People with disabilities between the ages of 16 and 30 have a level of education that is still lower than that of young people without disabilities of the same age. About 40% of the young people with disabilities report having felt discriminated against in the last 12 months in the fields of education, training or work. The results of the Erasmus + project (2018-2-ES02-KA347-011924) show that young people often suffer discrimination in educational, training or work environments. This discrimination is always linked to the early departure of these young people from school. This project proposes to exchange best practices between our partner countries in order to produce a summary document of the findings that are diffusable and useful for employment and education professionals who advise, support and assist these young people. The goal is to produce conclusions that raise awareness of the benefits of diversity, inclusion, tolerance and inclusion of youth with disabilities. This program will include strategies and dissemination tools to combat and eliminate prejudices and stereotypes against disability among young people without disabilities. This will be possible mainly through a program using an innovative approach of cooperation between complementary organizations from different fields, but which share common interests, values and objectives. The main content of this innovative program will be based on: • Prejudices and stereotypes that determine discrimination, • The language elements that accompany these prejudices • Conditions conducive to good integration
It was expected, through the exchange of good practices, that each participant open up their own reflection and increase their knowledge of the prejudices that are at the root of discrimination by identifying the invisible obstacles that young people with disabilities encountered. - Through documentation and interventions - By observing intervention approaches with young people either in a specialized environment or in an ordinary school situation by meeting professionals. - By learning about facilitating organizational models, particularly regarding access to the world of work. - By understanding methods promoting inclusion: architecture, terminology and inclusive leisure activities. - By collecting the testimonies of young people who have succeeded in their schooling, their integration into the world of work or quite simply having acquired autonomy in their daily lives. Thus, the participants who all work with young people with disabilities by crossing their eyes with other professionals will have a different approach. In order to disseminate these testimonies and the results of the meetings, a LINKEDIN page was preferred to the creation of a website in the immediate future.
Young people with disabilities encounter a multitude of difficulties that generate inequality. The vast majority of them could be as independent as the rest of young people if the right conditions of equality in training, employment and accessibility to all types of places were met. Disabled people between the ages of 16 and 30 have lower levels of education than non-disabled young people of the same age and around 40% say they have felt discriminated against in education because of a disability. The SEED project aims to train professionals who educate, train, advise, coach or support these young people, raise their awareness of the benefits of diversity, inclusion, tolerance of young people with disabilities through the exchange of good practices in European regions covered by the project during the four transnational trainings. This program involved strategies, methods and dissemination tools to challenge and eliminate prejudice against disability among young people without disabilities. This was possible mainly thanks to a European cooperation established by the choice of complementary organizations sharing the same objectives.