Mainstream for the Empowerment of Disabled people in an Inclusive Approach Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mainstream for the Empowerment of Disabled people in an Inclusive Approach

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The employment objectives of the European Union (75% of assets from 25 to 64 years) to Horizon 2020 and the United Nations objectives (2021-2027), ratified by the EU, on the rights of living people with a disability, raise the rights and conditions of access to independent living, which is inseparable from an inclusive and diverse approach.

“Different” people, especially disabled ones, still face great difficulties in living normally in the current conditions. Inclusion in society would imply that it is up to society toadapt to the singularities of people, to their differences, by developing and changing their environment to facilitate informational, geographical, physical and financial access to all citizens. This implies mobilizing all the components of our society to think their lives differently, favouring sustainable development in all territories, rural or urban (and this from a technical, ecological, social, leisure, health, culture, landscape, etc point of view).

Any discussion about autonomy for disabled people, means talking about all access paths to independent life. Self-determination is a major challenge to make disabled people key-actors of their life. The aim is to provide them the possibility/power of acting, and to do it in a welcoming and caring environment, which allows them make choices and enables them to be responsible. That is why, all the professionnals and stakeholders involved must work together and with an interdisciplinary approach to make ordinary life inclusive. That requires us to modify the representations of the reality lived by these people and their resources by improving the support devices and services and removing the barriers they face. A facilitation process is also required to improve inclusion of these people in common law instances, for all topics of their life, especially autonomy in their accomodation, access to administration services, access to healthcare and to hobbies and cultural activities.)

MEDIA is part of this challenge and aims to train people living with a disability to acquire the position of inclusion facilitator on their territory as a vector of inclusion for their peers with local professionals. The inclusion facilitator thus becomes an agent of his own empowerment and that of his peers as well as an agent of transformation of social representations on people with disabilities. It will also be important to structure this dynamic of self-determination and empowerment to ensure its sustainability and future efficiency.

MEDIA aims to contribute to an inclusive environment, to change the vision and representation linked to different people, and especially people with a cognitive disability.

Objectives
– Firstly, develop training courses « autonomiseur inclusif » (inclusion facilitator), based on skills and knowledges approach. Secondly, train disabled people to perform this job. This training course will be supplemented by a SPOC focused on knowledge and first-hand experience.
– Create and develop interdisciplinary professionnal teams in different areas to support this process (government agencies, care facilities, accommodation, culture, hobbies…..) to remove the barriers and create levers for the inclusive transition.
– Collect and share the practices to define the conditions. Define procedures by finding common topics and by considering the contextual specificities to produce advice to ensure the value of this job, and contribute to adapt the intervention policy.

The project MEDIA is carried by LES CENTRES D’HABITAT DU LITTORAL DUNKERQUOIS (France), which are included in the association Papillons Blancs de Dunkerque, and is surrounded with strong partners who share common values and involvement around self-determination, empowerment : ASSOCIATION DE LOVIE VZW (Belgique), FORO TECNICO DE FORMATION (Espagne), PASSEPORT EUROPE (France), HAUTE ECOLE DE TRAVAIL SOCIAL (Suisse) and an associated partner HANDIDACTIQUE chaired by Pascal JACOB, who was the leader of a first « autonomiseur/facilitator » training. Our partners are all involved in social and professionnal inclusive practices, and are able to mobilise the required interdisciplinary teams.

Project Website

http://media.sed.uth.gr/?redirect=0&lang=fr

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 235167,86 Eur

Project Coordinator

Papillons Blancs de Dunkerque & Country: FR

Project Partners

• De Lovie vzw
• PASSEPORT EUROPE
• HAUTE ECOLE SPECIALISEE DE SUISSE OCCIDENTALE
• FORO TECNICO DE FORMACION SL
• PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS