World is one step away from entering a new reality, where human potential is main agent that stimulates economic&social growth and inclusive communities. These can not afford to waste resources. Disabled adults have major potential as society members, but also as change agents. This necessitates creation&implementation of quality, relevant adult education activities that respond to needs, interests&abilities of them. Inclusion requires adapting adult education to meet this potential of disabled people. The environment, teaching&learning, adult education providers are systematically to be changed to remove barriers to learners with disabilities, so that they can maximise their achievements. NGOs both of&for persons with disabilities, adult education&employment services and other institutional actors in this area reinfoce as a main NEED a shortage of educators&support staff preparation to support INCLUSIVE education&PERSONALIZED learning. Also all project partners are facing challenging contexts related to adult learners with disabilities (where traditional pedagogy is no longer relevant or inclusive) and have common needs: educators&support staff need flexible competences as well as a portfolio of effective pedagogical practices, methods and tools to support, involve and stimulate disabled adults. AIM To stimulate a multidisciplinary&collaborative framework which supports increasing the quality of adult education practitioners work and their initiatives&services in order to be adapted to needs of adults with disabilities in the light of UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - UNCRPD. Among many measures, Convention calls for non‐discrimination&inclusion to promote access to training&employment. Objectives O1 Equiping educators, trainers, HR managers, other experts with proper competences&at least 9 practical resources&tools for innovatively create adult education settings that support disabled adults in progressing towards higher qualifications and in their society&labor market inclusion in 5 countires/at european level. O2 Empowering bridges between education&training world and work world based on a closer cooperation among adult education providers, enterprises, public authorities, other kind of stakeholders for high quality inclusion of disabled persons. Target groups addressed - educators, trainers, training&HR managers, coordinators, vocational counselors, social workers, mentors, other experts to acquire new abilities&attitudes; new creative and inclusive capabilities and practices of transforming adult education and support offers&services according to needs of people with disabilities to improve access, participation and learning outcomes of them. - NGOs both of&for persons with disabilities; adult education&employment services providers to take a flexible view when developing strategies and models to support inclusion of people with disabilities through education, employment&social entrepreneurship. - policy players, employment agencies, employers, public authorities to actively involve them in creating a strong foundation for relevant disabled adult education strategies in a wider context of market labour. The core results are 5 complex IOs: a) IO1 ”ALL IN” virtual resources bank with 5 practical resources as OERs: 1. ”Design Thinking Human-Centered” guide; 2. ”Inclusion Needs Analysis; 3. ”Empathy. Emotional&Social Intelligence Educator’s Friend”; 4. Guidelines on different intelligences and learning styles; 5. ”ImPACT for Disabled Adult Education”. b) IO2 ”READY for LABOUR MARKET” (RLM) as a support manual for educators, mentors, vocational counselors with 2 elements: - Ready4Soft Skills - Ready4Social Entrepreneurship c) IO3 - boardgame READY4Impact as innovative pedagogical online game to be used by educators/mentors in their work with disabled adults for practical learning of starting a social enterprise d) IO4 HR Disability Tool - virtual collection of examples, practices on people with disabilities using assistive technology for success&productivity in education&employment settings. e) IO5 – A Manifesto ”Help practitioners to succeed in achieving inclusive adult education” - as Policy Recommendations Paper. Whole project Outcome - it provides resources for high quality individualized inclusive learning that could be adapted to people at risk – also to different groups with fewer opportunities other than people with disabilities. The project has a duration of 36 months and it runs from 2018 till 2021. FAR - The Federation for Accessibility of Romania is the applicant and lead partner. The consortium consists of: National Confederation of Disabled People (NCDP), Greece; French Council of People with Disabilities for European Issues (CFHE), France; Association of Consultants and Experts on Social Economy Romania; CESUR – CENTRO SUPERIOR DE FORMACION EUROPA SUR CESUR, Spain; European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities. (EASPD), Belgium.
The world has already entered a new reality, in which human potential is the main agent that stimulates economic and social growth and inclusive communities. Adults with disabilities have a major potential as members of society, but also as agents of change. Inclusion requires the adaptation of adult education to meet this potential of people with disabilities. The environment, teaching and learning, adult education providers will be systematically changed to remove barriers to students with disabilities so that they can maximize their achievements. NGOs with and for people with disabilities, adult education and employment services and other institutional actors in this field face a major NEED - the lack of educators and the training of support staff to support INCLUSIVE education and PERSONALIZED learning. Project partners have constantly faced challenging contexts related to adult learners with disabilities (where traditional pedagogy is no longer relevant or inclusive) and have common needs: educators and support staff need flexible skills as well as a portfolio. of effective pedagogical practices, methods and tools to support, involve and stimulate adults with disabilities. In addition, reports, research, studies in the field (and during the 2 years) were consulted which showed that it is essential that strategies and practices be individualized and respond to the specifics of students regardless of their deficiencies and regardless of their abilities. AIM project The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - UNCRPD is the most important legal, multidisciplinary and collaborative framework that supports increasing the quality of work of adult education practitioners and their initiatives and services to adapt to the needs of adults with disabilities, addressing non-discrimination and inclusion. promotes access to training and employment. Specific objectives -9 Intellectual Resources created in the project were O1 In activity O1 / A4: The development of "ALL IN" as a virtual bank of resources, contains 5 practical resources (OER) based on INTERDISCIPLINARITY to increase the quality of initiatives and services of educators and other practitioners in adult education to be highly adapted to the needs specific needs of adults with disabilities. 1. Resource 1: Human-centered design (DT) thinking guide. 2. "Inclusion needs analysis" (training and development). 3. “Empathy. Emotional & Social Intelligence Educator’s Friend ”is a set of tools for trainers, educators, etc. 4. Practical guidelines on different intelligences and learning styles. 5. "IMPACT for the education of adults with disabilities" - partnership models and methods have been created. 6. Development of the "READY4LABOR MARKET" (RLM) as a support manual for educators, mentors, professional counselors with 2 main elements: a) READY 1 package - Ready4Soft Skills b) READY 2 Package - Ready4Social Entrepreneurship . 7. Development of a board game - READY Boardgame called “Ready4Impact” as an innovative online pedagogical game to be used by educators / mentors in their work with adults with disabilities for the practical learning of starting a social enterprise. 8. The tool was created for people with disabilities in human resources for human resources managers, career counselors, educators, work mentors, employers, etc. and jobs. It provides inspiration and guidance to adult education centers, employment agencies, companies on promoting their accessibility and inclusion policies and initiatives, especially in the light of the legislative framework of the UN Convention. 9. The Manifesto "Help Practitioners Succeed in Achieving Inclusive Adult Education" is created - as a European policy recommendation document. The target groups addressed was educators, trainers, training and human resources managers, coordinators, professional counselors, social workers, mentors, experts who have acquired new skills and attitudes, new creative and inclusive practices to provide services according to the needs of people with disabilities to improve access, participation and learning outcomes. The long-term impact of the project on the employment of people with disabilities is appreciable, because the project, through its resources, leads to the transfer of knowledge in the social field between practitioners and PWD. The main finding is that knowledge transfers have the greatest positive impact on practitioners but also PWD in both the short and long term. The impact of knowledge transfers through intellectual products developed in our project is positive, significant, while the effect of the DT guide, manual, Ready4Impact game and HR Disability Tool is already measurable, through the interest shown in these IOs in the online environment. As for Manifesto, this is a new starting point for the decisions and documents that will be developed by the European Commission, regarding overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of PWD employment.