OVERALL OBJECTIVE Promoting the social and professional inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities especially, but not only - in hard times of pandemic, when they risk to be further marginalised. PURPOSE Enhancing the access of at least 84 European trainees/workers with ID to VET and employment in the hospitality sector, through a tailored and digitalised vocational training spread by the Valueable network.
WHY THIS PROJECT People with intellectual disability -ID- (0,1% of EU citizens) are discriminated and marginalised. Pandemic has worsened their condition and their digital exclusion is even more evident. The e-learning about Health and Safety at work, developed whitin this proposal and included in the set of tools aimed at supporting a successful job inclusion, helped them to get basic skills at home or at the training centre with their tutors, increasing their employability also with a facilitated access as trainees or workers in the hospitality companies of the Valueable network, with internships duly prepared and managed. NEEDS ADDRESSED When employed, workers with ID are among the most vulnerable. There are almost no examples of Health and Safety training being provided to workers with ID in a manner they can understand. Vocational training for people with ID has been carried out exclusively through face to face or on the spot activities. The lock-down period has highlighted how the time "suspended" both in training and at work could be quickly turned into digital mode. However, people with ID have been struggling to cope with the poor or total lack of accessibility to digital education, particularly in vocational training.