The European Parliament promotes equality of opportunity and encourages applications from women and men with disabilities for its traineeship programmes. In 2006 the European Parliament launched a specific traineeship programme for people with disabilities. This programme is a positive action measure, as described in Article 4 of the Code of Good Practice for the Employment of People with Disabilities.
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Dear Views full members and subscribing members,
I'm sorry to inform you That the training course where visually impaired youth workers could learn how to fill in the new eu pdf forms for the yia programme, proposed by Pontes association wasn't approved by the romanian national agency.
For this reason, it won't be possible for Pontes to organise a Views International general assembly after the training.
The Views International board of administrators and the executive office have to find a new moment.
You will be informed as soon as we have a new proposal for our annual meeting.
Marco Gualazzini for The International Herald Tribune
In the game, a team consists of two sighted members, who serve as base coaches to five blind or visually impaired ones. To orient players, clap paddles and a beeping first base are used.
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
The full article can be viewed at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/world/europe/in-italy-blind-baseball-l...
If you are interested to know more, want to see the game or need more info to start a team in your
After many requests of VI’ members, having the approval of the Bord of Directors and understanding the need for more immediate communication between the members of VI, VIEWS International has now its own mailing list, which is provided free to the members and partners of VIEWS in order to improve our partnership through the easy way of the imidiate cyber communication by e-mail.
Users can subscribe to the list by sending an e-mail to
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Views International now has partners in 21 countries, an international Board of Directors and various working groups that work together to improve certain aspects of our tasks.
These facts imply that members often need to talk with people in countries abroad. Of course, Skype is an easy and cheap way to do so. However, when a good Internet connection is not at hand, a Skype conference can turn into a painful and frustrating experience.