We have reviewed the data of our country's statistical institutions related to disabled individuals. We see here that: • 94% of disabled people were unemployed • 62% of them expected government support • We saw that 96% of adults with disabilities has already despaired of the creation of educational opportunities for himself. Moreover, there is a goal of getting employment for the disabled in the 10-year development plan of Turkey. The institutions are supposed to work so that disabled adults can adapt themselves to social life in a peaceful and happy way. As Cihanbeyli Adult Education Center, we have courses with counseling center for disabled adults. In these courses, we are trying to prepare disabled people for their lives and get them to gain hands-on skills for employment. For this reason, we want to see our deficits in order to provide a better service in courses and trainings that we started with disabilities. Administrators and teachers in disability education will adapt themselves to Europe, develop new approaches. It will benefit the employment of disabled people. By ınteracting with different cultures we wanted to create a unity with Europe. We have done our project to make up for these shortcomings and to achieve our goals. We selected our partners in our project because they are institutions that educate adults with disabilities who are aware of their disability education. Shortly our partners; ITALY: Since 2001, there have been international projects for the handicapped. They are trying to provide economic independence of disabled people through Duoclock service. We want to see and study the application of the daily training center in our Italian project partner which we do not have. We would like to examine the implementation and follow-up of disabilities under the Stranaidea roof. In this application, studies for acquiring skills for disabled persons over the age of 14 are carried out like ours. We will also be able to see the educational contributions of the theater studies. BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA: The SEC is an organization aiming at the employment of disabled people by organizing training programs and methods according to the level of knowledge and needs of trainees. For this purpose, the SEC provides training for both disabled people and those working with these individuals. The SEC is an institution that aims lifelong learning for adults with disabilities, adult education, and provides courses for disabled people just like us. Since our aims and methods are similar to those of the SEC, we would like to review the courses and their applications in place. POLAND: The reason we chose the Joy Of Life association is that our administrators and our training staff do not have experience with severely disabilities. Poland offers social and professional rehabilitation services for groups of 5 different people with 8 different workshops. Basic activities such as preparing meals, going to work, personal hygiene are taught to disabled people. Poland will be our project partner,from whom we will benefit the most about the heaviest level of disability training. The Joy of Life Society has fully equipped technical workshops, pedagogical workshops, rehabilitation workshops, catering workshops and crafts workshops, which means that the institution has both social and vocational training and rehabilitation facilities. AUSTRIA: In recent years, OJAB has been successful in the field of disabilities. Some of these projects are: 1) Production School: It is a project that provides personal preparation and social pedagogical support for disabled people between the ages of 15 and 24 to be a business owner. 2) ELLA Project: It is a project that they have done jointly with 12 countries for the education of disabled adults. These features of our partners increase the quality of our project. We will summarize the activities of our project: 3 transnational meetings will be held. The first of these meetings will be in Turkey on the 2nd month of the project. Meeting and explaining the project will be done. The second meeting will be held in Italy in the middle of the project. General assessment will be made. The third transnational meeting will be in Bosnia. The intellectual outputs and results will be discussed. There will be 5 inter-country mobilities.These inter-country mobilities will be held respectively in Italy, Poland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey. In these parts, participants will observe their training, participate in trainings, perform qualitative and quantitative scaling. Participants will attend a number of conferences in Bosnia. At the end of our project, common intellectual output will be a book. The multiplier activities of our output will be carried out in Poland, Austria, Bosnia, Italy and Turkey respectively. The country where the multiplier activities are carried out, 8 participants in total from other countries, 40 participants from their own .......
Our Project Aim:We wanted adult educators who provide education to improve their knowledge and skills of individuals with disabilities,to improve their quality and to learn innovative practices in education of disabled people.As a result of the education and rehabilitation of disabled individuals, we wanted to learn the profession and provide employment,to sustain their lives independently,to integrate with the society and to increase their quality of life.Therefore,new models and initiatives were needed in education of the disabled and these initiatives and models should also include breaking down the prejudices of the society towards disabled individuals and creating a society sensitive to the needs and expectations of individuals with disabilities. To achieve our goal: *Our educators have learned about the workshop systems for the education of the disabled and learned how they are prepared for life and how they are employed.Contribution of physical rehabilitation and vocational therapies to education for the disabled people,training activities for the disabled to sustain their daily lives, They received technical trainings that enable them to acquire professions,artistic activities that will enable them to integrate into society,and participated in workshops. *Educators learned the role of art in gaining skills for adults with disabilities.We saw that disabled people who are directed to artistic activities adapt to society more quickly.We saw how and in what areas families with disabilities and volunteers participate in the education process for the disabled.We participated in training studies on what opportunities are provided to individuals with disabilities and how long they had gained social adaptation skills.We had gains regarding the daily life skills and employment of individuals with disabilities. *We learned the difficulties in the education of refugee and immigrant disabled individuals.We participated in the studies for the solution of the problems of adaptation to the society in which they are located.We learned the marketing system of products produced by disabled people.We provided training on methods and techniques that can be applied in preparing individuals with disabilities for business life. *We worked on how people with disabilities can be employed and what kind of courses can be opened in this field.During our project,we examined good examples in the employment of disabled people and learned the processes they had undergone.Characteristics of teachers providing education with disabilities, the role of institutions in employment, innovative approaches to education of disabled people were important for us. We received trainings on national and international legal rights of individuals with disabilities. Project Meetings: We held 3 national meetings during the project.The first project meeting was held in Turkey.The aims of the project,the duties of the countries and the budget of the project were explained.The second meeting was held in Italy in the middle of the project.General evaluation was made in this meeting.The third transnational meeting was held in Bosnia. Project studies were evaluated.The duties of countries for the our intellectual output had been announced. Learning, Teaching and Training Activities: LTT studies were carried out in 5 different countries.Our project participants became trainers and managers of adult centers with disabilities. Mobility subjects between these countries are as follows: Poland:Studies on workshop systems Italy:The impact of art on education for the disabled Izmir-Turkey:The education of disabled migrants and refugees, and marketing of products produced by the disabled Bosnia and Herzegovina:Training of teachers with disabilities education Konya-Turkey:Evaluation of work for the project results and intellectual output. Intellectual Output: The our intellectual output of the project was made in CIHEM management in the languages of the partners and in English.In our book,the methods and technics applied by our partners who provide training for the disabled were analyzed. As a result of the qualitative and quantitative studies we conducted in the countries of our partners who provide disabled education. In our book,we decided to develop the workshop system as an innovative, joint education model with our partners.We compared different cultures and approaches in education of the disabled.Our book became a product of our LTT studies. Multiplier Events: Countries participated in Multiplier Events.At least 56 people from each country participated in these events.At these meetings,the participants were introduced and distributed our intellectual output.We have explained at that events;The methods and technics applied in the EU countries that provided training to the participants and the disabled,the successful applications and methods of the countries in the education of the disabled,the legal rights of the disabled in the Europe.