Project priorities:
General priorities
- Encourage cooperation between the worlds of education, training and work
Support initial and continuous training of teachers, trainers and education and
training institutions' managers
Grundtvig priorities
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of cooperation between organisations
involved in adult education throughout Europe;
- To facilitate the development of innovative practices in adult education and their transfer,
including from a participating country to others;
- To improve pedagogical approaches and the management of adult education organisations.
Minimo number of countries: 3
Project lenght: 2 years
Deadline: 21st February 2011 in Italy (please check with your National Agency)
Link: http://www.programmallp.it/index.php?id_cnt=131
Implementation of innovative tools aimed at the creation of a common framework for the evaluation and competence recognition of people with special needs in line with the International Classification of Functioning
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS:
Although since at least the last ten years the subject of disability has been one of the European priorities to increase development and employment, nowadays the level of participation of people with special needs into the social and working life is not still high enough. Member States have achieved a lot of results to increase the accessibility to social life and the quality of mandatory education but the employment rate of disable people still remains low everywhere. It’s also very low if we consider the target of people with physical and mental disabilities (the employment rate of disabled people is stable at 50%;is at 27% for people aged between 16 and 24;barely 24% of people aged 16-64 in case of intellectual disabilities) (cfr “Situation of disabled people in the EU: Action Plan 2008).
Regularly the same document point out the crucial contribution that education and continuous training can give for the working inclusion of the specific target groups, especially when integrated models of training on the job are mixed with the traditional educational method. Not even the most advanced States in this field have got a fully satisfying system if we analyse results and effectiveness of actions, even if there are training experiences realized by the cooperation between training organizations and enterprises.
Therefore deepening the transnational knowledge can be useful both to improve effectiveness of actions and to speed up the innovation processes and the diffusion of models into those countries that are less developed in the field.
PROJECT IDEA:
The project idea, assuming that the work is one of the basic mean for the validation and personal recognition of the individual, for the positive building of the personality and the acquisition of a social role into the community, has the specific aim, by the transnational cooperation, to deepen methodologies and tools in use to evaluate and validate competences of people with special needs aimed at the work placement.
The project specific objective is to investigate how in different countries involved into the project tools and methodologies for the work placement of disable people have been integrated in the light of the International classification of Functioning (ICF) elaborated by WHO (World Health Organization). ICF is a new concept of disability, which for the first time takes into consideration also contextual factors. In fact not only does it affect people with physical or mental problem but also healthy persons, where there is the need to evaluate his/her health state. The main interest of ICF is indeed for the evaluation and functioning, in other words to understand how a person “works”, not what a person is able to do today but what he will be able to do introducing changing in his / her life. Besides the importance of this new classification, if at national level some integration efforts to integrate it with the tools in use for the evaluation and certification of competences of disable people can be registered, at international level we are still far away from the realization of common recognised instruments.
In conclusion the aim of the project is to make arise analogies and methodological and instrumental differences among the countries involved into the project (for example about competence balance) aimed at the working placement of people with special needs in line with the new classification.
SHORT ACTION DESCRIPTION
The project will be realized by the following actions:
Preliminary analysis and best practices exchange:
Realization of working groups into countries involved in to the project whose objective are:
- Mapping the existing practices and experiences, methodological models in use, lexical etc. integrated with ICF ;
- List of models in use in different countries
The working group will be realized as follows:
- Staff meetings / comparison among staff of the countries involved
- Meeting with training centres staff and managers
- Guided visits to educational organizations, public authorities, enterprises
Implementation of a prototype: Preparation of common tools prototype (ex competence balance tool) specific for the target group that combine medical diagnosis to training portfolio, to working competences and communication and relationship skills of the target
Test of the model
Experimental test of the competence balance model to a group of 10 participants in each country involved into the project after the agreement with family communities centres for people with special needs etc
Final
Preparation of final documents
Preparation of documents with the description of final prototype and their publication by leaflets and internet. Implementation of a plan for the project sustainability in order to go on with the activities after the end of the project lifetime
PROJECT CONTACT
Erica De Paoli
0039 3899616208
SLYPE erica.de.paoli
COORDINATOR
Geminas S.r.l Italy
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Geminas is the result of a professional and institutional growth process which led FORMAZIONE DOMANI and GN to make a joint venture in the field of training and work placement services.
Our experience and know how has been developed starting from 1997 in the strategic areas of counseling, vocational training, enterprise start up, equal opportunities and research of new job roles.
The target of our activity are:
- Public authorities
- Fundations
- Social and volunteering associations and private organizations
- Educational and school institutions
- Small and medium enterprises
Geminas is registered and accredited by Region Lombardy to provide
- Training (vocational training and continuous training)
- Counseling
- Work placement services
Geminas by its training centers located in Region Lombardy has got a smart and effective organization, which can guarantee direction, coordination, secretary and administration activities.
The organization has got a structure which provide the best quality in planning, programming, didactic organization and accounting activities.
To do that besides its experienced training and counseling staff, Geminas collaborates with external experts in different fields
