The Association for Persons with Disabilities, Belgrade (UOSI), organized the conference “Empowered, We Can Move Forward” in the municipality of Voždovac. The conference was attended by representatives from the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans’ Affairs, and Social Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, the National Employment Service, the municipality of Voždovac, associations of persons with disabilities, the Regional Agency for Development and European Integration Belgrade, and the Institute of Economic Sciences from Belgrade.
The organizer of the event, UOSI, is a partner in implementing an inclusive scientific project titled “Empowering Persons with Physical Disabilities for Remote Work through Improving Digital Marketing Competencies” (DI-MARC).
Representatives from the Regional Agency for Development and European Integration Belgrade, Ljiljana Marković and Sonja Manojlović, attended the conference, while Aida Hanić represented the Institute of Economic Sciences.
Ljiljana Marković, as one of the moderators of the meeting, presented the DI-MARC project, which will be implemented with the support of the European Commission and the European Social Fund, during the period 2023-2025. She pointed out that the project focuses on the implementation of digital technologies in the function of improving inclusion, i.e. improving the digital marketing skills of people with physical disabilities for remote work, but also on the creation of educational programs that can be applied to improve digital marketing skills and other vulnerable populations.
