Inclusive Direction in Education of Adults on Article 12 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusive Direction in Education of Adults on Article 12

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 2016

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Project “IDEA 12”focused on raising public awareness by teaching about legal capacity of persons with disability and support in decision making. Both are practical projection of Article 12 “Equal recognition before the law” of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Since preparing and outlining the project “IDEA 12” rather slow progress is being accounted for, on both national as well as the European levels in implementing Article 12. This project was designed with an ambition to contribute to the implementation of Article 12 by preparing and testing an innovative form of adult education as a tool of change and a medium of public awareness-raising. We put effort into involving crucial target groups, which are able and have will to accelerate the shift: people with disabilities and mental health problems, their families, informal supporters, their advocacy associations, professionals from support services, public administrators, educators and so on. Materials prepared during the project and the events were in easy read form. The materials contain examples of good practice on – with legal capacity close related – supported decision-making. Legal capacity issues relate not only to people with learning difficulties and mental health issues, but to all of us. Injuries, illnesses, age can easily get any of us to the situation when an intensive support in making decision can become eminent. It was the aim of the project to put the problem on the table and raise awareness of the public to the concept of supported decision making with the supported person. It is about replacing the substitutional decision making done in the person´s “best interest” but without him/her by support provided to the person with his/her decision making. At the end it fits to the concept of Deep Democracy. Project team tried to achieve this by preparing a written material on the right to full legal capacity and the right to support in decision-making for all, with a special focus on people with learning disabilities. This material is published under the name Reference Document. This document is enhanced by material on how to support a person in decision making, it provides good practice examples on supported decision-making. The name of the paper was supposed to be the Best Practice. Practical part of the project was preparing and piloting an inclusive training on supported decision-making for professionals, public administrators, people with learning disabilities and mental health problems. Project “IDEA 12” reflected itself as innovative in two ways: great emphasis was put on inclusiveness of the trainings. We have achieved this through involvement of trainers with direct experience with support in decision-making: the trainings were delivered by tandems of trainers in which one was a person without disability. The second innovation is a general concept of training, which can be used by any subject or individual providing trainings in legal capacity and support in decision making. The project has three outputs: 1) Position paper / Reference Document 2) Good and promising Practice in supported decision-making and 3) Handbook of inclusive training. (For detailed content of the outcomes please refer to the chapter dealing with the particular outcomes). During the project the national tandems of trainers (persons with and without disability) delivered inclusive trainings on supported decision making on national levels. In each participating country inclusive dissemination events were delivered. Main impact of the project, as described in the project proposal, was encouraging people to think and work differently and more inclusively. The project team did its best to achieve this. The ambition was to zeal as many as possible of involved people on national and international level to carry the confidence, that everyone is able – with proper support – to make decisions about his/her life, further. The work of the international project team proved, that there are common views, practices and strategies which have the potential to shift the practice as the modern law foresee it.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 185178,35 Eur

Project Coordinator

Quip, z.ú. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• CONFEDERACION PLENA INCLUSION ESPANA
• UNIVERZITA KARLOVA
• Nadácia Krajina harmónie
• CHANGE People
• RESURSU CENTRS CILVEKIEM AR GARIGIEM TRAUCEJUMIEM “ZELDA”
• Fundación de Tutela y Apoyo Aprocor
• ASOCIACIJA LIETUVOS NEIGALIUJU FORUMAS