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(ELECTRONIC MUSIC)

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Hello. My name is Pilar Orero.

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I'm wearing a beautiful necklace

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with lots of little beads
with really nice colors

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and I am in a big room because
I am in the lockdown of COVID-19.

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This is why
I can't welcome you to our lab

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and I have to tell you
with this little movie

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how accessibility is done

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in the European project called HELIOS

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So, HELIOS is a funded H2020 project.

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It started over a year ago

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and the ethos

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or the research
that we have on that project

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is on a social media

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and what we want to understand

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is how could we establish
a social media network

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taking into consideration proximity.

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The network has to be decentralized,

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so it’s a peer-to-peer network

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and that challenges isssues
to do with trust,

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with privacy,

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That’s really what
we are understanding

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and are setting out to do.

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Why accessibility or how accessibility
interacts with HELIOS?

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Well, because we are in Europe

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and one of the defining features
of Europe is diversity,

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the wealth of diversity
that we have in languages

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and cultures and history.

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But the other one is the search
for equal opportunities.

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I think that is one of
the definers of Europe.

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While the equal distribution
eutopia is there,

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there are many actions

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that the European Commission
or the European Parliament

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have done towards the search
for this equal opportunity of fairness

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to our society and to everybody
who lives in Europe.

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For that, the European Parliament

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in the council of
the 5th of July of 2006

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issued a directive.

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It’s called the directive of 2006/54,

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where there are
provisions for individuals

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for opportunities in education,
training, employment,

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career, language

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and the idea is
that there are no barriers

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on the basis of sex, race, religion,

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language or family situation.

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So we have decided that

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since we have to establish
a social network within in europe,

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we should take into consideration
these equal opportunities,

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this fairness,
this equal distribution concept.

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So we have integrated
accessibility from the very start.

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We have interrelated the idea
of a born accessible concept,

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so whatever we designed
has to be accessible for everyone

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and that in HELIOS is very much
reflected in the idea of the app,

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the interface
that end users will be accessing.

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Any network should be
accessible for all.

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If you want to know more
about the HELIOS project,

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you can go and consult the web page
that you can find here.

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I hope interesting for you.

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Thank you very much.