"<< Background >>The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2006, and signed by most of the EU country establishes, in Article 27 (on work and employment), “the right of persons with disabilities to work on an equal basis with others”. This means that they should enjoy the same access to employment opportunities, remuneration and labour rights as people without disabilities. Similarly, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted by all United Nations Member States in December 2015, identifies people with disabilities as one of several groups of vulnerable people who must be empowered. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contained in the 2030 Agenda make explicit reference to disability in several labour market-related targets and their associated indicators.So, our main priority with this project is social inclusion as our target group – d/Deaf (in the scientific literature, deaf with the capital “D”; refers to those deaf people who feel a member of a linguistic and cultural community, instead of the one with the lowercase “d”; refers to those with hearing impairment but who do not feel part of the deaf community) young job seekers - is particularly vulnerable to social exclusion.In Europe-28 there are about 500,000 deaf young people. Their career aspirations do not differ from hearing youngsters. However, the obstacles that they need to overcome so that to achieve their professional goals are much bigger. There are many tools helping young people to effectively enter the labour market. Unfortunately, all or most of the mainstream resources in this field, are not accessible to d/Deaf young: as example texts do not meet their reading requirements, videos are not subtitled or translated into Sign Language, tools and other resources are inappropriate or inaccessible, mainstream support services, career counsellors, mentors, trainers, and youth worker have little or no experience with d/Deaf people. Our project is directed to young d/Deaf people, and to youth worker who works or would wish to work with d/Deaf young people. We would also like our project to have an influence on the people from the environment of young d/Deaf people and show them that it is worth supporting Deaf person in his/her professional aspirations.<< Objectives >>MAKE IT WORK project will develop project results - tools and training materials - designed to provide access to employment regulations in an inclusive and accessible way for d/Deaf young job seekers. With the products of the project, d/Deaf young job seekers will be able to access employment information in sign language and accessible written form to use in their daily working lives. So, they will have digital resources in sign language at their fingertips which they can refer to in their own time, replay and repeat, consult without outside help - in other words, they can use the project outputs to exercise self-determination in their employment relationships and working lives. At the same time, provide training and materials for a youth worker to give them the instrument to support the social and professional inclusion of the young d/Deaf job seeker. This is empowerment.We plan to do it by:1. developing a set of tools helping and guiding young d/Deaf job seeker in the process of entering the labour market (translated into their languages).2. giving young d/Deaf job seeker information about how to define what skills and competencies they already have, and about how and where they can improve them.3. giving young d/Deaf job seeker information about which skills and competencies are mostly required at the labour market.4. giving tools and instructions to youth worker about how to empower young d/Deaf job seeker and support them on their professional inclusion.5. encouraging career counsellors to reach Deaf young people and help them to enter the labour market effectively.<< Implementation >>• Communication via project management tool and skype (at least 4 meetings per year) • Establishing and maintaining the project office. This will be the centre of project management and administration, the place of collecting all documents connected with project implementation.• Hiring project administrative staff. There will be one project manager, who will be responsible for all administrative and management issues related to project management (at the level of organization and at the level of the whole Consortium). In each partner organization, there will be one administrative officer, who will be responsible for the administrative side of the implementation of the project in their organization.• Preparation of all necessary project documents: contracts with project partners, reporting templates;• Development of a Project Management Plan (main management document containing all rules which will be followed during implementation of the project – managerial, financial, quality assurance, the definition of roles of each partner, time management), setting out duties and responsibilities of each partner organization;• Setting up a financial plan (which is a part of project management plan), clear to all partners, which points out: payment schedules, necessary financial documents, and other issues related to project finances;• Settling deadlines and milestones – establishing a pattern that helps to achieve goals on time, as well as ongoing monitoring of the implementation of these (detailed Action Plan containing division of big tasks into small ones and timelines for each small task).• Skype management meetings (1-2 representatives of each partner institution – regular review on progress within the project, ongoing evaluation, minimizing the risk of non-achieving project goals).• Project Leader: monitoring project activities, monitoring work of partner organizations, project management• Project partners: coordinating fulfilling obligations assigned to each partner in a bilateral agreement,• Costs are related to project management and administration (salaries of staff, office costs, etc.• 20 (4 per partner) half-yearly reports (both narrative and financial) • 20 (4 per partner) half-yearly quality reports • 20 (4 per partner) half-yearly dissemination reports • 20 (4 per partner) feedback questionnaires - there are completed after each TNM • 5 sustainability reports (1 per partner)• 5 final reports (1 per partner) • 3 Project Results• 5 MEs• 2 Learning Teaching Activities• 4 TPMs<< Results >>MAKE IT WORK project will have 3 mains projects results: First project result: ""Analysis and Abstract"" This first product will be a digital survey (video in sign language with subtitles), analysis and transnational report (or abstract) to ascertain attitudes and knowledge levels regarding employment regulations among young d/Deaf job seekers. Second project results: ""E-accessible Toolkit""This package will be a set of materials for young d/Deaf job seekers. These materials will contain basic information (considering the specificity of the group, which is young d/Deaf job seekers) about how to define their strong sides (what skills and competencies do they already have), how to decide where they want to work, how to look for a job (and where), how to prepare application document, how to act during the interview, basic information about what to be aware of starting a new job. We will also add information about what soft skills and competencies are nowadays mostly wanted by employers from different sectors, and where young d/Deaf job seekers can find courses helping to improve these skills. These materials will be available in the form of publication and short videos. The whole materials will be translated into the sign languages of partner countries.In the framework of this package, training involving young d/Deaf job seekers will be organized.Third project results: “Breaking the sound barrier: Supporting deaf young people with careers guidance”.This will be a set of guidelines for youth worker – about how to empower young d/Deaf job seekers for their socio-professional inclusion. This will be publication available in English and languages of partners with summarizing in sign language. In this publication, we would like to show youth worker that fruitful work with young d/Deaf job seekers people is possible (even if they do not know sign language) but should be different than with hearing young people (not necessarily harder). And at the same time, this work can be satisfying and give impressive results – if only it is done considering the specificity of young d/Deaf job seekers and respecting their needs. We want to give them practical instructions about how to reach young d/Deaf job seekers, how to work with them, how to help them to increase their chances to enter the labour market."