We are not Alone Erasmus Project

Project Title

We are not Alone

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Access for disadvantaged; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

According to the statistics, in Turkey, 6.9 % of all population has some kind of disabilities. Number of persons with disabilities in Turkey is approximately 5,575,926 (TUIK, 2017). The ratio of persons with disabilities to the total population in partner countries (WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data World report on disability 2011)
in Lithuania, approximately 8 % (280,000 persons)
in Hungary, approximately 5.3 % (490,578 persons) and
in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland approximately 7.1 % (3,763,000 persons).
Therefore, over 10 million people are potential indirect beneficiaries of the activities of the project.

Parents who have children with special needs and disability faces problems of social isolation, exposure to discrimination, lack of skills in coping with disability issues, lack of social support as well as problems like rejecting the disability and poor life dissatisfaction. The project focused on solving these problems.

The overall aim of “We are not Alone-WeNA” project was enhancing “life satisfaction and subjective well-being” of families of individuals with special needs and developing of their skills in coping with “difficulties of life”.

Parents who have children with special needs and disability gained;
1- Acceptance of disability,
2- Creating susceptive attitudes towards one self, be attentive to oneself
3- Improve coping skills,
4- Improving social self sufficiency,
5- Improving life satisfaction and humor skills,
6- Improving emotional regulation and emotional stability
with the help of the “Subjective Well Being Education Programme and Materials” prepared under the project.

Target groups of the project were parents who had children with special needs and disability and professionals, teachers and psychological councilors.

Project Outputs were;
1) Subjective Well Being Education Programme and Materials (available in TR, EN, HU, LT).
2) Personal Experiences Stories (available in TR, EN, HU, LT).
3) Creative Drama/Form Theatre Performance (available in TR, EN, HU, LT)
4) Teacher/Specialist Training Guide (available in TR, EN, HU, LT)

There were four learning / teaching / training activites in project in each partners’ country. The focus of the activities were to improving subjective well-being and life satisfaction of parents with special needs individuals, develop competence-based skills as well as develop cognitive and affective awareness and being aware of common human experiences and feelings.

The project were implemented through a strategic partnership between 7 organisations from 4 European countries: Turkey, Hungary, Lithuiana and United Kingdom. All partners provided services to adults and have experience in working with disabled people and in producing multimedia educational or informative materials.

Project Website

https://www.wenaproject.net/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 187284 Eur

Project Coordinator

ANKARA MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Dost Egitim Turizm Insaat Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.
• Psichosocialines ir darbo integracijos centras
• EARLY YEARS – THE ORGANISATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN LBG
• HUMAN PROFESS KOZHASZNU NONPROFIT KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG
• KEMAL YURTBILIR OZEL EGITIM MESLEK LISESI
• Uluslararasi Buyuk Egitimciler ve Ozel Egitimciler Dernegi (UBED)
• YENIMAHALLE REHBERLIK VE ARASTIRMA MERKEZI