German Federation of Blind and Visually Impaired People
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German Federation of Blind and Visually Impaired People |
European Rehabilitation Projects
The "MARQUISA"
project
The Düren Centre for
Vocational Training and Rehabilitation has started to apply new
methods of providing access to the labour market for long-term
unemployed blind and visually impaired people through the
"MARQUISA" project - a programme providing blind
and visually impaired populations with marketable skills.
MARQUISA is part of the European project UMBRELLA in which Germany, Finland, Italy and the Netherlands participate. On the German side, the vocational training and rehabilitation centres in Düren, Halle and Michaelshoven/Köln are project partners.
Through DBSV Director-General, Hans-Dieter Später, the German Federation of Blind and Visually Impaired People is represented on the oversight body of the transnational project whose objectives are the piloting and development of new approaches to vocational training and rehabilitation. It further assesses the preconditions for the use of technical devices for people with disabilities.
It is planned to make the results of the project available especially to people with visual impairment, potential employers, placement services and training and rehabilitation centres. As an additional goal the setting up of an European Knowledge Institute (EKI) is envisaged.
MARQUISA seeks to improve the
employment prospects of jobless blind and visually impaired
people, and to help them integrate into their occupational everyday
life.
The project is co-financed by the
European Union.
Developing the professional skills and qualification of people throughout the entire working age - which is wellknown under the catchword of "life long learning" - has become a requirement for almost every job and everybody.
To achieve this, follow-up training programmes must be orientated to the needs of the labour market to make appropriate qualification possible.
Consequently, the MARQUISA project
comprises three key phases: providing enhanced qualification,
training on the job and placement and help to adapt to their job
assignments for those who have become successfully
employed.
Target populations are especially
long-term unemployed blind and visually impaired people who have
completed a vocational training in the fields of data processing,
telephone operating or as assemblers and industrial workers
respectively.
Düren Centre for Vocational
Training and Rehabilitation
BFW Düren
GmbH
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