Viviane Redding EU Vicepresidentand Adam Kósa, MEP One million deaf sign language users in Europe were the target audience of this pilot project started by dám Kósa and Werner Kuhn. This project’s objective is to create a service concept and, later, a technology...
Left to right: Ms Dovilé Juodkaité, President of the Lithuanian National Forum of the Disabled; Mr Yannis Vardakastanis, EDF President; Ms Algimanta Pabedinskiene, Minister of Social Security and Labour of Lithuania. This past weekend, the European Disability Forum...
Federacion Española de Sordoceguera (Deafblind Spanish Federation) launched today its brand new fund raising campaign in Barcelona, Spain. This campaign aims to increase public awareness of deafblindness as a distinct impairment, to push for appropriate facilities...
The European Platform on Deafness, Hard of Hearing, and Deafblindness decided to hold a discussion about the Board’s recent advancements at the European Disability Forum on June 19, 2013. The primary goal of the meeting, excluding the EDF election, was to...
The secretariat: Bronte and Elvira, and President: Gill Morbey The DbI Board got together the day before the 8th Deafblind European Conference to talk about a range of issues pertaining to its internal governance and ongoing initiatives. In her presentation to the...
On the 24th of August EDbN was able to explain its 2012-2014 working plan at the recent 8th Deafblind European Conference meeting at Lille, France, where it was finally approved. Its proposal for the rest of 2013 and the first half of the following year consist of...
