Citibank N.A. – Sofia Branch is seeking to recruit person with disability for the Controls Unit / Internal Audit Expert
Citibank N.A. – Sofia Branch is seeking to recruit person with disability for the Controls Unit / Internal Audit Expert
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OASIS press conference
The OASIS project organised a press conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on 11 May 2010. Below is a TV broadcast from the event.
VERITAS kick-off meeting
MCA participated in the first VERITAS meeting, hosted by the Coordinator – FhG/IAO Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Institute – in Stuttgart (Germany) on 11-12 January 2010.
VERITAS aims at developing, validating and assessing an open framework for built-in accessibility at all stages of ICT and non-ICT product development. The goal is to introduce simulation-based and virtual reality testing at all stages of product design and development into the automotive, smart living spaces, workplaces, infotainment and personal healthcare applications areas. This is intended to ensure that future products and services will be systematically designed for all people, including older people and people with disabilities and functional limitations.
OASIS project video goes live
OASIS is an FP7 project which stands for Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation. In this animated video, created by MCA, we are following John and Sue who are using the OASIS services on a daily basis.
The video incorporates following aspects:
- Independent living applications
* Nutritional advisor
* Activity coach
* Brain and skills trainer
* Social communities platform
* Health monitoring
* Environmental control
- Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications
* Transport information services
* Route guidance
* Personal mobility
* Smart workplaces
For more information about the project, please visit our website at: www.oasis-project.eu
The project for building of Sheltered House 2 in the Town of Sliven Ended Successfully
On 19th November in the town of Sliven was held the final conference on project “Deinstitutionalization of persons taken out from specialized institutions by establishing a Sheltered House in the town of Sliven” within the National PHARE 2006 Programme. As you already know, Marie Curie Association had the responsibility to conduct internal monitoring on the implementation of the project activities. More / Повече...
Mainstreaming of Mentoring Programmes and VM2 Products
On October 2nd in the town of Panagyurishte “Marie Curie Association” conducted training entitled “Application of Mentoring Programmes in Supporting Young People at Risk”. The purpose was to present the mentoring programmes as an innovative tool which encourages social inclusion and professional development of the disadvantaged. In this training psychologists and social workers from the local Social Support Center (SSC) as well as the Manager of the “House for Accommodating Children and Young People Deprived of Parents’ Care” took part. SSC has started work on the territory of Panagyurishte since May 2009 More / Повече...
An International Conference Dedicated to Creativity and Innovations in
At the end of September 2009 Marie Curie Association together with its Belgian partners from “PhoenixKM” conducted its annual international conference carried out with the financial support of the “Lifelong Learning Programme” (LLP).
The purpose of this event was to present the results and outcomes of ten international projects which create opportunities for vocational training and labour market realisation of people with disabilities. More / Повече...
“Application of Mentoring Programmes in Supporting Young People At Risk”
On October 2 in the town of Panagyurishte “Marie Curie Association” conducted training which had as a topic “Application of Mentoring Programmes in Supporting Young People At Risk”. The purpose was to present the mentoring programmes as an innovative tool which encourages social inclusion and professional development of the disadvantaged. In this training psychologists and social workers from the Local Social Support Center (LSSC) as well as the Manager of the “House for Accommodating Children and Young People Deprived of Parents’ Care” took part. LSSC has started work on the territory of Panagyurishte since May 2009. From that time, more than a hundred young people have asked the team working in the center for support. The work with young people is aimed at their socialisation and at acquiring skills for an independent and active living. The young and ambitious team seeks various opportunities for the young people’s development. Therefore the representatives of Marie Curie Association were asked to provide training to the psychologists and to the social workers in organising and applying mentoring programmes. More / Повече...
Another Conference from Creativity and Innovative Solutions Cycle Was Held on 11 September in Sofia
Marie Curie Association held its conference entitled “Creativity and Innovative Solutions in Training of People with Disabilities” on 11 September 2009 in Sofia city. Over 80 participants came in Sofia Press conference hall and the representatives of Marie Curie Association acquainted them with different methods of accessible training. The results of 8 international projects funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme were presented. The conference was opened by Mariya Goranova-Valkova, an executive director of the association organizing the event. She greeted the participants linking the theme of the present conference and the European Year of Creativity and Innovation which 2009 is according to the calendar of the European Commission. Afterwards presentations with focus on the products and the results of the 8 projects were delivered.
Quality Assurance and Accessible Training 2 (QATRAIN2) and Enabling Teachers and Trainers to Improve Accessibility of Adult Education (ETTAD) were the first presented projects. This was followed by the presentation of Supporting Vocational Education and Training of Disadvantaged User Community (E-Access II project). The series of presentations about accessible e-learning was completed by Educational Platform for People with Physical Disabilities (EPDP project).
The participants could also see the serious educational games for adults with disabilities developed within Game on Accessible Learning Programme (GOAL.NET project).
Mentoring schemes as a tool for informal learning and especially Validating Mentoring 2 (VM2) project was also among the presented projects. The results of Key Competencies Kit for Facing Lifelong Learning were also showed in the second part of the conference. The following presentation was about the possibilities and functionalities of the common European portal combining the results of initiatives with focus on people with disabilities. This portal is one of the products of ENEVA project and is respectively named after it.
The last presentation in the Agenda was delivered by M-r Lachezar Afrikanov, a representative of Human Resource Development Center. He explained about the wide range of opportunities of LLP and he also announced the forthcoming open calls for project proposals. The conference was closed with a buffet where the participants could exchange information in informal environment. The participants could get some information about the various European projects through both the oral presentations and the attractive promotional materials exposed on a special stand in the lounge of the conference hall. All presentations from the event on 11 September could be found on the web page of Marie Curie Association: www.marie-curie-bg.org As it was already mentioned this was the second from a series of conferences organized by Marie Curie Association. The next is international one and will be held on 25 September in Brussels. This cycle will be closed by a regional seminar on 9 October in the town of Smolyan.
European Parliament offers traineeship opportunities for persons with disabilities
Òhis is to remind you that the European Parliament offers traineeship opportunities for persons with disabilities. The 7th traineeship period will start on 1 March 2010 for 6 months and the application period has just started.
You can find the call for applications (open until 15 October 2009) here:
