Exchange of experience - media development for the deaf people
"Exchange of experience - media development for the deaf people"
Implementation period from 11.2014 to 05.2016
Leader: Foundation of Regional Development VIRIBUS UNITIS (PL)
Partners:
- Polish Association of the Deaf Malopolska Branch, http://www.pzg.krakow.pl/
- Associated Boarding School Jana Vojtaššáka (SK), http://ssjvile.edupage.sk/
- Hungarian Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, http://sinosz.hu/
- Association of Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Serbia, http://www.savezgluvihsrbije.org.rs/
- Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro (AYDM), http://umhcg.com/
Aims within the project:
1) Support to human rights advocates through identification of essential changes in law concerning the deaf in Serbia and Montenegro (conference and report about legal and social status)
2) Lider together with its partners will conduct workshops containing Information Technology and its tools (on-line translations, internet platform, multimedia in sign language)
Workshops will result in strengthening civil society by fostering information on civil and minority rights
3) Execution of training system www, which will contribute to support to independent media and increase the “watchdog” capacities of civil society
These actions will improve abilities and integration of the deaf as minority, as well as reinforce their social status
What is more these actions will result in empowerment of NGO (non-Governmental Organizations) potential and independent media
This project will be implemented in the frame the Visegrad + Program thanks to co-financing by Visegrad Fund and Korean Contribution