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Comprehensive job-creation model from East Europe expanding internationally
The self-funded programme assists people with disabilities to acquire soft skills and professional abilities. Jamba also works with employers and operates a job matching platform. Launched in 2017, by 2020 Jamba has trained more than 590 people, has 58 partner organizations, and has more than 2,000 candidates in its database.
JAMBA - Career for All, JAMBA - Career For All, Bulgaria -
Web-browser extension for looking up explanations in sign language
Elix Dictionary was developed by the French NGO Signes de Sens. It is a bilingual video dictionary in French Sign Language. With free extension for web browsers, Elix Bubble users can access Elix Dictionary by right-clicking on a word without leaving the website.
Signes de sens, La Bulle Elix, France -
Accessible equipment for children´s playgrounds
MagikMe is a social enterprise founded by five parents of children with disabilities. Together with a group of experts, they created a range of playground equipment that allows children with disabilities to get out of their pushchairs and wheelchairs and join in the play. By 2017 the equipment had been installed in more than 40 playgrounds.
MagikMe Inclusive Play, Hungary -
Personal Ombudsmen Enhance Self-Determination
Personal ombudsmen (POs) assist individuals with psychosocial disabilities in taking control of their own situation. In 2017 the organization employed a self-determination coordinator (referred to as a BISAM) charged with working alongside POs in group homes; and in that year the POs served more than 600 people.
PO Skåne - Personal ombudsman in Skåne, Sweden -
Bank employees provide sign language services to customers
Since 2015, UniCredit Bank Austria has been offering Austria-wide consultations for customers in the form of sign language via video calls allowing a variety of transactions. Three sales managers are available for consultation in sign language as part of the "online branch" from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. by appointment
Unicredit Bank Austria AG, Smart Banking in Sign Language, Austria -
Collection of digital and technical solutions for universally designed workplaces
The Nordic Welfare Centre’s programme named Future of Working Life identifies and provides solutions in 18 technology areas that have the potential to improve the situation of people with disabilities in the labour market. The main target groups are employers, employees, and experts in the open labour market.
Nordic Welfare Centre, The Future of Working Life, Sweden -
Accurate navigation system for the blind and visually impaired to improve public services
Waymap, an IT-start-up company from the United Kingdom, enables visually impaired people to orient themselves indoors and outdoors with a location accuracy of one meter. It is aimed at public transport operators, who offer the service free of charge to customers with disabilities.
Waymap, Waymap, United Kingdom -
An accessibility framework for a global enterprise in healthcare and agriculture
Bayer’s ENABLE framework, 'Enabling All, Excluding None', was co-developed with 70 country BRG leads and people with disabilities. Funded centrally with local rollouts, it added QR codes to ~30 products (2M users), improved 250+ brand websites and upgraded 200 sites.
Bayer, Enabling All, Excluding None Framework, Germany -
Translating eye movements into music and integrating robotic arms to play instruments
EyeHarp turns eye and head movements into music and connects to robotic arms so people with severe physical disabilities can play real instruments. It is used in therapy and inclusive education, trains professionals, and scales via licences and partnerships.
Fundacion SIFU, EyeHarp, Spain -
An immersive test centre to provide independent mobility for people with disabilities
The Wayfinding Centre is an indoor test hall that simulates airports, buses, trams, stations and street crossings. It helps people with disabilities practice independent travel. Training is co-delivered by Access Ambassadors. By 2025 it trained 600+ professionals and ~300 participants.
Vision Ireland Services, The Wayfinding Centre, Ireland