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Enhancing Employment of People with Disabilities

2019-1-NL02-KA105-0023622019Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: NL|EL|UA|AL|TR|IT|RO · Grant: €24,963
Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemploymentAccess for disadvantaged

Objectives

The project was inspired by trainers and participants that met during a social entrepreneurship project in Poland. The mobility was focused on youth with disability, the social business that support and help them and ways how to foster their inclusion into society also during taking part in European project. The topic has been so interesting and discovering for many and they decided to go deeper into the topic of youth with disabilities and lack of equity, especially in terms of access to the labor market. The social enterprise is offering some jobs but most of the people with disabilities felt they are positively discriminated. After the discussion, we came up to the idea to make this project as mainly for youth workers who are directly involved helping youth people with disability in finding a job and better establishment in the labour market. That is why we want to propose a project that will equip youth workers working already with young with disabilities in new skills and methods of activating this vulnerable group into labor market. The project activity will be held in Pyrgos, from 15-09-2019 to 21-09-2019, and it will involve 29 Youth workers coming from 7 different countries: For 7 days they will work creating new opportunities for youngsters all over Europe! The project objectives are: 1. To raise competences of youth workers working on engaging youth with disabilities in the labour market, by providing the tools and methods to do so (career consulting and others) 2. To developed youth workers knowledge regarding the specific situation of young people with disabilities in a labour market and thus their special needs. 3. To give participants broad information about potential opportunities for young people with disabilities regarding EU programs and worldwide for finding sustainable employment to the developed practical handbook that will be used by people working with a disability on vocational activation 4. Opportunity for a youth worker to meet some people with disability and closely to understand there need and expectations. This is consistent with the objectives of Europe 2020 Strategy regarding increasing of employment rate, as well as with target 5, regarding the decreasing of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion as well with K1 Erasmus + objectives for 2019.

Project partners (7)