Happy holidays from the iDEM team! ✨

🤝Thank you for being following our work

We are excited to see iDEM keep growing during its last year!💠

🗓️International Day of Persons with Disabilities

1 y 4 adults in the EU might experience exclusion from public life due to disabilty.

Let's strive to make all aspects of life inclusive

Learn more about how iDEM is working to make information accessible 👉 idemproject.eu/en

#HorizonEU #IDPD

We are celebrating our first iDEM event! ✨

You can find the whole presentation in Spanish here 👉 idemproject.eu/es/resources

Thank you to all attendees and we hope to see more of you very soon!

#HorizonEU

Join us on WEL Project International Event online - Easy Audios for Cultural Visits and Easy Language, where @hsaggion.bsky.social iDEM Coordinator, will be presenting alongside our sister projects.

🗓️20 November 2025

Register for free👉https://webs.uab.cat/wel/en/international-event/

#HorizonEU

📘The European Disability Forum has released an updated version of its Guide on the EU AI Act!

Discover how your organisation can contribute to implementation and advocate for inclusive AI ⤵️
🔗 lnkd.in/eK6jgVA9

#HorizonEU #AccesstoInformation #DeliberativeDemocracy #AI

📣 iDEM at Smart Cities World Congress today!

@hsaggion.bsky.social and Stefan Bott have been presenting the iDEM App prototype since 14:00 at stall F64.

Did you have a chance to stop by?

You can also check out our other events in our website 👉 lnkd.in/dUV5jqAc

#SCEWC25

#HorizonEU

🗓️iDEM event!

@hsaggion.bsky.social will be presenting iDEM next month at the WEL Project International Event.

The event will be held online.

Registration to the online event and more information here 👉 lnkd.in/d6tttFhj

#HorizonEU #AI #NLP #LanguageSimplification

iDEM at #SmartCityWorldExpo 🗓️

If you are interested in language simplification and inclusive deliberative processes we will wait for you at:

🔹 Fira de Barcelona Gran Via
🔹 From 14:00 to 17:00
🔹 At stall F64 (Hall 3)

More information here 👉 www.smartcityexpo.com

#XarxaAccessCat #NLP #HorizonEU

International Day of Older Persons!🌍

As Julia Wadoux said in an #iDEMInterview:
The heterogeneity of older people reflects the heterogeneity of the population🤝

Check out Julia's interview 👉 lnkd.in/dmxhWVEq

#HorizonEU #DayOfOlderPersons

Today is #AccessToInfoDay🌍

In #iDEM, we believe accessibility to information is vital to healthy deliberative processes.

To celebrate this day, we’re sharing iDEM’s mini-guide, available in 4 languages, with accessible PDFs.

Check it out👉 idemproject.eu/en/resources

#HorizonEU

🎉 Celebrating the International Day of Democracy 🤝

📣 Today we want to draw attention to those excluded from democratic processes.

🤝We reinforce this with @jlmarti.bsky.social in an interview for iDEM in 2024.

#InternationalDemocracyDay #HorizonEU #DeliberativeDemocracyjlmarti.bsky.social

iDEM event! ✨

"I will describe the current status of our iDEM mobile app, which will make our technology available as a service"

- Horacio Saggion at CLEF 2025 SimpleText 🎤

Read more 👉 simpletext-project.com/2025/program

#HorizonEU #nlp #TextSimplification #CLEF2025SimpleText

You can now access iDEM Expert!✨

iDEM Expert is an interactive tool built on ChatGPT. It uses a knowledge base from iDEM's research to make democratic participation simpler

You can try it here👉 lnkd.in/d8w5Wu4Z

You can also read more about how it works here👉 lnkd.in/dFzRXZ4k

#HorizonEU #NLP #AI

Democracy Made Easy: Simplifying Complex Topics to Enable Democratic Participation Nouran Khallaf, Stefan Bott, Carlo Eugeni, John O’Flaherty, Serge Sharoff, Horacio Saggion. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Easy and Plain Language in Institutional Cont...

New iDEM publication! ✨

Read iDEM's latest publication

Democracy Made Easy: Simplifying Complex Topics to Enable Democratic Participation.

Find it here 👉 aclanthology.org/2025.aielpl-...

#HorizonEU #NLP #AI #LanguageSimplification #DemocraticDeliberation

iDEM News!✨

Looking for something to read over the summer?

In the spirit of transparency and knowledge sharing, European projects share documents showing their progress, results, and impact.

