This project is based on transnational cooperation of educational training centers, companies and non-profit organizations, as a way to support the acquisition of specific and general skills that foster entrepreneurship of a group of people that besides of problems inherent in their physical or mental condition have to face with general problems of young people in all Europe, as such as, high unemployment rates, social exclusion risk, dropout, etc. It is the collective of disabled people. The general objective is to foster the social and workplace integration of people with disabilities by means of supporting and assisting them during their entrepreneurship journey. Specifically to provide entrepreneurs with the necessary specific knowledge for a start-up or a business acceleration ; to offer support by means of mentorship with expert professionals that participate as volunteers (They are workers of large companies or multinational companies ), to boost networking opportunities among the academic field, businesses and all the entrepreneurs; to increase their employability and to help remove barriers and discrimination attitudes of the society with this collective in terms of opportunities of employment. All the objectives of the project are related with the targets of Erasmus + Program, with ET 2020 The data show that an alarming % of the total population in Europe is in risk of exclusion. In 2011, about 31 % of the population aged 16 or more in the EU-28 and having an activity limitation was at risk of poverty or social exclusion, compared with 21 % of those with no limitation With regard to people with disabilities, their employment rates are clearly below the average due to many different obstacles. There is a general perception that they will be less efficient, less productive and, in general, less “able” to perform if compared to the general population. However, an outstanding quantity of disabled people has proven to possess a huge source of talent, as well as high commitment, bravery, empathy and ambition, all of them absolutely necessary to start successful and sustainable businesses. The transnational dimension is required because the knowledge of diverse policies, actions or activities will enrich the project and will allow designing the best tools to this collective. The situation is diverse around Europe, there are countries with a good development of policies to facilitate the employment as entrepreneurs in disable people and others countries (as some partners of this project) with a low development of them. So the transnationality and transference of knowledges will be essential to reach the objectives of the project. The expected results of the project are to contribute to the awareness of success experiences in supporting disabled entrepreneurs,to promote transnational cooperation between different sectors, organisations of the educational and business world (tutors) in an area of particular sensitivity,to help in the profession improvement of the beneficiaries and to contribute to increasing the motivation and autonomy of the entrepreneurs by overcoming the barriers on access to the jobs market In the long term the potential impact expected is to contribute to the elimination of the barriers on access to the jobs market , to promote and support entrepreneurship among this group of the population, to raise awareness of its capacities and to increase its rates of employment It is foreseen aprox. 3.000 participants direct and indirect in the project : 48 entrepreneur/students (disabled) 16 tutors will participate in the activities of the project 192 people .Families of each entrepreneur. 30Entities aimed at employing the disabled 20Large national and multinational companies 30 volunteers (awareness raising and information/training on the disabled): 20 Public and private universities 1500 Recipients of iformation, visitors website The partners are PREVENT Foundation. Spain LIBER.. Spain CONSORZIO IES. Italy Foundation Aktywizacja".Poland MINA DE TALENT. France A participative methodology will be used to perform the project. All partners will participate in the whole project, but every WP will have an entity that will be responsible for defining a common working methodology for all partners and the technical coordination of this WP. The work programme will be formed by the following activities: WP1. Coordination and management WP 2. Identification of Good practices WP 3. Development of methodologies and training material WP 4. Pilot project: WP.5. Apprentice Validation Europass As result of the projects will be elaborated the following intelectual outputs Analysis of European Good Practices in entrepreneurship for people with disabilities Training methodology and materials for entrepreneurship Transversal training methodology and materials Guide to work systems and accompaniment activities Process for validating the training for disabled entr DURATION. 24 months
Creating Leaders for the Future" (CL) is part of the Key Action for Cooperation in Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices of the Erasmus + Program: Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education (KA204). People with disabilities in working age represent 16% of European citizens. They are a source of talent and a fundamental cog in the development of Europe. However, their risk of poverty is alarmingly higher than that one of other citizens: 21.1% compared to 14.9% of the rest of the population, largely because of their exclusion from the labor market (Greve, 2009; Hauben et al., 2012). The 2020 Strategy of the European Union wants to promote the participation of people with disabilities in society and in economy. Therefore, it contemplates ways and tools for the creation of a fully inclusive society. The project is based on available data regarding disability, entrepreneurial ecosystems and the current state of entrepreneurship in Europe. Namely, among the most outstanding data, we should highlight: - People with disability face specific barriers in entrepreneurship activities - Entrepreneurship represents an interesting job inclusion option for this group of citizens - Training in entrepreneurship is not always thought taking into account the needs of people with disability - Entrepreneurial ecosystems are fundamentally systems of interaction formed by multiple actors - Small enterprises account for 99% of all EU companies The general objective of the CL project is to design a route for the promotion of entrepreneurship in people with disabilities, based on the detection, identification and analysis of unmet needs and gaps in the offer of training in the field of self-employment and entrepreneurship. It aims at: 1. Providing entrepreneurs with knowledge in business 2. Getting to know mechanisms for accompaniment through mentoring 3. Facilitating a networking space between the academic, business and entrepreneurs 4. Promoting the full socio-labor integration of beneficiaries The consortium created for CL was formed by 5 European entities, whose areas of action are complementary and synergistic: Spain and Poland as experts in disability, social and labor inclusion, training for employment of adults; France as an expert in entrepreneurship, social and solidarity economy; Italy as an expert in European cooperation for the territories. The project carried out the following activities: • Elaboration of questionnaires for entrepreneurs with disabilities and administration to 149 participants • Elaboration of analysis sheet of good practices for public and private entities, related to the promotion of entrepreneurship and administration to 20 participants • Collection, analysis of results and preparation of final reports • Elaboration of draft guidelines for the implementation of entrepreneurship promotion actions in people with disabilities, aimed at public and private entities operating in the field of labor inclusion and the promotion of self-employment • Organization of 5 focus groups for the validation of contents and methodology • Design, layout and publication of final guides (intellectual outputs) • Dissemination: Creation of a specific web page; Online publication, and sending to partners' databases of 6 newsletters; Creation of informative brochure; Creation of profiles in social networks (Facebook and Twitter); Participation in media (press releases, radio programs); Presentations of the Project; 1 multiplier event in all participating countries The results of the work carried out have been 2 guides to train entities in the design of a new and improved training model for entrepreneurship, aimed at guaranteeing equal opportunity in self-employment and entrepreneurship for people with disabilities, and using a practical, simple and flexible methodology: the "Guide to contents and methodology for training in inclusive entrepreneurship for disability. Ecosystem to promote entrepreneurship among people with disabilities"' and the "Guide to inclusive activities to support entrepreneurship training for people with disabilities. The ecosystem to promote entrepreneurship among people with disabilities". In addition, the Project has generated: - the Report "European Experiences in Entrepreneurship for Persons with Disabilities: Analysis and Report of Key Findings" -a "Questionnaire for entrepreneurs" -a report on the main results of the Focus Groups Among the long-term benefits we should highlight: • mutual knowledge between complementary European entities and new joint collaborations outside the CL project • for the participating professionals, improvement of the technical training (knowledge), competency (work with transnational teams and languages) and curricular skills • improving the positioning of entities acting in each country, thus reinforcing their social and economic territorial impact