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Ongoing Projects
ICFproVIP 2009 - 2011
The Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted, IBOS is coordinating a new European Leo-nardo Partnership. The purpose of the partnership between 7 institutes is to gain knowl-edge about how to implement ICF (International Classification of Functioning, (Dis)Ability and Health) as a tool in (re)habilitation of vision impaired persons (VIP).
The ICF is an international classification of health and health-related domains approved and published by WHO in 2001. It presents a holistic framework for measuring (for coding) different information on functioning that also should be transferred to staff working with VIPs in order to facilitate cooperation and transparency between different professions and the individual VIP.
The partnership will address the different ways in which (re)habilitation for VIPs and the implementation of ICF as a tool are being organised and carried out in the partner coun-tries and institutes: National Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind in Bulgaria; Visio in Nether-lands, BFW Düren in Germany; Liceul pentru Deficienti de Vedere in Romania; NCBI in Ireland, Institut Montéclair, France and IBOS, Denmark . We will address our differences in economic possibilities, legislation, professional traditions, opinions, etc. and adapt and test a two day course in ICF for staff at VIP institutes.
Between meetings it is up to the partners to work individually and nationally with the im-plementation of ICF at their own pace and according to their own needs as some are quite new in this field and some a bit more experienced, some are small and some are large institutions.
At the end of the partnership we also want to address the possibilities and problems facing a further development of the ICF classification system into the visual and rehabilitation field in cooperation with researchers and the WHO.
The debates and experiences from implementing the use of ICF to VIP will be presented at a public final conference and at the Enviter.eu Homepage.
Coordinator: Dorthe Marie Degn, dmd@ibos.dk
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The good match
The course "The good Match" is mainly recommended for people with low vision or blindness (visual disability) having a short educational background, no work experience or with many years of experience from employment, who has witnessed the complexity making a way into employment.
The course is constructed in a three phase period:
- Assesment period, with focus on the persons Social Competences and Personal Competences
- Employment periods, focus on "Learning by doing" in several companies
- Debriefing period, analyzing the results, what to do next if no occupation achieved
Main objective
is that the participants are having a job by the end period of project.
The project is funded by Labour Market Authority and is lead by the Institute.
Enterprise within the Social Service Section
Enterprise within the Social Service Sectionet is a Nordic project. The aim is to develop pedagogical models of enterprise in the field of adult education in the social service section. A plan will be made for implementation in the Northern countries.
Svenske Yrkesinstitutet is the leader of the project.
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Businesshouse Vision Trade Center
Businesshouse Vision Trade Center is granted by the European Social Fund - Objective 3, Equal: The socially marginalised.
Vision Trade Center is a concrete demonstration of the value of disabled staff as a labour resource.
Its an educational concept that leads to employment.
The project are working with rehabilitation in close cooperation with the business environment.
Visit the Vision Trade Center homepage
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Core Competence
The overall aim is to maintain and develop core compentence in professional networks.
Other aims:
- To implement international experience and research results from developmental work into the Danish professionals environment.
- To participate in the development of this core expertice at both Danish and international level.
- To describe levels of quality in the professional work.