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Announcing the Zero Project Report 2021 on Employment and ICT!

  Having already introduced and celebrated our Zero Project Awardees for 2020-2021 at this year’s Zero Project Conference in February, here’s another opportunity to learn more about them – in our brand new Zero Project Report 2021 on Employment and ICT!  Within the pages of this report, you will find information on 82 Innovative Practices and Policies  on inclusive employment and from the ICT sector hailing from a staggering 46 countries!  But it doesn’t stop there. In this report, you will also find personalised life stories from many of […]

April 23, 2021 by
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First cooperation of NGOs between Israel and the UAE, enabled by Zero Project

The Zero Project is very happy that this groundbreaking cross-border contact was established at #ZeroCon21 at the UN in Vienna earlier this year, which will hopefully lead to improvements for persons with disabilities on all sides. It also shows the strength of the community of people with disabilities and its potential to create new connections […]

October 20, 2020 by

ZERO PROJECT 2021 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED!

The Zero Project is happy to announce the Shortlist of projects for the Zero Project Award 2021! These nominated Practices and Policies have made it through a detailed quality check and through one round of peer-reviewing from experts – with and without disabilities – from around the world. From an incredible 475 nominations, 178 nominations […]

August 31, 2020 by
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The Zero Project is looking for a project manager!

We are looking for a Project Manager who is available full time and willing to join a highly motivated team with worldwide outreach. Ideally someone who is ready to accept the challenges of a dynamic, fast-developing project. Our office is located in the center of Vienna, in the beautiful building of the old stock exchange. […]

August 25, 2020 by

Zero Project receives 475 nominations from 93 countries!

After carefully reviewing the nominations in the last few weeks the final figures have now been counted! Once again, we have broken the record and received 475 practices, overhauling the record of 469 nominations from last year on the topic of Inclusive Education. A huge thank you to everyone who has made a nomination. We […]

July 20, 2020 by
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The Zero Project/IAAP/G3ict Webinar series on “Highlighting 2020 Educational Innovative Initiatives”

The Zero Project, and International Association of Accessibility Professionals: IAAP, a division of G3ict – The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs, have come together to offer a series of free innovating webinars. Through sharing best practices that are not only global, scalable and either free or at low-cost, we are hopeful these solutions can be […]

June 26, 2020 by
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WHY NOMINATING INNOVATIVE POLICIES IS SO IMPORTANT

The Innovative Practices rightly get a lot of attention for their amazing work around the world to improve the lives of persons with disabilities. They also normally make up more than three-quarters of our awardees and show the incredible change that NGOs and businesses can create. But what about the Innovative Policies? Why should policies […]

June 25, 2020 by