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DESIGNS - VET approaches to Creating Employment for Sign Language Users in Europe

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

THE PROBLEMDeaf people throughout the world have always been challenged to find and retain satisfactory and rewarding employment. Over the past 5 years the economic recession, the changing nature of employment and cutbacks in government spending, including welfare reform, have combine to make the next few years particularly challenging for Deaf people and those organisations that seek to improve ...
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Competitiveness Through Exporting: E-Training for Trade Experts

The project will design and create an e-training platform to provide lessons on international trade and marketing for use by trade trainers, export managers and international marketers. The project's on-line learning platform will be in the form of a website comprising a variety of learning formats, including: a portal for trade trainers and international marketing lecturers to host their course ...
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FOSTER - Friendly Organisational Strategies and Training for Employment Relations

The FOSTER project will facilitate knowledge transfer, primarily for the benefit of SME's, in relation to implementing equality of access to employment via friendly, organisational strategies that also incorporate training as a tool of internal and external mobility. The full range of groups at risk of discrimination will be covered, i.e. Article 13 groups as well as long-term unemployed and resid...
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Sign Awareness and Learning the Language – SIGNALL

The SIGNALL project is a transnational language competency and training project that aims to increase awareness of Deaf culture and sign languages amongst organisations, employers and citizens in general. Overall, the project aims to cultivate behavioural change and commitment from a range of organisations with respect to how deaf people are perceived and treated. The project's broad remit will in...
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STREAM - Strategic Training for Recruitment and Retention of Employees & Managers

The STREAM project aims to develop information and training tools for human resources personnel in large or small companies, to particularly address staff recruitment and retention problems in the hospitality sector.End products (to be made available in paper-based & DVD format) will comprise a comparative report on recruitment, retention and training practice in the five participating partner cou...
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STEP - Service Sector Training in European Employment Practices

The project is based on the results of a 2002 Pilot project called STREAM (IRL/02/B/F/PP-119105), which examined recruitment and retention strategies in the hotel and catering sector. The present project implements the research findings of Stream in a broader geographical content thereby boosting awareness of human resources management principles in the sector. The focus is extended to the broader...
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MEDISIGNS

Research indicates that Deaf people appear to be less healthy than hearing people and do not get proper access to health services. A number of issues are important to consider when examining the Doctor-deaf patient relationship. These include the medic’s knowledge of Deaf culture, the use of an interpreter, the level of literacy of the deaf patient. the time the medic gives to the patient, and how...
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INNOVATIVE ACCOUNTING TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR SME's

INNO-AT project will support improvements in accounting and financial reporting skills within SMEs, in order to provide useful financial information to a wide range of users and reinforce that accounting as a management tool, fosters the evolution of small and medium-sized businesses.The project utilises national GAAP, IAS/IFRS and IFAC to develop resources for training and assessment relevant to ...
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SIGNALL III - Working with the Deaf Community

Deaf people continue encounter barriers to education, employment and access to the provision of goods and services. It is necessary to understand Deaf culture and equip those working with deaf people with necessary education,training and qualifications so that they are better skilled in bridging (at least) a communication gap as well as being able to better under Deaf people’s needs. The education...
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SIGNALL II

The course provides an overview on historical, contemporary local and international perspectives on deafness and on being Deaf. It introduces concepts as such as Deafhood (Ladd), the Sign Language Person (Jokinen) and Deaf ethnicity (Lane, Corker), as well as positioning Deaf community responses to challenges from liberal thought, the eugenics movement, as well as modern medical interventions. Del...
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