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Networking for european EDbN projects on deafblindness
The European Deafblind Network is reactivating its work aiming to advocate for deafblind people rights. Currently we are building relations with several members of the European Parliament and working on new projects that include deafblindness within the Strategy for...
WAI-Coop open meeting 7 march 2023
From 2 pm to 4pm CET (Brussels time) Online. Zoom The Web Accessibility intiative Communities of practice (WAI-CooP)project is organising a new open meeting on 7 March. This event will focus on the feedback mechanism and complaints procedure of the Web Accessibility...
Anniversary Of the Istanbul Conventions
Today marks the anniversary of opening for signature of the Istanbul Convention. The Istanbul Convention is an international treaty to help tackle violence against women and girls. It is very important for women and girls with disabilities as, on average, they are 2...
A proposal for a Deafblindness ICF Core Set development
Deafblind International and EDbN are currently working on the second phase of the ICF project (Qualitative Study) with organizations from 6 WHO regions. This would help researchers detecting meaningful concepts for future planning and monitoring deafblindness...
In development an international project about defblindness
International universities and non-profit organizations are carrying out a broad study that will develop a specific ICF Core Sets for deafblindnessDeafblind International is carrying out an international study, led by the European Deafblind Network, that wants to...
EDbN in the ITU Evaluation Committee for an Accessible Europe
The last 24 and 25 of October there was the Regional Competition for an Accessible Europe on the ITU building in Geneva with the collaboration of Agenzija Sapport and Zero Project. A group of IT and sensory loss experts got together in the meeting as the Evaluation...
Platform meeting in Brussels with special guest Mher Hakobyan EDF officer
Platform meeting in Brussels with special guest Mher Hakobyan EDF officerOn the last 30th of October, the whole Platform got together to discuss some very important things that were not solved at the last meeting in March. The meeting took place in the Delegation of...
We demand accesible european elections 2019
Open letter to the EU institutions The European Deafblind Network (EDbN), we call on the EU political leaders to ensure that persons with disabilities can meaningfully enjoy their right to vote and to stand for election. Voting is not an option, it is a right. If you...
European Deafblind Day
April 1st, the day the European Parliament settled as the most remarkable date for the European Deafblind Community2004 was an unprecedented great year for the European Deafblind Community. On April 1st, the European Parliament formally adopted a historic written...
Conference at European Parliament about deafblindness “Alone we can do so little, toghether we can do so much”
The Conference/Deafblind Awareness Day “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much”, which will take place on June 5th 2018 from 12.30 am till 14.30 pm, at European Parliament, Brussels.This, 2018 is the year in which world celebrates deafblindness (on the...
CHARGE Congress 2018
The CHARGE Association, the CRESAM, the NECKER’s Hospital medical experts, the CESSA and the ANPSA propose this to families and information and exchange conference professionals, in order to help all those who surround the CHARGE children to better meet their needs....
MOU between EDBN and EDBU
Mabel Asensi, a deafblind person, Sonja Tarczay, EDbU chair and Ricard López, EDbN chairDuring the 9th DbI European conference on deafblindness, the chair of the EDBN, Ricard López, called several network meetings that were really successful. One of those meetings was...
EDBN meets northern countries parents associations
The chair of the EDBN, Ricard Lopez, has made the most of his time in the Aalborg conference. During the four days of the conference he has called three very successful networking meetings. In the first meeting, Mr. Lopez, met with some parents of deafblind children...
Touch of Closeness — Maintaining Social Connectedness
From the 5th until the 8th of September 2017 the 9th Deafblind International European conference on Deafblindness was held in Aalborg, Denmark. More than five hundred people related with deafblindness actively participated in talks, workshops and networking meetings...
The Alliance for the World Universal Accessibility Day has been created
This coalition, whose object is to promote universal accessibility, presented last week the agreement on setting up an alliance at the Auditorium 1899 in The Camp Nou. Different renowned and experienced people attended the celebration during the signing ceremony. The...
INFO DAY European Training Certification in Culture, Media, and ICT Accessibility
The ERASMUS+ project, ACT and ADLAB PRO organized a Info Day in Brussels on April 28th. The aim of this event was to inform their responsibles in regards to the implementation of accessibility in the Media Directive AVMSD and the European Accessibility Law. Various...
Workshop on Accessibility of Products and Services at European Commission
The objective of this workshop was to present the concrete aspects of accessibility and the business case for providing accessible products and services. The workshop reflected the state of the art of accessibility legislation, policies and products and services in...
