“Development of teaching materials for vocational education of deaf people in HORECA sector” is a strategic partnership project implemented by partners from three countries: Poland, Hungary and Greece. The partnership is composed of institutions supporting the deaf people, training institutions of international scope and employers from the HORECA sector. The project objective is a translational cooperation in the field of improving the quality of vocational education of deaf people in the hotel-restaurant-catering (HORECA) industry. Thank to exchange of best practices between partners from three countries solutions supporting deaf people to prepare for starting employment in this industry will be developed. During the 36 months of project implementation, following results will be developed:1.Training courses for deaf person in the workplace in the hotel and gastronomy sector. Training courses will be dedicated to people who want to start working in various professions within the HORECA sector. Courses prepared in a form of movies and scenes recorded and translated into national sign languages of the partnership – e-learning trainings are a very successful form of training in this target group. Thy will also be very helpful for:-employers, who can on their own train potential employees,-deaf people, who can on their own increase their competences,-teachers of profession, to use as an additional teaching material. 2. The thematic dictionary will include basic expressions recorded in the sign language that are necessary for communication between the deaf employee and the hearing part of the team at work. The dictionary will focus on vocabulary used in works performed in HORECA sector. It will be prepared in spoken and sign languages of each project partner. The dictionary will be useful for deaf people, their managers and colleagues for maintaining proper communication at work. The dictionary will also be useful for teachers at vocational schools preparing to work in gastronomy and hotel sector as it will allow for better and more professional preparation of deaf students to work in HORECA sector.3. Deaf at work - the manual for employers from HORECA sector who intend to hire a deaf person. The manual will include among all, characteristics of the deaf society, strong points of deaf employees, any potential problematic points, preparation of team members and advices for selecting places for employment of the dead people. Manual will also have potential for using in other sectors after small modifications.Implementation of the project will impact a min. of 1500 representatives of the following target and stakeholders groups: - The deaf people, who will get first ever chance of real vocational and practical preparation to work in the profession they are theoretically educated for in their schools.- The employers of the HORECA sector, who will get practical teaching materials which on one hand will increase the level of their and their employees’ knowledge about cooperation with a deaf employee, but on the other will provide them ready teaching movies and a dictionary allowing better allocation of a new employee, teaching his/her obligations and helping to avoid problematic situations.- Educational institutions (including schools, vocational education centers, specialist training institutions) who will gain access to professionally prepared teaching and training materials allowing preparation of workforce (primarily, but not only the deaf people) to work in numerous professions of the HORECA sector.- Participating organisations, as primarily the exchange of knowledge and experiences will allow increasing qualifications and competences of people employed in these organisations.- Other organisations working in the field of employment or activation of deaf people or people with disabilities in generally, who will have access to high quality manuals, training courses and dictionary and will be able to use them in their future work for different projects and target groups.- General public who will increase the level of knowledge, understanding of deaf people and their culture. This will allow inclusion of deaf people and building a better European society of tomorrow.Dissemination of project results on local, regional, national and international levels includes activities through project website (also translated into the sign language for accessibility of deaf people), partners’ websites, Facebook profiles, personal meetings, dissemination seminars/workshops organized by each partner and dissemination conference in. Additional channels of disseminating information are contacting regional, national and international institutions supporting people with disabilities (e.g. Ombudsman for People with Disabilities, Deaf Unions).
“Development of teaching materials for vocational education of deaf people in HORECA sector” is a strategic partnership project implemented by partners from three countries: Poland, Hungary and Greece. The partnership is composed of institutions supporting the deaf people, training institutions of international scope and employers from the HORECA sector. The project objective is a translational cooperation in the field of improving the quality of vocational education of deaf people in the hotel-restaurant-catering (HORECA) industry. Thank to exchange of best practices between partners from three countries solutions supporting deaf people to prepare for starting employment in this industry were developed. During the project implementation, following results were developed: 1. Training courses for deaf person in the workplace in the hotel and gastronomy sector for 10 professions selected in terms of adequacy for deaf people. Training courses are dedicated to deaf people who want to start working in the following professions: barista, bartender, waiter, chef, confectioner, gardener, baker, technical, porter, maid. A package consisting of a syllabus (training program compliant with the European Training Framework), description of the profession and a set of instructional videos has been developed for each of the professions. Instructional videos consisting of a sequence of scenes related to tasks performed in a given profession are translated into the national sign languages of the partner countries and contain subtitles and a voice-over recording in a given language. The films are available in Polish, Hungarian and Greek. Developed materials are useful for: - employers who can use it to train potential employees - deaf people who want to improve their skills on their own initiative - vocational teachers - as an additional teaching tool. 2. Thematic dictionaries include basic expressions recorded in sign language that are necessary for communication at work between a deaf employee and the hearing part of the team. The dictionaries are prepared in the national languages of the Partners (spoken and sign language with additional inscriptions). Dictionaries include vocabulary used in works in the area of the 10 professions from the HORECA sector. They are useful for deaf people, their managers and colleagues, to support communication at work. They are also useful for teachers from vocational school because they help them better prepare deaf students to work in the HORECA sector. 3. Deaf at work - the manual for employers from HORECA sector who intend to hire a deaf person. The manual contains the characteristics of deaf people, strengths of deaf employees, possible problem points, instructions how to prepare team members to work with deaf he manual for employers from HORECA sector who intend to hire a deaf colleague. Vademecum can be used after minor modifications also in other industries where deaf people are employed. The manual has been prepared in a shortened version (containing the most important information) and a full version (dedicated to people who want to explore the topic). All developed project results in Polish can be found and downloaded free of charge from the Leader's website: http://dobrekadry.pl/wszystkie-zawody/ Materials in Greek: http://isdec.eu/ Materials in Hungarian: http://munkakoralap.hu/programok/erasmus-plus/tananyag-fejlesztes-hallasserultek-szamara-a-horeca-szektorban/online-szakmai-szotar/ Dissemination activities carried out in the project and research on the impact of the project allow to identify the following groups of stakeholders of its results: - Deaf and hard of hearing – who get first ever chance of real vocational and practical preparation to work in the profession they are theoretically educated for in their schools - The employers of the HORECA sector, who get practical teaching materials which on one hand increase the level of their and their employees’ knowledge about cooperation with a deaf employee, but on the other hand provide them instructional movies and a dictionaries allowing better allocation of a new employee, and helping to avoid problematic situations. - Educational institutions (schools, vocational education centers, training institutions) who gain access to professionally prepared teaching materials allowing preparation of workforce to work in 10 professions of the HORECA sector. - Participating organizations - exchange of knowledge and experiences certainly increased qualifications and competences of people employed in these organizations. - Other organisations working in the field of employment or activation of deaf people or people with disabilities in generally, who get access to high quality manuals, training courses and dictionary and thanks to that are able to use them in their work for different target groups. - General public - increase the level of knowledge, understanding of deaf people and their culture. This allow inclusion of deaf people.