This is a download page for the manuals that can be provided to trainers and trainees when a new training course is organised. The manuals consist of several types of information: the presentation slides, a brief textual description of each topic, a longer description of some of the topics, and a number of background materials.
Trainer/Trainee Manuals for User Representatives
The manuals for user reprentatives consists of the following parts:
- General Introduction: a descripton of the Stand4All project, the goal of the project, the objectives of the training, and short descriptions of the training method and its outcome.
- Background and Motivation: this addresses the question why it is important to promote the user perspective in standardisation. This section also discusses policy and demographic aspects.
- Information on Standardisation: this section discusses what standards are, how standards are developed, and why consumer involvement is important.
- User Aspects / Priorities in Standardisation: this section discusses how users can contribute to standardisation, what practical issues need to be resolved, which skills are needed, what barriers exist to user participation, and how they can be resolved. It also introduces the USEM concept, an ideal model for end-user participation in standardisation.
- User participation in standardisation; How to use Guide 6 in the standardisation process? This section introduces trainees to CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 and includes a group assignment.
- Summary and Exercises: this section is a bridge between the previous sections (the first training day) and the next ones. It summarises the topics covered on the first day, discusses the skills that are needed for participation in the standardisation process and provides exercises related to these skills.
- Role-play or interactive session: this section contains a role-play activity in which user representatives and committee members (the other trainees, see below) participate together. The topic of the role-play is the revision of the European standard EN 81-70 “Accessibility to lifts for persons including persons with disability”.
- Further Implementation: this topic discusses what trainers and trainees can do with the knowledge and skills acquired during the training. What are the standardisation projects in which trainers and trainees could participate?
- Additional materials include:
- CEN/CENELEC Guide 6, with the tables from Clause 7
- extracts from “Hands on Standardization”, a publication by CEN;
- “Involving People with Disabilities in the Standardisation Process” by John Gill, a publication by the COST219ter project.
Download the Trainer Manual for End Users (PDF file, 5.2 megabyte), Trainee Manual for End Users (PDF file, 4.1 megabyte).
Trainer/Trainee Manuals for Committee Members in Standardisation
The manuals for committee members consists of the following parts:
- General Introduction: a descripton of the Stand4All project, the goal of the project, the objectives of the training, and short descriptions of the training method and its outcome.
- Background and Motivation: this addresses the question why it is important to promote the user perspective in standardisation. This section also discusses policy and demographic aspects.
- User participation in standardisation; How to use Guide 6 in the standardisation process? This section introduces the USEM concept and introduces trainees to CEN/CENELEC Guide 6. The topic includes a group assignment.
- Role-play or interactive session: this section contains a role-play activity in which committee members and user representatives (the other trainees, see above) participate together. The topic of the role-play is the revision of the European standard EN 81-70 “Accessibility to lifts for persons including persons with disability”.
- Further Implementation: this topic discusses what trainers and trainees can do with the knowledge and skills acquired during the training. What are the standardisation projects in which trainers and trainees could participate?
- Additional materials include:
- CEN/CENELEC Guide 6, with the tables from Clause 7
- extracts from “Hands on Standardization”, a publication by CEN;
- “Involving People with Disabilities in the Standardisation Process” by John Gill, a publication by the COST219ter project.
Download the Trainer Manual for Committee Members in Standardisation (PDF file, 4.2 megabyte), Trainee Manual for Committee Members in Standardisation (PDF file, 3.5 megabyte).