Group photo of the participants of the meetingSecond transnational meeting of VIP-TECH-JOB: TIME 2 ACTFrom 14 to 15 October project partners met in Granada, Spain for the second transnational meeting, related the “VIP-TECH-JOB: TIME 2 ACT!”. The representatives from VIEWS International – Belgium, Aforisma – Italy, Dafni KEK – Greece and FDO from Spain discussed how to structure the content of three project intellectual outputs, in order to be really useful for the project beneficiaries.

The partners will produce a platform with a series of workshops, oriented to supported employment specialists, supporting blind job seekers. The objective is to provide to trainers and trained visually impaired people resources on how to be prepared for the meeting with potential employers, how to tackle the topic of impairment, how to work for better version of themselves, assistive technologies, EU work legislation ….

First intellectual output will inform them how the platform could be used and how to find answers of many questions related to the labor market access. During the meeting the partners designed the content of the second intellectual output; It will consist a series of 10 podcasts. Each episode will be dedicated to different success stories and best job practices in the European countries among the blinds. The third project product will produce accessible video content. It will show how the VIPS are struggling for equal access to the labor market.

Project quality, dissemination and public relation strategies were also tackled, so please follow the project updates also via our social media.

The partners are working to offer useful and structured resources, provided in accessible way.  They want to help as many visually impaired jobseekers as possible to achieve their goal- to be hired in the appropriate workplace. Looking forward to the next project steps!