About Financial Signs
As the saying goes:
Money makes the world go round
Geld regiert die Welt
A pénz mozgatja a világot
I soldi fanno girare il mondo
peniaze točia svetom
There are three work packages to help young deaf people to learn financial skills.
Clickable map:
What information, training and services are already available for deaf people (in Sign Language)? We are developing a digital map to show good practices in Austria, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia. All information is in Sign Language with (easy reading) plain language texts.
Video toolkit:
We are developing animated videos in Sign Language to explain 10 different financial skills. These include: How do I plan my household expenditure? What can I do with my savings? How can I access my bank account online? Our videos are signed and subtitled. The content of every video is also available in a plain language text. There will also be an ÖGS vocabulary list of complex financial terms with pictures and explanations in plain language.
Blended learning training:
We are also developing a blended learning training course based on the strengths and needs of deaf young people and youth workers. We are planning a week-long training seminar for deaf youth workers, who then pilot the training with 40 young deaf people.
Partner
equalizent was founded in 2004 and has 4 main areas of focus: people who are deaf; people who are hard of hearing; Sign Language; and diversity management.
equalizent’s training and company concept are unique in Europe.
Through various training and advisory services, equalizent supports people who are deaf and hard of hearing, as well as people with other disabilities, to find work. A third of staff members are deaf. This means that deaf trainees are trained by deaf peers.
equalizent founded HANDS UP, an interactive exhibition, raising awareness about the Deaf world.
For more information about equalizent:
www.equalizent.com (in German and English)
Istituto dei Sordi di Torino or the Turin Institute for the Deaf is a non-governmental organisation founded in the nineteenth century in order to provide support for people with hearing problems (deaf, blind, and deafblind) and to train their teachers.
The Institute is located at Pianezza in the North-West of Italy and provides various types of support including daily care, assisted housing, assisted learning, therapy workshops (painting, cooking, cinema, sporting activities), VET education of people with disabilities. The Institute is highly experienced in Erasmus +projects.
For more information about Istituto dei Sordi di Torino:
www.istitutosorditorino.org (in Italian and English).
We support various groups, non-profit organizations and civic associations of adult and youth people who are sign language users. This category includes deaf, hard of hearing, interpreters and youth people who have various other disabilities and are proficient in sign language.
Our aim is to create innovative and productive solutions for the development of sign language users. Our company strives to support youth sign language users in their growth and development, to help pass on the right tools needed for youth and organizations to grow. The next journey, the continuation is then up to them. That’s how our logo depicts it – a few steps together, then they need to step out on their own. The colour green is a symbol of growth, development, and a wish for success. This is the vision of our company that we want to develop. To be partners with the people who are doing the work and with the organisations that are (co-)working with the people who are doing the work.
For more information about Innosign:
https://www.innosign.eu/ (in Slovak)
SignCoders is a Social Enterprise founded with the goal of enabling a successful career for highly qualified deaf professionals in the digital economy.
We have two main areas of activity. As a regular market player, we are a digital agency taking on client assignments, such as designing and developing websites and mobile apps for them. We see competing with other service providers as a key element of deaf empowerment.
An equally important area is one that incorporates classic NGO-like activities related to our mission. These include soft-skill and vocational trainings for the local deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, awareness workshops for hearing people and popularising Sign Language. In particular, tech training is at the heart of our strategy. We keep building partnerships to fill the digital education gap.
We reframe hearing disability as a communication challenge. This approach helps to level the field enormously. We have successfully built an inclusive and barrier-free work environment. Hearing, hard-of-hearing and deaf colleagues work together at SignCoders.
For more information about SignCoders:
https://signcoders.hu (in Hungarian and English)
equalizent was founded in 2004 and has 4 main areas of focus: people who are deaf; people who are hard of hearing; Sign Language; and diversity management.
equalizent’s training and company concept are unique in Europe.
Through various training and advisory services, equalizent supports people who are deaf and hard of hearing, as well as people with other disabilities, to find work. A third of staff members are deaf. This means that deaf trainees are trained by deaf peers.
equalizent founded HANDS UP, an interactive exhibition, raising awareness about the Deaf world.
For more information about equalizent:
www.equalizent.wien (in German and English)
Istituto dei Sordi di Torino or the Turin Institute for the Deaf is a non-governmental organisation founded in the nineteenth century in order to provide support for people with hearing problems (deaf, blind, and deafblind) and to train their teachers.
The Institute is located at Pianezza in the North-West of Italy and provides various types of support including daily care, assisted housing, assisted learning, therapy workshops (painting, cooking, cinema, sporting activities), VET education of people with disabilities. The Institute is highly experienced in Erasmus +projects.
For more information about Istituto dei Sordi di Torino:
www.istitutosorditorino.org (in Italian and English).
We support various groups, non-profit organizations and civic associations of adult and youth people who are sign language users. This category includes deaf, hard of hearing, interpreters and youth people who have various other disabilities and are proficient in sign language.
Our aim is to create innovative and productive solutions for the development of sign language users. Our company strives to support youth sign language users in their growth and development, to help pass on the right tools needed for youth and organizations to grow. The next journey, the continuation is then up to them. That’s how our logo depicts it – a few steps together, then they need to step out on their own. The colour green is a symbol of growth, development, and a wish for success. This is the vision of our company that we want to develop. To be partners with the people who are doing the work and with the organisations that are (co-)working with the people who are doing the work.
For more information about Innosign:
https://www.innosign.eu/ (in Slovak)
SignCoders is a Social Enterprise founded with the goal of enabling a successful career for highly qualified deaf professionals in the digital economy.
We have two main areas of activity. As a regular market player, we are a digital agency taking on client assignments, such as designing and developing websites and mobile apps for them. We see competing with other service providers as a key element of deaf empowerment.
An equally important area is one that incorporates classic NGO-like activities related to our mission. These include soft-skill and vocational trainings for the local deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, awareness workshops for hearing people and popularising Sign Language. In particular, tech training is at the heart of our strategy. We keep building partnerships to fill the digital education gap.
We reframe hearing disability as a communication challenge. This approach helps to level the field enormously. We have successfully built an inclusive and barrier-free work environment. Hearing, hard-of-hearing and deaf colleagues work together at SignCoders.
For more information about SignCoders:
https://signcoders.hu (in Hungarian and English)
