Courses and conferences

Among its goals, the Robert Hollman Foundation nurtures acommitment to share and make available to professionals and territories its knowledge and expertise gained from 45 years of clinical work in the field of childhood visual impairment.

Each year it conducts online and in-person training and in-depth courses at its two Centers for hundreds of students and professionals interested in the world of low vision and blindness.

In addition, it collaborates with Universities, Professional Associations and Orders, Associations, and Sociomedical Companies within numerous courses, through integrative teaching activity modules and workshops conducted directly by FRH professionals, such as for the support qualification courses of the Universities of Padova and Ferrara.

In recent years since 2023, there has been an intensification of activities that have helped train thousands of students and professionals from all over Italy, conducting two editions of the basic course “The Comprehensive Approach to the Child with Visual Impairment,” and conducting academic courses and courses offered by other organizations and invited lectures.

In addition, the Foundation has chosen to focus its educational efforts on the implementation of the 10th ICEVI-Europe International Conference, which was held in Padova May 15-17, 2025 and attracted more than 300 professionals from different disciplines and from 130 institutions and organizations from 37 countries around the world. The Conference program was complemented by the Padova SensoriAbile Days program open to all citizenship to promote the inclusion of people with visual impairment through multisensory encounters and experiences.

Even in the type of training provided, the Foundation reproduces its particular working method, which revolves around the synergistic contributions of multidisciplinary teams that care for the child with visual impairment and his or her family throughout the entire caregiving process. Making use, therefore, of all the professional figures necessary to ensure the best development for the blind or visually impaired child, the training is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach in the presentation of theoretical and practical content and in the structuring of the proposed training courses.

In addition, when possible, the theoretical part is to be integrated with a more properly experiential one since the latter, through personal involvement, can enable each participant to understand and process the content more effectively, arriving at a new and more informed professional perspective on visual impairment.