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Counseling & Training

It is our aim to counsel people with special needs regarding AAC and Assistive Technology.
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Assistive Technology & Finance

Together we are searching for the best solution and also give support regarding financial questions.
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Research & Development

We are focusing on application-orientated development to help people to achieve a higher degree of autonomy. 
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LIFEtool - computer aided communication

LIFEtool is a non-profit organisation and is located in Linz/Austria. We are offering:

  • Counseling & training: professional, comprehensive and free from commercial interest consultations and appropriate products
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
  • Development of educational and switch accessible software programs and apps as well as computer input devices like the awarded IntegraMouse Plus for children, adolescents, adults and elderly with disabilities as well as their relatives, educators and therapists
  • R&D partnerships with universities, organisations, bodies, corporates and propagators

 

This is our website in English where you will find basic information about LIFEtool and detailed information on our R&D projects.


Handing over the keys at LIFEtool

Photo: Handing over the keys at LIFEtool

Stefan Marchewa takes over as LIFEtool CEO - David Hofer remains until the end of 2023

As of September 2023, Stefan Marchewa will take over the position of Managing Director, while  David Hofer will hand over the business until the end of the year.

Under the leadership of David Hofer, LIFEtool has developed into a significant institution in the field of Computer Aided Communication and Assistive Computer Technologies. His commitment and the expertise of the LIFEtool team have made it possible to provide people in Austria and around the world with innovative solutions and contribute to improving their quality of life. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to David Hofer for his 20 years of dedication and contribution to the success of LIFEtool.

Welcome to LIFEtool

Stefan Marchewa brings to his role as Managing Director of the LIFEtool companies an impressive career at Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen. He has held management positions since 2000, with a focus on work with the disabled and elderly, as well as therapy. His extensive know-how in quality management will be a valuable asset to LIFEtool. In addition, he has served as Managing Director of Diakoniewerk in Vienna since 2022, where, among other things, he has helped shape the development of LIFEtool Beratungsstelle Wien as well as bearing responsibility for services in the areas of people in old age, people with disabilities and students.

Seamless handover

The transition will be seamless, as David Hofer will remain as strategic advisor for the LIFEtool companies and as managing director under commercial law for LIFEtool Solutions GmbH until the end of the year. This continuity ensures that David Hofer's extensive knowledge and experience will flow into the future direction of LIFEtool.

The coming months therefore mark not only a transition, but also a new beginning. Together with Stefan Marchewa, we will work to continue and develop the vision of LIFEtool to best support people with AAC and AT needs.

Successful team achievement
This milestone in LIFEtool's corporate development would not have been possible without the dedicated cooperation of the LIFEtool team. The outgoing Managing Director emphasises how much everyone at LIFEtool has contributed with expertise, dedication and personal commitment to successfully realising LIFEtool's mission of adapting technology to people.

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Stefan Marchewa
"I am delighted to be responsible, together with a competent team, for a company that has set itself the goal of giving people a voice through augmentative and alternative communication and assistive technologies. This brings us one step closer to the goal of an inclusive society. I am committed to ensuring that people without active or with severely limited spoken language have opportunities and possibilities to discover and develop their individual form of communication. What most of us take for granted - to communicate in everyday life, to communicate and to communicate - must also be possible for people with limited forms of communication. Together with David Hofer, whom I would like to thank not only for his years of commitment, but also for his willingness to work with us in the coming months, we will shape the transition well together."

David Hofer

"It is a matter close to my heart that in the interest of LIFEtool employees and partners all information that is important for the new managing director is handed over without any gaps. I have come to appreciate Stefan Marchewa as a professionally skilled and humanly fine personality. We look back on a common LIFEtool research work in the field of information and communication technology for senior people and had always worked together as equals in our functions. Finally, I am looking forward to using the remaining weeks and months for THANKING especially from the outstanding LIFEtool team and the supporters and friends of LIFEtool."

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