On the occasion of the European Day for people with disabilities (3 December) the European Commission announced that Gothenburg is the winner of the Access City Award 2014. The dedication of Gothenburg to enhancing access to employment, housing, and transportation is...
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...
