CirculAbility : Seizing opportunities for the inclusion of people with disabilities through training on the circular valorisation of unsold food Erasmus Project

General information for the CirculAbility : Seizing opportunities for the inclusion of people with disabilities through training on the circular valorisation of unsold food Erasmus Project

CirculAbility : Seizing opportunities for the inclusion of people with disabilities through training on the circular valorisation of unsold food Erasmus Project
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Project Title

CirculAbility : Seizing opportunities for the inclusion of people with disabilities through training on the circular valorisation of unsold food

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Disabilities – special needs; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The CirculAbility Erasmus+ project aims at training the staff of structures employing people with disabilities (PWD) in the development of economic activities able to reduce food waste and thus promote the professional inclusion of PWDs in the Member States of the European Union (EU).

Within the EU, people with disabilities are still largely excluded from the labour market. Working structures for PWDs, which promote their socio-professional inclusion, are subject to increased competition and often seek to develop new economic activities. Moreover, despite the growing European focus on sustainable development, as evidenced by the “Green Deal” proposed by the new European Commission, food waste remains a central European issue for a successful ecological transition. Indeed, 88 millions tonnes of food are wasted every year in the EU.

The CirculAbility project meets these two fundamental challenges and pursues the objective of training PWD’s work structures to seize opportunities for the inclusion of people with disabilities through training on the circular valorisation of unsold food.

The 7 partners involved in the project are coming from France (APF, HTS), Belgium (PLS, ARFIE), Spain (AMPANS), Luxembourg (Tricentenaire) and Italy (ENAIP) and contribute in their activities to one or more European priorities, such as the inclusion of people with disabilities, the ecological transition and the development of cross-functional competences. Their expertise, both complementary and specific, has led them to see the opportunity to link the European issues of inclusion of people with disabilities and the ecological transition through an adapted training programme allowing the creation of inclusive and sustainable green jobs in Europe.

To achieve these objectives, the CirculAbility project aims to create innovative educational resources that can be used by the staff – managers and supervisors – of PWD’s work structures:
– A gallery of inspiring role models, which will help to raise awareness on opportunities for inclusion of PWD and demystify the circular economy by highlighting structures that have developed activities to valorise unsold food;
– Training in the economic management of unsold food circular valorisation activities for PWD’s work structures managers, enabling them to acquire the key skills necessary to initiate such activities;
– Technical training in the operational implementation of activities of circular valorisation of unsold food products for PWD’s supervisors, allowing them to acquire the essential skills for the operation of such an activity;
– A White Paper to raise awareness, awaken interest and promote knowledge of the issues addressed by this project by PWD’s work structures, traditional companies, political decision-makers at different levels and civil society, but also to establish policy recommendations.

These innovative educational resources will be built thanks to the complementary expertise of the partners, and the involvement of PWD’s working structures from the countries involved in the project. This co-construction ensures the creation of a replicable and transferable scheme throughout the EU.
Freely accessible online, our productions will available throughout Europe. In order to ensure the widest possible dissemination of our productions and thus multiply the impact of the CirculAbility project in the Union, a coordinated communication strategy mobilising various dissemination channels will be implemented.

This project will promote the sustainable socio-professional inclusion of people with disabilities in environmentally sustainable economic activities. The intellectual outputs foreseen by the project will allow the development of activities of circular valorisation of unsold food by PWD’s working structures in all EU countries. This project will also help to raise political and citizen awareness of these central issues at European level, and will contribute to the establishment of a legal and regulatory framework that will promote the development of these inclusive and sustainable activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 297180 Eur

Project Coordinator

APF FRANCE HANDICAP ESAT ATELIERS DU HAUT VINAGE & Country: FR

Project Partners

  • FONDAZIONE ENAIP LOMBARDIA
  • FUNDACIO AMPANS
  • Association de Recherche et de Formation sur l’Insertion en Europe
  • POUR LA SOLIDARITE ASBL
  • Tricentenaire asbl
  • HANDICAP TRAVAIL SOLIDARITE