Achieving inclusion as defined by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) requires a significant change in established non-inclusive educational practices. The project involved sharing experiences, collecting examples and developing products to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in implementing inclusion. In doing so, the requirements of the institutions must be taken into account as well as the needs of people with disabilities. The central goal of the project is to improve the inclusive competence and sensitivity of human resources managers and management. The project plan envisaged involving people with disabilities in the development process and demonstrating successful inclusion from their perspective. Specifically, the products are intended to motivate and guide companies to consider this target group when filling new positions. Specifically, the products are to be understood as microlearning offerings that can be used in the placement process. When partners are looking for a job for a person with disabilities as part of a labour market project, they can make targeted use of the project results.
Be Inclusive! refers to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) of 2006. This convention unequivocally calls for the participation of persons with disabilities in all areas of life, including education and work. In the field of work and employment in particular, it is mostly privately run businesses and companies that consider employing persons with disabilities an option. This is where this project comes in: it offers human resources managers in small and medium-sized enterprises various learning tools that prepare them for employing people with disabilities. By acquiring skills, motivation and an appropriate attitude, the aim is to lay the foundations for greater participation in line with the UN CRPD. The individual project partners, and in particular the Klausenhof Academy as coordinator, have been involved in supporting people with disabilities for many years. This applies in particular to job placement. On the one hand, they encounter social commitment – on the other hand, they encounter many reservations and ignorance. Often, there is a lack of knowledge and entrepreneurial courage to hire people with disabilities and give them prospects within the company.