Exchange of professionals between European medico-social structure Erasmus Project

Project Title

Exchange of professionals between European medico-social structure

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

This two-year project connects four European institutions in four European countries: France, Belgium, Italy and Lithuania. The four institutions share the same priority, namely the quality of support for the young people with disabilities that they host. Three of these institutions are well acquainted with each other, already involved in an Erasmus+ project for young people, their families and professionals on the use of screens : “Net ou p@s Net”. The organized stays have already shown the interest and the relevance of these exchanges. The differences in culture but above all in practices from one country to another enrich collective thinking. For example, a country like Italy is more advanced than France in terms of inclusion. We therefore want to go further with this project, sending only professionals to discover specific practices in each European structure. Two professionals per country and a director will go to different institutions for five days to observe their counterparts. Each professional and the director will alternate to have different visions. In the host country, they will not replace another professional but be there as an observer (“job-shadowing”), not to put them in difficulty. In their country of origin, they will be replaced during their absence to avoid putting their colleagues in difficulty with extra workload. These visits will be sources of analysis, sharing and elaboration on professional practices. When they return, the professionals will be able to present to their colleagues their observations and the analyzed modes of accompaniment that they will be able to experiment with, obviously taking into account the cultural differences between their countries. The objective is to benefit from the eyes of our European counterparts and to present our practices; to be able to feed on the experience of each; to learn from them. Such theoretical and practical elaboration will only improve the accompaniment of the young people in our structures. This will also allow professionals to take a step back from their practices. The directors will be able to have a different vision on the management of a medico-social establishment, and take inspiration from certain practices to improve the daily life of their structures. Comments will be transcribed and shared on a common digital tool. The relevance of certain practices could also be discussed with the financiers to be presented and included in public policies.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 93480 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIATION AR ROC’H & Country: FR

Project Partners

• COOPERATIVA SOCIALE MIRAFIORI ONLUS
• VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS
• Mes Petits Institut Médico Pédagogique