Zwiększenie aktywności społecznej osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną – wymiana doświadczeń Erasmus Project

Project Title

Zwiększenie aktywności społecznej osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną – wymiana doświadczeń

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The project is an example of a strategic partnerships to support the exchange of good practices. Its main message was to allow organisations which have formed the partnership to increase the capacity for action in the field of supporting people with intellectual disabilities through exchange and confrontation of ideas, practices and methods to increase social activity (if possible from a medical point of view also vocational activities). The project dealt with the problems of adult education with very low skills. It was an example of action to support the social inclusion of people who are particularly at risk of social exclusion. It supported the development of social and civic competences of people with intellectual disabilities. The project allowed on one side dissemination of good practices in social activation of this target group, on the other for advancing the diagnosis of needs and the development of guidelines for the design of the strategic partnership for innovation which is planned to be submitted in the coming years in the framework of adult education. The project promoted diversity, equality and non-discrimination in educational activities. Activation and inclusion of people with different disabilities is now a public issue and a key issue requiring effective solutions to transnational cooperation. In 2010 The European Commission adopted a comprehensive strategy to create by 2020 Europe without barriers for people with disabilities. People with disabilities represent approx. 16% of the EU population, that is 80 million people. Statistical studies show that people with intellectual disabilities aged 15+ represent approx. 3% of all persons with disability.
he main objective of the project was to focus on developing, through the exchange of international experiences, good practices in the area of social (and possibly vocational) activation of people with intellectual disabilities. To facilitate the achievement of this aim partners pointed out three specific objectives: 1) Collection and analysis of solutions from the three partner countries in the field of social and vocational support of people with intellectual disabilities; 2) Development of good European practices in the field of social and vocational activation of people with intellectual disabilities. 3) Development of mechanisms for cooperation and the idea for the strategic partnership for innovation application, among partners of the project, dedicated to the support of the specified target group. Innovation in the project focuses on two areas:
1. The target audience – people with intellectual disabilities and problems associated with their preparation for life in a society (social activation) and possibly of vocational activation (people with slight disability).
2. Methods – effective social activation of people with intellectual disabilities through effective actions to support their independence and development potential.
The partnership consisted of four entities from the three member countries of the European Union. The project responded to the needs of all partners. Current solutions in Malta or in the Benelux for social and vocational activation of people with disabilities are much more effective and sensitive to the needs of this group than the solutions adopted in Poland, but social processes taking place in contemporary Europe (aging population, the need for extending the period of vocational or social activity) cause to further their improvement, which is extremely important. The selection of partners for the project was well thought out, and the partnership structure will allow for the direct usage and testing of good practices in environmental self-help home for people with intellectual disabilities Bonitum Wroclaw, which is run by the Leader and Polish Partner since the beginning of 2017.
Stakeholder groups potentially interested in the results of the project are guardians / parents of people with intellectual disabilities, educators, representatives of training institutions and institutions of social integration, and above all people with intellectual disabilities. The project gave the opportunity to show the issues of social inclusion in a broader environment than ever before – not locally or regionally but transnationally, due to that, it was possible to actually start a discussion on working solutions in the area of effective social (and possibly vocational) activation of people with intellectual disabilities. It is worth noting two features of the project. The first was the long-term benefits of the implementation – the project has contributed to creating a comprehensive project proposal in the competition in 2019 (KA2), which we hope will allow finding a universal, sustainable and effective solution to the problem identified. The second feature was the ability to directly translate the solutions developed during the project to function in an environmental self-help house in Poland.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 50375 Eur

Project Coordinator

Dobre Kadry. Centrum badawczo-szkoleniowe Sp. z o.o. & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ImproveAway
• WROCLAWSKIE STOWARZYSZENIE NA RZECZ OSOB NIEPELNOSPRAWNYCH INTELEKTUALNIE “BONITUM”
• TRENDHUIS