DEF: Deaf Entrepreneurs for the Future

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In Europe, there are approximately 51 million people with hearing problems (including hearing loss and deafness), which is 9% of the EU population (1 in 10). In line with the “Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021”, launched by the European Commission (EC) to ensure their inclusion and economic autonomy, and with the EU agenda for Higher Education (HE), which includes among its priorities the creation of inclusive HE systems.

Objectives

The project objective is to promote and create a more inclusive hei system that promotes equal access and equality for deaf people in entrepreneurship education, through concrete tools addressed to european heis, their deaf students and other stakeholders. This goal generates 4 specific objectives:

Support the is in adaptation of its self-entrepreneurship and business management courses to the educational needs of deaf students, originally designed for hearing people.
Promote the entry of deaf students into the labour market as self-employed workers or entrepreneurs, addressing related employment barriers.
Debunk the myth of low employability and low professional contribution of deaf people.
Promote an innovative approach in the learning process and, following the "social model of disability", involve all stakeholders in the project activities

Target groups

EU higher education institutions (HEIs) and their teachers
Deaf students at higher education institutions
The labor market and its representatives
Civil society

Works packages

WP1: Project Management

WP2: DEF e-Compendium for Higher Education

WP3: DEF e-Space for Deaf Students

WP4: DEF for the Community

WP5: Dissemination, valorization and sustainability

Partners

UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA- Coordinator- Italy

POLYTECHNIC LODZKA – Poland

Społeczna Akademia Nauk- Poland

FALCO&ASSOCIATES SRL- Italy

EUROPEAN UNION OF THE DEAF AISBL- Belgium

European Association of Erasmus Coordinators – Cyprus

Promotional materials

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeafEntrepreneursfortheFuture

Duration: 01/11/2024- 10/31/2026

More information about project:

International Cooperation and Projects Department (e-mail: international.projects@san.edu.pl)

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

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