IMC17 - International Mobility Conference

Online conference for IMC17: April 23-25 2021. We look forward to welcoming you to join us at this exciting event!

The International Mobility Conference (IMC) Executive Committee is excited to welcome practitioners, researchers, and associated professionals in the field of orientation and mobility (O&M) to to a digital ONLINE Conference for IMC17, 23–25 April 2021.

As a registered delegate you will be able to visit the conference in a recorded version until 9^th of May.

ACVREP credits can only be obtained during the live conference 23-25^th of April.

The vision of IMC is to further the level of expertise for mobility instructors through an international exchange of ideas and information. In pursuit of this vision, the scope of the conference will encompass the global community addressing issues affecting the mobility of those with a visual impairment throughout the world. This will include mobility practitioners (teachers, O&M Instructors and Guide Dog Instructors), service users, researchers and other workers or professionals from any discipline directly or indirectly involved in mobility issues, such as traffic engineers, accessibility advisors, and product developers.

Each IMC conference provides us the opportunity to renew friendships and to make new friends from around the world, and to celebrate our dedication to providing safe and efficient travel to those with visual impairments.

We look forward to welcoming you as presenters and participants to IMC17.

Eileen Siffermann, Chair
IMC Executive Committee

In Sweden we have a long tradition of striving for equality. Amongst other things this involves focusing on how people with impairment can have the best opportunities to participate in our society. For this reason the theme “Challenges for an inclusive society” has been chosen for the conference. With this theme we wish to focus on identifying what needs to be done on a worldwide basis in order to achieve an inclusive society with regard to orientation and mobility, based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The conference will build on interdisciplinary professional and academic work. Here we want to bring together researchers, practitioners and people with visual impairment and blindness in order to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and collaboration across different perspectives on orientation and mobility (O&M).

We want to extend our shared knowledge in the field of O&M in a broad sense; being challenged by new research results, together discuss new interpretations of the function of O&M for living a healthy life, and gain new insights into designing rehabilitation initiatives and programs. Bringing together researchers and professionals from a wide range of disciplines guarantees that the complexity of O&M in daily life will be illuminated in all its facets and dimensions. We want to challenge you all to further broaden the knowledge base for our profession.

See you soon in a digital format!

Inger Berndtsson
Chair, the Local Organizing Committee