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Vilnius, February 1. A social video project “Towards Work” of the National Deaf People Rehabilitation Center has won the nomination in the RegioStars 2013 Awards organised by the European Commission.

The objective of the RegioStars Awards is to identify good practices in regional development and to highlight original and innovative projects which could be attractive and inspiring to other regions. The social project “Towards Work – development of mediation services in recruiting people with hearing disabilities” has won the RegioStars 2013 award in communication category “Promoting EU regional policy with short videos”.

The videos "Towards Work" are targeting hearing society and employers encouraging them to discover deaf people and potential employees. Deaf people are a part of the audible society – they are able to work and create. Every deaf person is different, has it’s own ideas, dreams, habits, profession, interests. One of the main objectives of the project was to achieve that potential employers would evaluate inaudible people’s abilities and possibilities of being useful in labour market. Over 600 people with hearing disorders were participating in the project of the Republican Rehabilitation Centre of the Deaf and more than 400 have been employed.

This is the third time the representatives of Lithuania win the RegioStars awards. Previously the awards were granted for the project “Computer Literacy Basics for Lithuanian E-citizen” implemented by Association Langas į ateitį (A Window to the Future) and for EU structural assistance website www.esparama.lt, supervised by the Ministry of Finance. This website is the basic source of information on EU structural assistance to Lithuania updated on daily basis.

Ministry of Finance