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Getting to grips with a European model : The project has developed a training model which will form the basis for the development of courses for visually impaired masseurs throughout Europe and will hopefully contribute to the creation of Europe-wide accreditation. This project started in 2001 and lasted 39 months.

Besides numerous other issues of social discrimination and drawbacks, blind and visually impaired people particularly face serious disadvantages on the labour market. The unemployment rate among this target group of more than 6.5 million people in Europe is extremely high in all EU countries.(E. g. Germany: 72 %; Poland: 87 %; between 40 and 50 % on average in the European countries; see Employmen ...