Education commission of the EBU in Athens (Greece)
2 December 2002: Launching Event of European Day of Disabled People in Brussels (Belgium)
6 - 8 December 2002: 8th Seminar for European Educators of O&M and/or ADL Instructors for Blind and Low Vision Persons (Frankfurt/Main, Germany)

Events in 2003

23 - 25 April 2003: EULUX, International Symposium, Bolzano (Italy)
27 - 30 March 2003: EXCO meeting ICEVI, Stellenbosch
12 - 14 May 2003: DAISY 2003 Conference, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
22 - 25 May 2003: SightCity Exhibition, Frankfurt (Germany)
22 - 27 June 2003: 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete (Greece)
12 - 19 July 2003: ICC - International Computer Camp for partially sighted and blind teens (for students aged 15 to 17 years), Zollikofen (Switzerland)
15 - 17 July: Sight Village, International exhibition of Equipment and Services for people with a visual impairment, Birmingham (UK)
17 - 21 July 2003: European Blind Union Employment Conference, Paris (France)
22 - 29 July 2003: ICC - International Computer Camp for partially sighted and blind teens (for students aged 17 to 20 years), Zollikofen (Switzerland)
1 - 9 August 2003: World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council, Berlin (Germany)
4 - 8 August 2003: VBS Congress, Dortmund (Germany)
Educational conference, ar. 800 - 1100 participants, central conference for german speaking staff working at institutions for visually disabled people in Europe.
31 August - 3 September 2003: 7th biannual Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, Dublin (Ireland)
10 - 12 September 2003: "Accessibility of Electronic Information to People with Disabilities", Bratislava (Slovakia)
13 - 16 September 2003: Third European VitreoRetinal Society Congress, Sopron (Hungary)
26 September 2003: Deadline for submission of formal/position papers, poster abstracts for
2nd Cambridge Workshop on UNIVERSAL ACCESS and ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (CWUAAT), Cambridge (United Kingdom)
see below for deatils
15 - 18 October 2003: REHACare International, Düsseldorf (Germany). International Trade Fair for Those with Special Needs and Those Requiring Care
29 - 31 October 2003: International Conference on Music Education for the Blind and Partially Sighted, Copenhagen (Denmark)
20 - 21 November 2003: RNIB Techshare, Birmingham (UK)

Events in 2004

16 - 17 February 2004: agora Thessaloniki conference "Vocational education and training research in Europe. To what end?", Thessaloniki (Greece)
22 - 24 March 2004: 2nd Cambridge Workshop on UNIVERSAL ACCESS and ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (CWUAAT), incorporating the 5th Cambridge Workshop on Rehabilitation Robotics) - "DESIGNING A MORE INCLUSIVE WORLD", Cambridge (United Kingdom)
10 - 22 May 2004: ELLPROFT seminar, Tallinn (Estonia) - Including visually impaired people in standard e-learning courses.
1 - 2 June 2004: Seeing Better Ireland, Dublin (Ireland) - An Exhibition of Information Technology, Resources, Equipment and Services for people with sight loss in Ireland.
3 - 4 June 2004: Seeing Better Ireland, Belfast (Northern Ireland).
18 - 20 June 2004: 1st International BiOptic Driving Conference, London (UK)
21 - 24 June 2004: Rethinking Rehabilitation - 20th World Congress of Rehabilitation International, Oslo (Norway)
29 June - 2 July 2004: CVHI 2004 - Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment, Granada (Spain)
5 - 6 July 2004: Pre-Conference ICCHP (see below)
7 - 9 July 2004: ICCHP 2004 - 9th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Paris (France)
13 - 15 July 2004: Sight Village: 8th Annual International Exhibition of Services and Equipment for People with a Visual Impairment, Birmingham (UK)
27 - 30 July 2004: 5th International Conference on Higher Education and Disability, Innsbruck (Austria)
17 - 26 September 2004: Paralympic Games, Athens (Greece)
23 - 26 September 2004: 4th ICEVI European Teachers Training Workshop on Visual Impairment, Budapest (Hungary)
10 - 13 November 2004: REHACARE, Düsseldorf (Germany)
11 - 12 November 2004: Tactile reading - tactile understanding. Learning processes, knowledge and communication. Stockholm (Sweden)

