FROM 10 by 12 February 2021 of the year Austria hosted the international conference Zero Project, where the results of the competition of projects in the field of employment of people with disabilities were summed up, reports the press service of the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Zero Ptoject is a platform, where they share the most innovative and effective solutions to problems, faced by people with disabilities. The mission of the project is to promote the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, creating a world without barriers. At the competition 2021 years were presented 475 projects from all over the world, from which the experts made a short list of nominees.
Nizhny Novgorod project on the problems of employment of people with disabilities was awarded at an international competition
Nizhny Novgorod regional public organization cultural, social and labor rehabilitation of disabled support workers and wheelchair users “Invatur” presented the project to the jury “Training and production workshop ARTel”, implemented in 2019 year with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund. Мастерская дает возможность людям с инвалидностью попробовать свои силы в освоении современных технологий — 3D-печати, work on machine tools with programmed control, manufacture of souvenir products by the method of thermal sublimation transfer. In the learning process, you can not only master the computer program of 3D design, draw a project, but also make on the machine a real product made of plastic or wood.
Project “Invatur” was included in the shortlist of nominees and was presented at the conference in the 3D technology section together with projects from Spain, India, Brazil.
The workshop continues its development. The project is being implemented now “Work for everyone” under subprogramme “Support for socially oriented non-profit organizations in the Nizhny Novgorod region”: purchased new equipment, expanded range of technologies for training.
A source: pfo.volga.news
