Projektart: Gefördertes Projekt
Projekt Digitale Unterstützung der beruflichen Eingliederung gehörloser Menschen

The project supports the participation in working life and communication of deaf people in the labor market. The aim of the project is to promote the integration of severely disabled people into the labor market and vocational training. To this end, various digital aids are being developed, in particular a digital specialist sign language dictionary Sign4All with several thousand signs in German Sign Language. (https://digitale-unterstuetzung-gehoerloser-menschen.de/ and https://sign4all.de/ ) The project is funded as a joint project by the BMAS Equalization Fund from 2021 to 2025. The project network is led by Malt| Harms GmbH with its locations in Bremen/Hamburg and Fulda. Other project partners are the Landshut University of Applied Sciences Prof. Dr. Fries, the Hamburg software company Open Mind Software GmbH, the Fortbildungsakademie der Wirtschaft (FAW) and the Hamburg software company Workplace Solutions GmbH. Significant parts of the current project work are carried out according to the principles of agile project work. Eight deaf scientists and IT specialists are currently also working on the project, including two as heads of sub-projects (IT sub-project and sign language sub-project) The project's direct communication with the deaf community via annual conferences and workshops should be emphasized. (https://digitale-unterstuetzung-gehoerloser-menschen.de/planung-fachtagung-2024/ and https://digitale-unterstuetzung-gehoerloser-menschen.de/fachtagungen/ ) The collection of professional sign language is carried out in partnerships with companies and vocational training institutions. (Airbus Hamburg, Mercedes Benz Werk Düsseldorf, H& M Inclusion Officer, WfbM Pfennigparade Munich, BAG der Berufsbildungswerke and individual vocational training centers) The internal cooperation of the project is essentially based on cooperation with the respective representatives for the severely disabled. The project team also includes two former representatives of the severely disabled, Alfons Adam and Thomas Heinemann, who work as senior consultants. The project runs targeted advertising campaigns and publications in the field of science, with DGS interpreters, the IFD and EUTBs as well as other institutions such as rehabilitation providers, integration offices and associations. Employers are also to be reached through publications in the mainstream daily press (FAZ, Die Welt, Die Zeit, Handelsblatt). The project assumes that the provision of professional sign language will significantly support access to jobs for deaf people. In addition to the digital sign language lexicon, other digital-based aids are also offered: the search for unknown sign language in the lexicon ("sign language search") and special written language courses for deaf people using the "contrastive teaching method". A vocabulary trainer for learning individually unknown technical signs is currently being developed.