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Think Poland promotes the educational offer of Polish universities abroad, primarily through the „Think Poland” portal where people interested in studying in Poland may browse through the current offer of academic centres. Under the project we are planning to extend our service range, and create a new portal named POST PLUS, and targeted solely at people with disabilities of various kinds concerning their mobility other physical or sensory performance, such as sight defects. Our portal will be an intermediary helping people with disabilities to choose their: university courses, language courses and vocational training, accommodation, foreign travel insurance, apprenticeship and jobs, plus offering the preparation of recruitment, visa and travel documents.
The project costs will cover: the purchase of a license for new components of the POST PLUS system, the creation of the skeleton mobile application and of the web portal including a visa system; marketing and legal advice as regards customizing the system to the needs of the sensitive target group; development works to adapt the presently used licensed resources to the system needs and to include the needs of the target group; preparation of innovative technological solutions; result analysis of the solutions under testing by a research unit, and system validation.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project was to create a POST PLUS service product. The innovation of this project was the implementation of the activities leading to the development and introduction to the market a method of offering educational services (and derivatives) aimed exclusively at a sensitive social group. The functionalities of the innovative system, its features and specifications were designed exclusively for the needs of people from a vulnerable group.
POST PLUS is dedicated exclusively to people with different types of disabilities: the visually impaired, the blind, people with mobility impairments; who are excluded from access to information due to special needs. The developed product provides people who are at
risk of being marginalised or discriminated against because of their disability or reduced level of fitness due to illness,with significant improvements in the way services are selected (ease and speed of delivery, i.e. in the way they interact with customers and service providers).
The output of this project is creating a POST PLUS service product. The activities included two tasks: development of the POST PLUS platform and implementation of the POST PLUS platform. As part of the tasks implemented: complementing the new analytical and research system by purchasing components in the licence system, construction of the POST PLUS mobile application structure in a licence model, construction of the structure of the POST PLUS web portal in a licence model together with the visa system. As part of the task, a software specialist was hired under Software specialist, who was responsible for modernization and adaptation of modules owned by the Applicant. The system of services supporting the selection of foreign education was received. The following has also been carried out development studies by a Research and Development Unit. The modification of the POST PLUS system with validation was also realized. The beneficiary also decided to cover from its own funds the implementation of the following costs
related to the project: Strategic marketing consulting; Language translation of the content available on the POST PLUS portal; Conference organization - Think Nord conference organized through the ClickMeeting portal on 07.12.2022 and participation in ICEF Berlin in November 2023; Adaptation of the POST PLUS system to meet the needs of the vulnerable group. During the project the study trips also took place – two trips to Oslo (Norway) and one to Riga (Latvia).
The POST PLUS system was implemented. A final conference was also held at the end of the project.
POST PLUS is dedicated exclusively to people with different types of disabilities: the visually impaired, the blind, people with mobility impairments, who are excluded from access to information due to special needs. One of the main roles in the process of social activation of people with disabilities and preparing them for future employment and leading an independent life is - education. A key starting point is access to information. One of the ways solution to offering educational services to people with special needs is to use channels of an electronic nature. A new method of offering educational (and related) services is to development and implementation of the POST PLUS system, which consists of: IT infrastructure, development studies aimed at identifying the needs of the target group, diagnosis of the quality and functionality of the side of the system''s user interface.
POST PLUS system makes it possible to extend the functions of offering of services with dynamic pricing, shopping cart, analysis of consumer behaviour, remote control and reconfiguration. The mentioned functionalities are not available in such a compatible and comprehensive. The use of POST PLUS reduces the cost of operation and service, enables a relationship with the consumer through interaction, personalization, marketing mechanisms. The innovative product/service is characterized by: a new level of cooperation with the customer, a new way of service delivery, and the application of new technologies.