This project, with partners from Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Portugal and Spain, sought to improve the training of trainers working with people with disabilities in the field of gardening and agriculture, providing them with adapted resources, so that such training has an impact on the employability of people with disabilities. To this end, as operational results, it was intended to provide materials, tools and resources to students with intellectual disabilities, as well as to teachers, training staff, mentors, trainers, leaders of VET centers, to facilitate the incorporation of people with intellectual disabilities in training actions for employment.
The EU promotes the active inclusion and full participation of people with disabilities in society, in line with the EU approach to disability human rights, which means that disability is a rights issue and not a matter of discretion. This approach is also at the core of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Easy Gardening. Erasmus + project (February 2022-February 2024) aimed to contribute to the social participation of people with disabilities by improving their vocational skills for employment. “Vocational training fosters innovation, creativity and self-confidence.” The current labor market means that many of our students with disabilities are unable to access employment. The supply of vocational training for people with disabilities is limited. Adapted materials usually have to be developed by the teachers themselves, since they are not already designed. In addition, the subject matter was selected because it is one of the professions in which PWiD are most likely to find employment.