Events in 2005

23 - 26 February 2005: International Developments in Rehabilitation to work, Östersund (Sweden)
4-8 April 2005: Vision 2005, RNIB, London (UK)
8th International conference, hosted by RNIB, organised under the auspices of the International society of Low-vision research and rehabilitation.
23-28 April 2005: ICEVI-Europe workshop on The Use of New Technologies in Teaching the Visually Impaired, Bordeaux-Ambares (France)
4-8 May 2005: 3rd ICEVI Balkan Conference
21-28 July, 31 July - 7 August 2005: ICC'05 - INTERNATIONAL CAMP on Communication and Computers, Brno (Czech Republic)
1-4 August 2005: ISEC 2005, International Special Education Congress - Inclusion: Celebrating Diversity, Glasgow (Scotland)
2-7 August 2005: 6th DbI European Conference on Deafblindness, Presov (Slovakia)
14-18 August 2005: ICEVI European conference in Chemnitz (Germany)
19-22 September 2005: 8th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE), Lille (France)
29 September-1 October 2005: International conference "EQUAL RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN ACADEMIC SETTINGS, Strbske Pleso, High Tatras (Slovak Republic).
5-8 October 2005: EVER 2005 - European Association for Vision and Eye Research, Vilamoura (Portugal).
17-18 November 2005: Techshare, Birmingham (UK)
18-20 November 2005: TifloInnova 2005, Madrid (Spain)

Events in 2006

11-14 January 2006: BETT 2006 - educational ICT event, London (United Kingdom).
30-31 March 2006: DAISY - Reading the future, at Hilton Stockholm Slussen, Stockholm (Sweden).
10-12 April 2006: CWUAAT'06 - "Designing Accessible technology". 3rd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (incorporating the 6th Cambridge Workshop on Rehabilitation Robotics). Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).
03-06 May 2006: First International Education Conference on Batten Disease, Örebro (Sweden). Conference Theme: Quality of life - Lifelong enrichment.
17-19 May 2006: SightCity, Sheraton Airport - Frankfurt (Germany).
12-14 July 2006: ICCHP 2006, 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz (Austria). Equality = e-Quality (Equal Access to the Information Society Depending on the Quality of ICT and AT).
16-21 July 2006: 12th ICEVI World Conference, Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). ACHIEVING EQUALITY IN EDUCATION: NEW CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE.
18-20 July 2006: Sight Village, Birmingham (England).
18-20 September 2006: Disability Studies Association Conference 2006, Lancaster (UK).
27-28 September 2006: 9th ERCIM Workshop "User Interfaces For All", Königswinter, Bonn (Germany).
09-10 October 2006: Round-table meeting for European psychologists in the field of visual impairment, Copenhagen (Denmark).

Events in 2007

16 January 2007: Extending Horizons - Accessibility to Next Generation Networks, London (UK)
02-04 April 2007: Include 2007: designing with people, London (UK). Strategies, stories and systems for user participation in design.
20-24 April 2007: 2nd International Smiling Child Festival, Istanbul (Turkey)
9-11 May 2007: SightCity, Frankfurt (Germany)
10-12 May 2007: 9th Nordic Network on Disability Research Conference, Göteborg (Sweden)
The conference theme 2007 "Participation for all - the front line of disability research".
14-15 May 2007: NordiC Assistive Technology Conference (NAT-C), Oslo (Norway)
18-19 May 2007: 5th Workshop on Training of Teachers of the Visually Impaired in Europe, Bratislava (Slovak Republic)
Training Specialist Teachers for Children with Visual Impairment: Exploring the Role of Learner-Centered Instructional Approaches
17-19 July 2007: Sight Village, Birmingham (UK)
23-30 July 2007: International Camp on Communication & Computers, The Arla Institute, Espoo (Finland)
- for students aged 15 to 17 years.
1-8 August 2007: International Camp on Communication & Computers, The Arla Institute, Espoo (Finland)
- for students aged 17 to 20 years.
3-4 October 2007: 9th European Conference of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE), San Sebastian (Spain)
4-5 October 2007: Techshare 2007, London (UK)
24-25 October 2007: Visual Impairment, Communication and Autism Spectrum Disorder Conference, Glasgow (UK)

Events in 2008

8 February 2008 (Friday): Conference: Do you see what I mean? Developing communication in children and young people with complex needs and poor sight. (RNIB - Central London, UK)
9-12 March 2008: "Step Forward" - First International Art Festival for Handicapped Children, St.Petersburg (Russia)
10-12 March 2008: 2nd European Conference on Psychology and Visual Impairment, Huizen (The Netherlands)

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