These are called public deliverables. You can now find iDEM's here 👉 lnkd.in/dJtHNZuG

#HorizonEU #AI #NLP

🙋‍♀️Interested in a recap?
🔹Read our publications on the use of #NLP and #LLMs in language simplification here 👉 lnkd.in/dUk6nTDu
🔹The iDEM researchers have developed a novel catalan dataset that is being used to train our iDEM app in text simplification👉 lnkd.in/dtJTeF8h

Read more ⤵️
lnkd.in/dq32q_S9

iDEM interview 📣

This week we have the pleasure of sharing with you our latest iDEM interview with Maurizio Borgo, National Authority for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Italy.

Read the full interview here 👉 lnkd.in/gTapBF72

#HorizonEU #Inclusion #NLP #AI

Looking for a quick read these summer days? ✨

Read our latest iDEM interview! 📲

We interviewed Marta Villanueva Cendan, Councillor for Health, People with Disabilities, and the Strategy against Loneliness at the Barcelona City Council. 🤝

Read it here 👉 lnkd.in/dJhn-Fxw

#HorizonEU

Get to know the iDEM partners! 🤝

iDEM is made up of researchers and experts from a variety of sectors accross Europe.

Get to know them all on our website 👉 idemproject.eu/en/who-we-are

New iDEM interview! ✨

🎙️ Dr. Stefanie Türk, from our partner Inspire Foundation (Malta) joined us in our latest iDEM interview to discuss inclusiVe research methodologies in iDEM's upcoming Use Case.

Click here for the audio and written versions of the interview ⤵️
lnkd.in/dugmfjEu

#HorizonEU #NLP

New publication✨

📣If you are interested in text simplification and information accessibility, we want to share with you a paper presenting a new dataset designed for Spanish speakers with visual impairments 👉 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...

#HorizonEU

We just sent out our June Newsletter! 📣

The iDEM newsletter is a rundown of the project's news and activities. All in the same place and sent to you directly! 📲

Make sure to subscribe in the footer of the iDEM website 👉 idemproject.eu/en

iDEM news! ✨

Almudena Rascón Alcaina, one of our Spanish partners, presented #iDEM in a training session regarding assistive technologies for people with disabilities.

She presented our project in a session titled 'The social and political participation of persons with disabilities'.👏

#HorizonEU

iDEM member Carlo Eugeni took part in an event by the UNDESA Division for Inclusive Social Development: Legal Access for Everyone: Plain Language, Easy Read & AI.👏

He spoke of the different accessibility formats and their role in making court reports fair for all.

#HorizonEU #NLP #Accessibility

AccessTalks. Seminar 1. YouTube video by Transmedia Catalonia

iDEM News! ✨

Our project was presented by @hsaggion.bsky.social at the Access Talks seminar series.

He joined fellow experts to share insights regarding accessibility and AI.

You can find the seminar here 👉https://youtu.be/mSghp7j17D4?si=Qj4G8UWxPVYbluaE

#HorizonEU #GAAD2025 #Accessibility #NLP

Our mini guide for public administrations is available now!📣

Check it out to learn more about the exclusion caused by language barriers.

You will also find resources and examples to implement inclusion. 🤝

Read it here 👉 lnkd.in/dRpakWzy

#HorizonEU #Democracy #Inclusion #AI #NLP

iDEM news! ✨

Last week, on May 15th we celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).

To commemorate this day, @hsaggion.bsky.social presented the iDEM project at AccessTalks webinar.

Find out more in our website 👉 idemproject.eu/en/news/post...

#Accessibility #NLP #AI #Democracy

Image of the iDEM partners at Leeds.

iDEM update!✨

Last week the iDEM project travelled to Leeds for a consortium meeting.

During two days at the University of Leeds, the iDEM members discussed the project's progress and its next steps.

#HorizonEU #inclusion #democraticparticipation #deliberativedemocracy #NLP

New iDEM interview!🔔

We are really happy to share with you our conversation with David Bondia, Ombudsman of Barcelona.

"The right to participation is part of our concept of a diverse city."

Read the interview here 👉 lnkd.in/dJTjHSFR

#HorizonEU #Inclusion @sindicdegreugescat.bsky.social

🗓️On May 25 and 26, Italy will hold elections for mayors and municipal councils in many regions.

There will also be a vote on work and citizenship referendums on June 8 and 9. 🤝

ANFFAS and Action Aid Italia are working with iDEM to promote democratic inclusion in Italy.

#HorizonEU #NLP #AI