The EU.CAP project focuses on improving equality of opportunity by improving the employability and active participation of people with mild disabilities in the mainstream economy. The target audience is: 1. persons under 30 years of age with mild intellectual disabilities, physical and / or sensory disabilities, who are likely to fit into a traditional work environment with (possibly) slight adaptations in situ (mobility, workplace, technologies) adapted ...). This is the priority target audience. 2. social workers wishing to be trained in the use of a socio-educational tool for the target audience 1 EU.CAP aims to improve the professional profile of people with disabilities and their suitability for the job market. It aims for long-lasting benefits for individuals and partner organizations by developing an integration model based on the good practices detected in the employability of risk groups. The best practices selected will be integrated into the socio-pedagogical tool that will promote quality and excellence. EU.CAP wishes to promote and develop with its priority target audience skills (know-how) and integration skills (know-how) in the workplace by combining observation courses, training and employment. It will be a process of maximum 15 months managed as part of a specialized job coaching. A specific methodological tool will be built in four stages: 1: Identify good practices in the area of employability of people with low mobility in the Member States 2: Check the timeliness and feasibility of transferring good practices. 3: Develop, test and implement a methodological tool of coaching specialized in various sectors of activity. This methodological tool will have but for: - Help the person with a disability, their profile, their professional profile, their need for training and / or the most effective way job market; - to facilitate support for socio-professional integration in companies by specializing the job coach in the realities of disability: articulate the learning time, the collective life time and the individual steps for the trainee to the evolution 'insert socially, to discover concretely a job, to become familiar with the realities of professional life and, finally, to gain access to employment. 4: Organizer of a pilot training for 12 social workers wishing to specialize in the professional integration of people with disabilities. At the end of the project, a repository of training and skills will be freely available to professionals of integration and disability. A series of policy actions will then be sensitized to States and civil society on the issue of employment of people with mild disabilities.
The general objective of the EU CAP project is : - To improve the autonomy of people with mild disabilities, through support towards socio-professional integration in companies. The project was carried out with the general missions of: - Highlighting and learn from good practices in Europe and in particular in the countries of the consortium in order to favour the long-term socio-professional integration of people with disabilities; - Increasing the competences of job coaches wishing to train in the support of people with disabilities through the creation, experimentation and dissemination of a training and competences reference system; - Increasing the attention of public and private, regional, national and European institutions to the barriers that limit the access and/or the sustainability of people with disabilities in the "classical" labour market. EU CAP project aim to obtain tangible, user-friendly and accessible outputs.
The EU CAP project was born as a result of various observations: ‣ The employability rate of people with disabilities remains very low in Europe. According to the Commission, "In the European Union in 2018, only 50.8% of people with disabilities have a job, compared to 75% of people without disabilities." ‣ Conventional training for career counsellors (or job coaches) does not incorporate a special focus on people with disabilities . ‣ There is a multitude of legislation in place for employment aids and reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities that differ between countries and even regions. ‣ In Europe, more than one in two people with disabilities say they have felt discriminated against. ‣ There is still a lot of cleavage and segregation of people with disabilities: from a very young age, a large part of this public is excluded in special education schools and throughout their career will be accompanied by specialised structures In order to promote the socio-professional integration of this public in the "classic" employment sector, it is necessary to equip job coaches and guidance counsellors in the broadest sense and to reduce this compartmentalisation of the public to specialised services.