PATHWAYS FOR GUIDING EMPLOYMENT SKILLS FOR ASD Erasmus Project

Project Title

PATHWAYS FOR GUIDING EMPLOYMENT SKILLS FOR ASD

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: Open and distance learning; Inclusion – equity; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Project context/background:
The project has focused on people with TEA, professionals working with them, as well as potential employers. It has been structured around three axes: intervention, training and integration into the labour market. Working on training to facilitate access to the labour market and continuing training, in a context of intervention that takes into account global and international local realities by promoting the transfer of good practices, innovative experiences and open educational resources.

The objectives of the project were:
To identify the skills of people with TEA to enter the labour market. Contribute to a methodology of inclusion of people with ASD in the labour market. Provide a favourable working environment for TEA people from the training and training of employers, managers and To assist companies in recruiting people with TEA and to promote job matching.

Type number/profile of participants:
The total number of participants is 17,922 people. This total has been divided into two main groups: Direct beneficiaries:
By SURVEY: Experts and professionals working with this group directly or indirectly (at company level) in the various partner countries of the project which replied to the survey and subsequently benefited from the resulting information (71 persons) Bulgary:9, UK:13, Spain:38, Italy:1, By
TRAINING ACTIVITIES: Technicians and experts in inclusion who work directly with a group of TEA people, regardless of the partner participants, have benefited from this training a total of 13.
For MULTIPLIER EVENTS: 41 expert and professional beneficiaries (between IT and UK) working with this group have benefited directly from the activities and presentations of both MS Indirect beneficiaries: A total of 28 professionals working with TEA, employers, technicians and experts on issues of labour inclusion have participated in the national steering committees. Persons visiting the project website for information purposes: 17769

Description of the activities carried out:
Four learning sessions of the CPT Pedagogical Cultural Theater methodology have been carried out, a survey on necessary competencies of the ASDs for their labor inclusion with the objective of gathering relevant information and materials that will form the basis of the 3 open resource guides. 1. Guide of recommendations for the company to hire the right people with ASD against abuse. 2 Guide of good practices for the company to create an appropriate environment and good treatment for people with ASD at work. In the latter, the 6 videos, 4 on the CPT method have been included in (ES, IT, BG, UK) and 2 edited from the 70 recordings made in the performances of the CPT sessions. 3 Guide to territorial networks between related community organizations in the form of an interactive map.

Results and impact achieved:
The basic competences of the Tea in the field of work and the needs of the socio-educational professionals in contact with the vocational and socio-occupational training of the Tea have been concretized, a teaching guide has been created for adult education professionals who may have contact with TEA adults, recommendations have been provided for the correct recruitment of people with TEA, the CPT method and its applications in educational groups and in situations of employability of people with ASD have been worked on and publicised, with the participants acquiring skills for such management and project results at European level.

Four National Reports (ES, IT, BG, UK) have been developed emphasizing the national situation on the labor inclusion of people with ASD along with the drafting of a set of national recommendations to improve and promote social and labor inclusion at the national level
These reports not only help partners to map the state of the art in their countries, but also easily support the identification of common points and challenges or potential work points.

Potential long-term benefits:
The benefits of this project lie in better training of people with ASD in the labour market, on the basis of an analysis of labour market needs and skill demands for inclusion. Along with this, the training of professionals and employers will facilitate the incorporation and inclusion of people with ASD in a standardized employment. The development of open educational resources, both training and teaching resources and support guides, will allow the products and results of the project to be scaled up and replicated in other scenarios

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167442 Eur

Project Coordinator

FORO TECNICO DE FORMACION SL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID
• TP-Teatern
• Finance & Banking, Associazione per lo Sviluppo Organizzativo e delle Risorse Umane
• CONFEDERACIÓN AUTISMO ESPAÑA
• Ontrack Education Solutions Limited
• SOFIA UNIVERSITY ST KLIMENT OHRIDSKI
• National Autistic society