The adoption by the General Assembly O.N.U. of the "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities", ratified and enforced in Italy with the law n ° 18 of 3 March 2009, undoubtedly marked a historical passage, which inspires and motivates all of us who work in the field of disability to trigger a profound change in the design and management of services. But it also makes us aware of the long road ahead of us to realize their intentions. For a disabled person it is not always easy to make those experiences that allow her to become really adult, to develop the skills and autonomy necessary to live one's life as independently as possible. The purpose of the "Moon Climbers" project is to offer a significant path in this direction, through the elaboration of four "intellectual works" (intellectual ouputs). New methodologies, courses, tools and operating practices, all interrelated in an organic way and united by the purpose of accompanying people with intellectual disabilities involved in the path towards adulthood, autonomy and self-determination, while demonstrating the validity of these innovations and promoting its diffusion on Italian and European level. FINAL RECIPIENTS: 45 people with medium or mild intellectual disabilities, aged between 18 and 35, from the countries of the three organizations involved in the project: 15 from Italy, 15 from Spain and 15 from Romania. AIMS: - Promote the adulthood, autonomy, and self-determination of people with intellectual disabilities, with a view to active contrast to institutionalization and segregation. - Promote the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, including through community-based pathways in which such persons can perceive themselves and be perceived as a resource by the community. - Promote a transformation of the approach within services for people with intellectual disabilities, with a view that aims to overcome the assistential vision to favor empowerment and active life, thus contributing to trigger virtuous processes that also lead to decrease the costs overall. EXPECTED RESULTS: FOUR INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS .: 1. DEVELOPMENT OF PEER EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. 2.TRAINING FOR ADULT LIFE 3. PEDAGOGICAL SYSTEM OF "ACTIVE LIFE" 4.STUDY ON THE INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY EXPAND AND STRENGTHENING A NETWORK OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP, at the Italian and European level, both in order to support and promote the innovations proposed in the different realities, and to create the conditions for developing and implementing new projects. Involving in this network both the direct partners of the project and the realities that will collaborate even if they are not official partners. TRE LEARNING / TEACHING / TRAINING ACTIVITIES 1. TRAINING FOR PEER EDUCATION AND TRANING FOR ADULT LIFE. 2. TRAINING OF OPERATORS ON THE SYSTEM OF WORKING LIFE AND THE INCLUSION OF PC.D. IN UNIVERSITY. 3. FINAL TESTING OF THE PROJECT WITH THE P.C.D. INVOLVED, THROUGH A MIXED, VIRTUAL AND IN PRESENCE MOBILITY. THREE TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETINGS, one in Madrid, one in Oradea, one in Turin. THREE EVENTS MULTIPLIERS, one in Oradea, one in Rimini and one in Turin.
A young person with intellectual disabilities who becomes an adult must do more to achieve their dreams than others: Living in a home, choosing with whom to live, attend university, have a job, have a sentiment relationship, etc. through the Moon Climbers project, we intended to develop and promote an innovative, effective and replicable methodological model, with the aim of supporting people with intellectual disabilities (from now on) in the process of adulthood, autonomy and self-determination, while demonstrating the validity of these innovations and promoting their dissemination at Italian and European level. The project, which started in September 2018, was due to close in September 2020 but, due to the COVID-19 emergency, it was extended until 31.05.2021, with a total duration of 33 months. Project partners were: The social cooperative Il Sogno di una Cosa (leader), the Municipality of Turin, the Prodis Foundation of Madrid and Acta Center in Oradea. ‘Action research’ was carried out, on the basis of common working protocols, and ‘methodological research’, through which the work carried out was redesigned and linked to the existing literature on the subjects covered and other similar experiences. End recipients: 45 so called intellectual (15 in each country), 50 in the second year, aged between 18 and 35. OBJECTIVES: — Promoting adulthood, autonomy and self-determination of intellectual matters, with a view to actively combating institutionalisation and segregation. — Promote the social inclusion of intellectual activities, including through pathways at Community level in which they can perceive themselves and be perceived as a resource for the community. — Promote a transformation of approach in services for so-called services, with a view to overcoming the vision of care and fostering empowerment and active life, helping to trigger effective and economically viable processes. RESULTS ACHIEVED: PREPARATION OF FOUR I.O.: 1. Development of Peer Education for people with Intellectual disabilities 2. Training for adult life 3. Pedagogical system of “Industrious life” 4. Study on the inclusion of people with Intellectual disabilities in the university BROADENING AND STRENGTHENING THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP NETWORK Construction of three L.T.T.A.: Professional training on Peer Education and Training for adulthood, Turin — October 2018. Training of professionals in the Industrious life system and on the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the University, Turin — September 2019. Final testing with people with intellectual disabilities involved (in virtual mode) December 2020 and January 2021. Construction of three T.P.M.: Madrid, December 2018 Oradea, June 2019 Virtual Mode, September 2020. Implementation of three M.E.: Rimini — November 2019 Oradea — January 2021 Turin — May 2021 in webinar mode Results, impacts, long-term benefits. In drawing up the “methodological guides”, we realised how closely the various I.Os were interlinked with each other, with the Training for adulthood as the main focus of the project. For this reason, contrary to what was established at the design stage, following a comparison with the Agency Indire, it was considered appropriate to draw up a single methodological guide, subdivided into the various chapters specific to each I.O, in order to improve their systematisation and to disseminate them more effectively. The organisations involved have been able to implement the methodological approach, project capacity and the construction of a European cooperation network. Coop. Il Sogno di una Cosa — Italy. Work is ongoing in Turin to create an innovative supply of services for living in an evolutionary way; The co-housing of the Cooperative was transformed into a Service for Autonomy, with an area dedicated to adult learning experiments. A co-design table is in place with the Municipality of Turin to include Training in the service chain in Turin, assuming in January 2022. New projects are being developed for the inclusion of ‘people with intellectual disabilities’ in the university, starting with the Spanish model (in collaboration with the University of Turin and Urbino). A discussion table was set up at national level on training for adult life, for the moment in remote mode. Prodis Foundation — Spain. In addition to introducing the Peer Education approach into their educational practices, Moon Climbers has enriched and consolidated the Promentor University Master’s degree (currently 27 other Spanish universities have decided to replicate the model of the U.A.M.). ACTA Center — Romania Romania has promoted a change of perspective of family and society on the real possibilities of participating young people, leading to significant changes in the lives of some of them. Two of them found a job.