Students with sight problems will be able to be taught easier using advanced technologies. The equipment is at the first assistance center for disabled students called “Fara bariere” (No Barriers), inaugurated Tuesday at the Moldova State University (USM). Deputy president of the Society of the Blind from Moldova Larisa Celan says the center will enhance the access to university education to people with sight problems. The center will help the blind adapt to technologies, will assist them in drafting their lessons schedule, will consult them on opportunities to study abroad, will organize meetings with students, teachers, tutors, Info-Prim Neo has learnt from Larisa Celan. The equipment will also be used to transform studying material into audio lessons or to put it in the Braille writing. The assistance center is a project implemented by USM, the Karlsruhe University from Germany, the Commenius University from Slovakia and the Society of the Blind from Moldova and it was opened wirth the financial support of the European Commission. It is located in the USM. Some 9,000 people with sight problems are recorded in Moldova now, 40 % of them being blind. 30 % of them are young. Over 500 people with sight problems study in the Moldovan universities.