Action4Vision
The project has been thought to answer to needs of sanitarian and social taking over of populations suffering of visual disabilities in cross-border territories. In particular, users’ associations and project partners have underline two main problematics: 
• The remoteness of people of visual tests programs and re-education services.
• The weak density of specialised services in rural mountain areas.
The project has 6 objectives: 
1. Bring an answer of proximity un a medical desert and allow the access to ophthalmologic cares. 
2. Give the possibility to do an early ophthalmological test in order to avoid taking over costs, bigger on the long term. 
3. Contribute to the well-being in remoted territories through the development of social and cultural activities.
4. Contribute to the maintenance of populations of all ages in cross-border territories.
5. Raising awareness of Public Health policy institutions on the importance of proximity services. 
6. Purpose a model of decompartmentalized cooperation to a multidisciplinary health, social and environmental taking over based on WHO (World Health Organisation) recommendations and purpose a more economic model of intervention. 
The project is organized over 4 thematic activities: 
1. The creation of a cross-border epidemic observatory on visual health.
2. Develop new skills thorough the meeting of professionals of sanitarian, social, and medico-social sector and create a common procedure of intervention, in grade to impact national process in force.
3. The experimentation of new proximity services of sanitarian taking over.
4. The organisation of a panel of activities focused on promotion and the raising of awareness toward visual health.