[Video in Spanish] “In sign language”, a spanish TV programme addressed to persons with hearing disability, emitted a report about the FIAPAS 2017 prizes. The report dedicates a few minutes to the awarded work in which some members of TARGEAR participated.

This exhibition at the Spanish National Library commemorates the tenth anniversary of the law governing Spanish sign languages and support for communication by the deaf, deaf-blind, and hearing impaired.

[Spanish] La Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) en Madrid acogerá hasta el 1 de octubre la exposición ‘Manos con voz propia. Quinientos años de lengua de signos’, muestra de la Confederación Estatal de Personas Sordas (CNSE), miembro de Somos Pacientes, en la que se recorren los más de cuatro siglos de lengua de signos en nuestro país.

[hear-it.org] Only a minority of the Americans who shoot guns regularly use hearing protection, a study finds. People who use firearms without hearing protection risk their hearing.

[Spanish] El último informe anual registra 491.000 usos de ratones y solo 896 de perros y 361 de gatos.

The next EU research funding programme should be doubled in size to help fix Europe’s growth problems, according to former World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy, who is chairing a group of experts selected by the European Commission to analyse which changes to make after the current programme expires in 2020.

Fear of investing in innovation is preventing promising start-ups from reaching their full potential and that’s preventing growth across Europe, a conference on the future of EU research funding heard.