In 2000, Deafax, together with 8 other organisations from the Czech Republic, Belgium and Austria set up a project called "The Internet as a Potential Source of New Employment Possibilities for the Deaf" which was funded, under the Leonardo initiative, by the European Union.

The main aims of the project were to develop methods and skills to enable deaf people throughout Europe to use the Internet and e-mail to improve their employment prospects.

The partners were developing courses in their respective national languages and English on computer and Internet literacy, the basis of typography and web page design.

The target groups for this project were school leavers in the partner countries.

Deafax gathered together a team of deaf people with educational knowledge and skills to evaluate the courses which were formulated by the European partners.