Finnish Professionals visit Catalonia to observe High-Quality Services
The local organization working on the deafblindness field APSOCECAT hosted the exchange program concerning good practice in the world of disability Representatives of Finnish disability agencies visited Catalonia with the objective of getting to know the work method...
EDbN present at the International Conference of Deafblindness in Moscow
Challenges of the deaf-blind: experience, objectives, perspectives”, the International Conference held a meeting of the most, distinctive, important representatives of the deafblind. The aim of the conference was to bring together the best practices of work with the...
WE CAN BE CONNECTED The European Deafblind Equipment Distribution Program
Communication is essential for staying healthy, holding a job, managing a household and participating in the community March 3, 2015 Modern technology has vastly expanded the way most people communicate through voice, data and video services. But for people who have...
EDF will present the priorities of the Disability Movement to the UN Committee
This Thursday 2 April, the disability movement will be at Geneva to meet the UN Committee and discuss its concerns on how the EU implements the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). The EU has ratified the UN Convention in 2010 making it...
Time for Disability Development!
Commissioner Mimica commits to support disability-inclusive development within the EU Representatives of the European Disability Forum (EDF) and of the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) met in Brussels with European Commissioner for...
Discrimination of Deafblindness is expounded to the European Commission
The Board of the European Deafblind Network (EDbN) goes to Brussels to meet the European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Marianne Thyssen – March 4, 2015 The discriminatory situation of the deafblind people in Europe was one of the main issues of the...
MEPs supporting Deafblindness
Once the ‘European Deafblind Indicators’ project was completed, EDbN presented the results and the objectives of this project to all the Members of The European Parliament (MEPs) who in the last legislature were part of the Disability Intergroup. From the very...
European Deafblind Indicators Project Results
The ‘European Deafblind Indicators project website’ project was developed from September 2012 to September 2014 by nine deafblind organizations from eight EU Member States. All of the individual members of the project group are part of the European Deafblind Network...
Red and White Campaign
We are currently working on another project concerning deafblind transport and movement in public spaces, streets and crossings: the red and white cane. This is a white cane with red stripes of 100mm. The deafblind people are using white sticks, which indicates a...
Challenge for Visibility: The Way of Saint James
The Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago) is a spiritual journey that pilgrims of all backgrounds have traversed for over a thousand years. Pilgrims walk the Way for various reasons: some to seed penance, others enlightenment, others for a sense of adventure. Several...
80 Million Persons call for Accessible Information & Communication Technologies
As a member of the EDF Board, the EDbN representative, Ricard López, actively attended the meeting representing almost 3 million persons with Deafblindness The disability movement in Europe gathered this weekend in Jurmala, Latvia for EDF’s Board meeting. Before the...
Sanja Tarczay, president of EDbU, awarded with The Order of the Croatian Star
Zagreb, Croatia The President of the Republic of Croatia annually honours meritorious individuals, Croatian and foreign nationals, organizations and legal entities with decorations and awards for their outstanding achievements, extraordinary contributions and true...
Meeting with Vicepresident of the Committee of Employment and Social Affairs
On the 20th of January a meeting was held in the European Parliament between Ms Ulvskog, vice-president of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament, Javi López, Spanish MEP, Jutta Steinruck, German MEP, and Ricard López, president of...
EDbN accredited to have access rights to the European Parliament
The European Deafblind Network (EDbN) has recently received the confirmation of the access rights to the European Parliament premises. The accredited status will allow our representatives of Deafblindness greater networking opportunities to contact all the members of...
European Conference on Deafblindness in Barcelona
The European Deafblind Indicators Project will finish with an open day conference on June 20th After two years working on the European Deafblind Project, for Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission, the project is getting to an end. The last meeting...
The European Parliament endorses EDF Manifesto’s Key Priorities
On 11 February 2014, EDF presented its manifesto on the EU elections 2014 at the European Parliament. The event was organised in cooperation with the European Parliament Disability Intergroup and gathered a lot of MEPs; all of them expressed their full endorsement to...
European Commission announces Access City Award Winner 2014 — GOTHENBURG!
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. Gothenburg’s commitment to increasing accessibility to transport, housing, work and employment...
