DeafYoungCode

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Unemployment of young people (under 25) in the EU still remains very high and the it also worsens when it comes to deaf young people, where the obstacles they have to overcome to achieve their professional goals are much bigger. In the meantime, the labor needs are rapidly shifting and the practical skills required to obtain today’s increasingly technical jobs are increasing. Technology is now the backbone in many jobs and programming languages and coding skills could be the key to success.

To address this evidence, the DYC project aims to promote the social and work inclusion of deaf young people in 7 countries(IT, AT, SK, SB, RO, HU and GR) and across Europe, focusing on the development of digital skills in general and coding and programming, not only teaching the passive use of digital devices, but enabling them to actively code and learn to code.

The project consortium consists of the following organisations:

  • – Associazione Ergon a favore dei Sordi (Italy)
  • – Equalizent Schulungs und Beratungs Gmbh (Austria)
  • – DeafStudio (Slovakia)
  • – Skola sa domom za ucenike ostecenog sluha i govora (Serbia)
  • – Liceul tehnologic special Vasile Pavelcu (Romania)
  • – Signcoders kft (Hungary)
  • – Gkintikas bros (Greece)
  • – European Digital Learning Network – DLearn (Italy).

During its lifetime (27 months), the project is expected to result in:

  • 1) A clickable digital map of good practices related to training, coding services and programming accessible to the deaf.
  • 2) A blended learning training package including a large number of animated coding tutorial videos has been developed, tested by young deaf people and available online in an accessible, multilingual format.

The main target group is young deaf people. By providing access to coding/programming we increase their creativity, teach people to cooperate and work together across physical and geographical boundaries and communicate in a universal language. Our secondary target group is youth workers and trainers.

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