The University of Nottingham has been collaborating with the NewLink Project, an information technology training scheme for unemployed adults, operating in 10 different centres across the East Midlands area of the United Kingdom. The majority of the trainees are people with a disability who, after undertaking the training , will be empowered to take an active part in a world in which their disabilities will no longer be handicaps. The fundamental innovation of the NewLink Project methodology is the establishment of two activities in parallel namely an information technology training scheme and a co-operative enterprise (offering data processing services at competitive prices to companies and organisations in the local community), which share a common resource of expertise, equipment and materials.