European Union real-time sign language application by Adam Kósa MEP and Werner Kuhn MEP
Viviane Redding EU Vicepresidentand Adam Kósa, MEPThis pilot project established by Ádám Kósa MEP and Werner Kuhn MEP aimed at easing the lives of one million deaf sign language users in Europe. The goal of this project is to develop a service concept and later a...
The disability movement calls for an inclusive sustainable development
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. The European Disability Forum met this weekend in...
FESOCE new Deafblind Campaign
Federacion Española de Sordoceguera (Deafblind Spanish Federation) launched today its brand new fund raising campaign in Barcelona, Spain. This campaign aims to promote the awareness of deafblind as a unique disability, to influence for suitable facilities around the...
European Platform Meeting
The 19th of June 2013 was the date chosen by the European Platform on Deafness, Hard of Hearing, and Deafblindness to debate the Board´s current progresses within the European Disability Forum. Discussing the important details concerning the latest developments of the...
Deafblind International Board Meeting
The secretariat: Bronte and Elvira, and President: Gill Morbey DbI Board met the day before the start of the 8th Deafblind European Conference to discuss a serious of aspects concerning its structure and projects. Gillian Mobey, DbI President, explain all those...
EDbn 2013 General Assembly
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...
Deafblind International Lille´s Summit
The past 24th until the 28th of August, Deafblind International organized a conference at Lille, France, which served congenital deafblindness and acquired deafblindness, scientists and other participants to discuss several subjects, share experiences and participated...
Deafblind Summer Camp 2013 at Cambrils
EDbn took active part in the latest Deafblind Summer Camp for persons who have a significant hearing and vision loss, celebrated in Cambrils, Catalonia, and organized by Deafblind Spanish Federation (FESOCE). The camp was held on the first days of September and the...
European Indicators for Deafblind Project Meeting
The celebration of the European Deafblind Conference last 24th of August in Lille, France, was the ideal setting to present the European Indicators for Deafblind Project. With the attendance of 21 members of 7 different countries (France and Slovakia were not...
2013 Deafblind Awareness International Week
Once again FESOCE celebrated the Deafblind Awarness International Week simultaneously with the Helen Keller Foundation Deafblind Awareness Week. In June 1984 former United States of America President Ronald Reagan recognized Deafblind as a disability. Every year since...
EDbN General Assembly Meeting
In the upcoming Deafblind Conference to be celebrated in Lille, France; EDbN will organize its first General Assembly in more than 10 years to explain all our members the objectives we pursue, our working methods and to exchange opinions. Ricard López, EDbN president...
8th European International Deafblind Conference
The Deafblind International Conference, entitled “Identities and changes – Commonalities across deafblindness – Learning from each other” will tackle the main challenges deafblind individuals, their families and the professionals who work with them, face along their...
The Green Meridian Challenge — High Endurance Runners and Deafblind
Fort the first time one of the stages of this tough dare crossed Catalonia. They run from Coll de Pal ski resort in the middle of the Pyrenees mountain range to the Mediterranean coastal town of Masnou. The adventure took place from the 14th to the 16th of June and...
Deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind people join the board of directors of the European Disability Forum (EDF)
The general yearly Meeting of the European Disability Forum (EDF) took place on the 25th and 26th May in Athens, with the participation of the member organizations representatives from whole Europe. EDbN was present there as member of EDF. One of the points appearing...
Deafblindness and the loss of autonomy
The international press has been shaken by the recent news regarding a case of euthanasia applied to two brothers in Belgium. According to information available, the Verbessem twins, deaf since birth, were diagnosed with a degenerative ocular disease that would...
European Platform of Deafness, Hard of Hearing and Deafblindness first conference
The European Platform of Deafness, Hard of Hearing and Deafblindness announces its first conference, Mind The Data Gap! Lack of statistics for an effective EU inclusion strategy?! It will be held this Thursday 15 of November at the Representation of the free state of...
PEGGY FREEMAN one of the great ‘trooper’ from the early days of Deafblindness passed away
Peggy Freeman, MBE, sadly passed away in a Nottingham hospital over the weekend, following a short illness. Aged 94, Peggy was one of the parents who co-founded the National Deafblind and Rubella Association in 1955, the organisation which later became the charity...
Mind the Data Gap! Brussels 15 november 2012. 1st. Joint Conference of the European Platform of Deafness, Hard of Hearing and Deafblindness.
Lack of statistics for an effective EU inclusion strategy?!Save the Date – 15 November 2012, 14:00 – 17:30 CET The European Platform of Deafness, Hard of Hearing and Deafblindness is pleased to announce its first joint conference on the lack of detailed statistical...
