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The association is concerned to offer accessible transport solutions for VIP, but also to involve VIP in an active life through cultural and sporting activities. Regarding the accessibility of travel solutions, several projects were carried out, the most successful was Tandem Access.

The project Tandem Access implemented a navigation and orientation model inside the subway stations for the visually impaired users. It gave the user, through an application, notifications containing descriptive information aimed to help him to orient to and from the platforms and entrances of the metro system. This model contains a network of 1500 iBeacons installed inside the stations that communicate with the mobile phone through the Bluetooth connection. The platform is able to recognize the direction of movement of the user according to the order of the beacons with which the mobile device interacts, and also, at an intersection, it is able to notify him of all possible destinations and the direction to be followed in order to reach them.

Apart from these technology-based project, the association also runs cultural projects, with children from blind schools, consisting in workshops for theater, modeling, music, computer competitions in schools.

Lately there are actions on the part of civic education, knowledge of the rights of people with disabilities.

There are also run sports projects under the name Tandem Arena. A national tandem bike championships was implemented, it takes place every year. Visually impaired children are brought to a sport facility in Izvorani (near Bucharest) were they train swimming, cycling and athletics.