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For the first time ever, the Zero Project is publishing the Shortlist of projects for the Zero Project Awards. 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 469 nominations, […]
In August, the Zero Project published a supplement in a leading Austrian daily newspaper “Die Presse”. The supplement focuses on the great opportunity and benefits for businesses when employing people with disabilities. It highlights 53 examples of successful inclusion and integration, showing the benefits for the business, the employees and society in general. The supplement […]
The M-Enabling Forum Europe is just 2 weeks away! We’re excited to be attending this event which takes place in Düsseldorf and will focus on assistive technologies and digital accessibility. The second edition of M-Enabling Forum Europe in Germany will take place alongside REHACARE on September 19, 2019. The conference with its accompanying tabletop presentation […]
The AidEx Humanitarian Hero of the Year Award aims to recognise and celebrate stand-out individuals from the humanitarian aid and development community and showcases the courageous heroism and dedication that they put into their line of work. This award is open to anyone involved in the aid and development community including those who are community volunteers, or […]
The Zero Project is looking for support from a native or an excellent English speaker to support factsheet and report writing. We are looking for a contractor who can provide authoring and editing support between October 2019 and January 2020. The ideal candidate should have experience of working on the topic of disability inclusion or […]
Congratulations to #ZeroCon19 awardee and Zero Project Impact Transfer participant Greta & Starks on their new partnership with social impact investor Joachim Schoss, founder of the Scout24 group and MyHandicap.de. Having connected through the Impact Transfer programme, their goal is to make the GRETA app, which provides subtitles and audio description for accessible cinema screenings, […]
The Disabiliy Rights Fund (DRF) opened its round 2 request for proposals on 24th June 2019. It is looking for organisations in the Pacific Island Countries, Rwanda and Uganda to apply for grants ranging from $5,000 to $100,000. The DRF supports the human rights and inclusion in development of persons with disabilities. Interested organisations should […]
You may have seen our blog post a couple of weeks back about supporting the United Nations to implement their Disability Inclusion Strategy. We received lots of great feedback and interest about getting involved in the campaign – So here’s a second chance to find out what it’s all about and to get involved. As […]
It has been a record-breaking nomination period. We have received more nominations than ever before! And from more countries! We have spent the last few weeks diligently checking the nominations and the final figures have now been counted. We have received more than 469 practices, breaking the 400 mark for the first time ever and […]
Our very good friends at Discovering Hands, are looking for a trainee. Discovering Hands is a social enterprise that uses the sense of touch of visually impaired women in the early detection of breast cancer. Their dynamic team are looking for a trainee to work in Austria, to support the project managers and manage individual […]