Constituted the EU Platform for deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind. Copenhagen, May 26th 2012
Objectives: By working together we plan to make our groups more visible Plan to attend meetings together with representatives of the European Parliament and the Europe Provide information on specific topics as required especially to assist in the development of...
1 Million Signatures Campaign
EDbN is a member of EDF (European Disability Forum) which is a European level organisation campaigning for the rights of all disabled people in the European Union. EDF has just launched a campaign to collect 1 million signatures to combat discrimination in all aspects...
2006 Listen to me 3. Family Event — Salou, Catalonia (ES)
The V European Family Conference took place in Salou (close Barcelona), Catalonia – Spain, in October 2006 since the 1st until the 6th. The previous family conference was hold in Slovakia, The Netherlands, Italy and Denmark. From Italy these events receive the name of...
2004 Listen to me 2. A personal experience: Letter of Peter Fasung of Slovakia.
A personal experience: Letter of Peter Fasung of Slovakia. Wonderful family weekend in Slettestrand – Denmark 20.-27. june 2004 When we got the wind of the information that also in year 2004 we will participate on second family conference “Listen to me 2”, we were...
2004 Listen to me 2. Family Event — Slettestrand, Northern Jutland (DK)
For the young guests activities as: exploring local nature, music, outdoor sculptures, artistic activities. Drama and dance for the deaf blind participants and brothers and sisters. For parents: Discussion concerning the experiences and the future of European...
Europe recognises deafblindness as a distinct disability
Lucy Drescher reports on her work joining friends and colleagues across Europe that led to this ground-breaking decision! A historic Written Declaration on the rights of deafblind people was formally adopted by the European Parliament on 1 st April, 2004. This was the...
LONDON meeting. EDbN Reconstitution. March 2003.
EDbN was originally set up to access funding from Europe for deafblindness projects. One of its principles was to involve a parent or family representative, deafblind person and professional from each country. Equal importance was attached to the three groups. At one...
2002 Listen to me. A personal experience: Letter of Arleta Kubicka of POLAND
A personal experience: Letter of Arleta Kubicka of Poland. My name is Arleta Kubicka. I am a mother of 7 years old daughter, Izabela, who is a deaf-blind child. I live in Poznan, in west of Poland. On 20-27 of October 2002, I participated in the Family Event “Listen...
2002 May. Brussels seminar, The social inclusion for Deafblind people in the European Union
Semi-structured interview with deafblind people and family membersThere are at least 150,000 deafblind citizens livings in the European Union. The personal testimony which forms the basis of this report, reveals a group of people who count as amongst the most socially...
2002 Listen to me. Family Event – Ruvo di Puglia (BA, Italy)
For the young guests activities as: “Beyond the words” artistic activities. For parents: Life and choice by Frank Ullmer Growing up together by Ursula Heinemann Quality of life for family members, Patrizia Ceccarini Presentation of Apascide, the spanish organization...
2001 May. VIENNA (AUSTRIA) seminar, Deafblind people, family members and professionals working together
Austria is a country with a special geography. The country is divided in several regions. Each region has its own laws and structure. That is the reason why awareness raising and initiatives involving deafblind children and adults are done on a regional or local...
2000 May. Ancona (Italy) seminar, Equal Opportunities and Access for Deafblind people
Our EDbN seminar on the 20th of May 2000 in Ancona, Italy was on all aspects of equal opportunity for deafblind people. We have started a new area, where policy starts from the point of view of deafblind people themselves. There is the anti discrimination clause in...
1999 Kosice. Slovakia. Family event 3rd European Family Conference
The Third European Family Conference was held in Slovakia one sunny weekend in September 1999 in the beautiful city of Kosice. There were over fifty people from sixteen European countries, mainly parents and other family members and a few professionals, with a large...
1997 November. DUBLIN Seminar, Report back from the groups discussions: Deafblind people, professionals and parents.
The Deafblind group Research should be done to develop communication with four hands, hands on signin, technical aids, international exchange in this field. In the future we should have separate programmes at the same time: One programme on congenitally deafblindness...
1997. The Netherlands. Parents Conference
18TH - 21TH OF SEPTEMBER 1997 There were approximately 80 persons from all over Europe. Also from Africa and Canada. The programme was quite full. We had lectures about the big variety of deafblindness. Video films were shown. There was a programme for deafblind...