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Kick-off meeting in Glasgow
The experts in deafblindness from around Europe, who held their first meeting in Glasgow on the 19th and 20th of November 2012, started off this two-year project granted by the Grundtvig Programme of the European Commission. The meeting joined the nine official organisations of the project, coming from eight EU Member States (United Kingdom contributes two organisations), gracefully hosted by Sense Scotland in Glasgow, placing their facilities at the disposal of the 25 participants, who had the chance to visit their centres and services.

Agreement with the non-official partners of the project
The five organizations which were not granted a budget to participate in the project have agreed to continue being linked to it as non-official partners to follow its development and collaborate with its implementation.This cooperation mainly guarantees the coverage...

APSOCECAT and CDH applied for the Comenius Regio Programme
On the 21st of February, the Catalan Association for Deafblind People (APSOCECAT) and the Danish Centre for Deafblindness and Hearing Loss (CDH) applied to the Comenius Regio Programme of the European Commission to finance a series of activities related to the...

Second common meeting of the project in Aalborg (Denmark)
Last 3 to 5 June, representatives and experts on deafblindness from the nine member organisations (and also the Romanian non-official partner) met again with the purpose of working in the European Grundtvig project. This second meeting of the project took place at the...

Most of the EU countries have already agreed to participate in the project
This new map shows the current situation of the EU countries already involved in the project. In this sense, the twelve countries highlighted in green correspond to the countries that have agreed to participate in the project, having as main task the completion of the...

Third joint meeting of the project at the DbI European Conference in Lille
Taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the 8th DbI European Conference, which took place in Lille (France), the team members of the project “European Deafblind Indicators” joined together in the facilities of the Grand Palais Congress Centre, in Lille...

Next to last meeting of the project
The meeting has focused on the analysis of the data obtained by each country and also on the discussion about the strategy of political impact that the application of the conclusions inferred from the project must guarantee. On the 24 and 25 February, the fourth...

European Conference on Deafblindness in Barcelona
After two years working on the European Deafblind Project, for Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission, the project is getting to an end. The last meeting will be held in Barcelona and offering an open day conference next 20th June. It is expected the...

Mapping Opportunities for Deafblind People across Europe
FINAL REPORT Final Report was presented on 20th June at the European Conference on Deafblindness held in Barcelona, Catalonia - Spain, by the European Deafblind Indicators team. 34 organisations from 26 countries have collaborated on the project. Click on the image to...