- To improve (by provision of up-to-date training) skills and knowledge of adult educators providing trainings and consultations to people with disabilities. Lessons are aimed at skills improvement, protection of people with disabilities from abuse and neglect, promotion of independent living and healthy lifestyle; by strengthening digital and social skills we contribute to equal opportunities and inclusion. - To create a more innovative teaching method (E-learning) that can be used both by adult educators and their trainees (classroom activities and individual learning). - To enable participants to enhance and widen their policies and core activities and to generate improvements of the knowledge, skills and competences of the staff of partners and of those in their network. This improves outcomes in the organizational culture and the quality of the provided adult education services for people with disabilities. - To raise the awareness among partners countries and on EU level about importance of social inclusions and independent living of people with disabilities. - To foster “centres of excellence” creation for adult education provision in partner countries and EU (through cooperation on local, national and EU level.
People with disabilities still face considerable barriers in access to healthcare, education, employment, recreation activities. NEEDS ADDRESSED: Target group (specialists providing trainings and consultations to people with disabilities) lack relevant evidence-based open-access qualification improvement tools about social inclusion and empowerment of people with disabilities; Lack of E-learning opportunities for the TG (relevant in the context of global COVID-19 pandemic); Lack of E-resources for adult educators to use during online trainings for people with disabilities; Increased incidence of abuse and neglect of people with disabilities (due to lockdown, changed psychosocial environment, lack of knowledge); lack of healthy lifestyle promotion tools and trainings; lack of digital skills and media literacy improvement tools for people with disabilities. By exchanging know-how, experience and good practices, project internationally developed and piloted a new non-formal innovative training system for improvement and extending the offer of high-quality learning opportunities for specialists that provide trainings and consultations to people with disabilities and thus promotes the principles of independent living philosophy.