J.O.B.S. MDVI

Training for Professionals working with individuals with multiple disabilities and visual impairment on finding jobs and opportunities that benefit society.

JOBS MDVI is a Leonardo project, a European grant scheme funded by the European Union’s Education Program. JOBS MDVI stands for: “Training for Professionals working with individuals with multiple disabilities and visual impairment on finding jobs and opportunities that benefit society”.

In Icelandic, this could be translated as: “Training of employees who work with visually impaired individuals with additional disabilities to find suitable jobs and opportunities”.

The aim of the project is to examine the training possibilities of professionals in this field as well as to develop an ideology or methods that will benefit visually impaired individuals with additional disabilities wherever they are in life. To date, it has proved difficult in most, if not all, European countries to find suitable work or day care for these individuals. It is therefore important that employees and professionals who work with individuals see opportunities and not obstacles in bringing people with visual impairments into the labor market or day care.

The center leads the project and manages it. The intention is to obtain information on the best possible working methods and opportunities that will be useful to professionals in working with blind / visually impaired individuals with additional disabilities. There is a wide range of project groups where the countries each send different professionals and institutions to present their work.

The intention is to obtain information on the best possible working methods and opportunities that will be useful to professionals in working with blind / visually impaired individuals with additional disabilities. There is a wide range of project groups where the countries each send different professionals and institutions to present their work.

The project is divided into four main themes:

1. Job placement / job training
2. Daycare
3. Self-help
4. Technology

Each theme seeks to find ways and training opportunities for staff and professionals to strengthen themselves in that field. In this way, it can bring the knowledge home to its own country and environment.

The task force ultimately seeks to support the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It states that visually impaired people with additional disabilities have the greatest opportunities for employment, day care, communication and the ability to help themselves in their community.