THINK - Towards Handicap Integration Negotiation Knowledge

Summary

Abstract:

THINK – Towards Handicap Integration Negotiating Knowledge – is a project that, taking into account the difficulties of the physically handicapped, using the methods made available by the new Information and Communication Technologies – and, inherently, through telework – aims to develop their capabilities in this area, helping them to market their services and aiding them in this way to achieve full professional integration.

The main objective of this project on the short/medium term consists in the professional integration of twenty handicapped in the first two years, making them productive, profitable and self-sufficient in areas such as accounting, translations, word processing, programming and technical assistance to computer systems, amongst others.

This employment project, started on April 1^st 1997, has a unique feature of being promoted by a consortium of private companies, without public financing.

It is within the consortium’s plans to expand into other European countries using the same techniques proven and tested in Portugal.

The experience of the project THINK/ PORCIDE, due to its originality and its employment potential, linking the usage of the features of the Information Society with the social-professional integration of citizens suffering from a handicap, is an exemplary practice regarding the capacity of marshalling and self-organisation of the Civil Society with the aim of the creation of work and employment posts with a future.

Participants:

TELEMANutenção – Project leader and provider of the know-how

Portugal Telecom - Telecommunication infrastructures

Telepac - Internet communications

Microsoft Portugal - Software

Hewlett Packard Portugal - Hardware

Edson Comunicações - Advertising and Marketing

Target Groups:

Disabled people, less than 40 years old with university background.