With financial support of the European Commission under the Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity (PROGRESS), EBU conducted in 2008 a programme of activity : "Partnership for the social inclusion of people with a visual impairment".The programme focuses on five key areas : the UN Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities, Employment, Access to Technology, Education and Capacity Building, and Communication.

Activities include :

• The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities :
  Development of a legislative database to support the effective implementation of the Convention in areas that are relevant to visually impaired people’s rights. Visit the Database Web Page
  
• Employment :
  Fact finding visits to survey the situation of visually impaired people’s access to the open labour market and the supported employment sector in EBU member countries.
  
• Access to Technology :
  Study on the accessibility of household appliances.
  
• Education:
  Survey on the education and vocational training of visually impaired women. Visit the Questionnaire Web Page

• Capacity Building:
  Capacity building seminars for visually impaired women.
  Results and conclusions of the  Equality and Diversity in the EBU questionnaire
  
• Communication:
  Voicing the issues affecting visually impaired Europeans through 6 Newsletters and a Video. Visit the Newsletter Index Page and watch the Video