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03.08.10 |
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Visit the Workshop Fair 2011 in Nuremberg
Once more, we are glad to invite you to visit our annual Workshop Fair in Nuremberg, taking place from 17 until 20 March 2011. Workshops for adapted work present their products and services and invite to exchange information and expert knowledge. In 2010, 17,000 visitors came to see the wide range of products and services presented by 250 exhibitors. Figures that the hosts NürnbergMesse and BAG:WfbM expect to reach again in 2011.Bild: © Peter Roggenthin
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26.07.10 |
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Spanish Organisation is looking for Project Partners
GRUPO GUREAK is a Spanish Sheltered Workshops Corporation located in Donostia-San Sebastian (Basque Country). One of its tasks is to create employment opportunities and vocational training activities for people with learning disabilities as well as for persons with very low working capacity.Bild: © GRUPO GUREAK
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14.07.10 |
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"Europe 2020” does not Consider the "Disability Pact“
In June 2010, the European Council met in Brussels to adopt "Europe 2020”. This includes the new ten-year plan for growth and employment that guarantees the sustainability of public financing in the European Union. The focus of this action are the promotion of employment, the improvement of conditions for innovation, research and development, the achievement of the climate and energy goals, the improvement of the level of education and the promotion of social inclusion, particularly through the reduction of poverty.Bild: © Sven Hoppe - Fotolia
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07.07.10 |
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A look back - World Congress of Inclusion International
3,000 persons with and without disabilities from more than 80 countries attended the 15th World Congress of Inclusion International from 16 - 19 June 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Organising associations were Inclusion Europe and the German Lebenshilfe Association. The event’s motto was „Inclusion – Transforming Global Rights into Action”, its focus was the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the practical implementation of this document.Bild: © inclusion2010.de
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23.06.10 |
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Anti-stress Programme ROSE
Since October 2008, nine partner organisations from six EU-Member States have been carrying out the project ROSE (Reducing Occupational Stress in Employment). Managers and supervisors whose work contributes to the inclusion of people with mental and intellectual disabilities are exposed to many stress factors. Currently, there is little support for them. The project aims to close this gap.Bild: © roseproject.eu
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27.05.10 |
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Directive against Discrimination Still Stalled
A new directive against discrimination was approved by the European Parliament in April 2009. The previous directive against discrimination applied only to employment, occupation and vocational training. The new directive intended to expand this to social protection, education, transportation and access to services. In order to be implemented, the new directive had to be adopted unanimously by all Member States in the European Council. The German Federal Government, however, blocked the directive.Bild: © Kokhanchikov - Fotolia
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07.05.10 |
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Members of the European Parliament visited Workshop for Adapted Work
Several Members of the European Parliament followed the invitation of MEP Dieter-Lebrecht Koch and visited the Hanauerland Werkstätten in Kehl-Kork on 21 April 2010. Since these Members of the European Parliament have a work focus on Europe’s occupational and social policy, this visit was an excellent opportunity to receive first-hand information on German workshops for adapted work. Bild: © Rolf Hoffmann, BAG:WfbM
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26.04.10 |
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European Commission presents its Strategy at Forum Europe 2010
The European dimension of the Workshop:Fair – especially in the field of vocational rehabilitation and participation of disabled persons in working life – has continually increased. In 2010, BAG:WfbM for the first time organized the ‘Forum Europe: Integration in Europe and occupational services in comparison’. The attendants had the opportunity to exchange information on structures of workshops for adapted work and on current trends and developments in the Member States of the European Union.Bild: © Uwe Niklas, BAG:WfbM
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16.04.10 |
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Members of the European Parliament visit German Workshop
In January, BAG:WfbM and EASPD organized the event "Employment for Persons with Disabilities - Key for social inclusion and personal development" at the European Parliament in Brussels. The great success of the event promted BAG:WfbM to organize the visit of the Hanauerland Werkstätten, a workshop for adapted work in Kehl-Kork near Strasbourg by Members of the European Parliament. Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the Disability Intergroup, had the original idea for the workshop visit.Bild: © Horst Wagner / eup-images
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09.04.10 |
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Governmental delegation from Thailand to visit BAG:WfbM
On 21 and 22 April 2010, BAG:WfbM is going to receive the visit of a delegation from the Government of Thailand. The Unit for the Integration for Persons with Disabilities in the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security is about to develop concepts to improve the integration of persons with disabilities in society. Bild: © Wikipedia
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26.03.10 |
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Disability Pact – Integral Part of Europe 2020
The European Commission presented its new economic and social strategy Europe 2020 in March. It aims to end the economic crisis and to prepare the European economy for the challenges of the next decade. The strategy contains three key elements and seven initiatives that are to be realised in the member states of the European Union.Bild: © Errol Hogenkamp - Fotolia
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18.03.10 |
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Workshop Fair 2010: A Complete Success
Prizewinners, prime information place, up-to-date trends, products, ideas and developments, services and rehabilitation – these terms best sum up the Workshop Fair 2010. Workshop representatives from all over Germany as well as from neighbouring countries took this opportunity to exchange information. Not to mention all the visitors, who simply wanted to buy nice products.Bild: © Lebenshilfe Braunschweig
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12.03.10 |
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Workshops are and remain indispensable!
“Workshops for adapted work are and remain indispensable for the participation of persons with dis-abilities in working life! They provide vocational training and employment for more than 280,000 persons, for whom the general labour market does not offer this possibility”, said Christine Hader-thauer, the Bavarian Social Minister, in her speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Workshop Fair Werkstätten:Messe 2010. Bild: © StMAS
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Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen e. V. (BAG:WfbM) is the political representative of workshops for adapted work in Germany. We represent 94% of all German workshops. All public welfare organisations and religious denominations work jointly in our organisation.
Our task is to give expert advice on questions related to employment, vocational training, financing and legal issues. Additionally, we are actively involved in the legislation process. BAG:WfbM promotes for the participation of persons with disabilities in working life.
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