DisABILITY: Improving Quality of Work of Youth Organizations Working with People with Disabilities Erasmus Project

Project Title

DisABILITY: Improving Quality of Work of Youth Organizations Working with People with Disabilities

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project entitle ‘DisABILITY: Improving Quality of Work of Youth Organizations Working with People with Disabilities’ will take 15 months. It will start on 1.12. 2020 and it will finish on 28.2.2022. The project will consist from several mobility and capacity building activities created with aim to meet following objectives:1.To strengthen the competencies of CSOs representatives and capacities of their organizations to analyse needs of young people with disabilities, to design and to deliver activities addressing these needs and developing their competencies;2. To increase the competencies of CSOs representatives and capacities of their organizations to raise awareness of local communities on situation of young people with disabilities, to address existing stereotypes and prejudices and roots of discrimination and social exclusion;3. To link involved CSOs and other stakeholders and support development of new projects targeting young people with disabilities leading to creating more socially inclusive society. In the project will take part eight youth organizations working with people with intellectual and psychical disabilities representing Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary, North Macedonia, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador. Key project results will be increased competences of involved youth workers and educators working with people with disabilities, raised capacities of organizations involved in the project and in overall better quality of activities design with aim to empower and to develop competences of people with disabilities. For wider audience key product will be online course available for free for anyone interested to develop their capacities to work with people with disabilities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145500 Eur

Project Coordinator

SDRUJENIE SPORTEN KLUB SPECIAL OLYMPICS- PLEVEN & Country: BG

Project Partners

• BRIGADA DE VOLUNTARIOS BOLIVARIANOS DEL PERU
• REJTETT KINCSEK DOWN EGYESULET
• MUGLA ENGELLILER DERNEGI
• FUNDACION ATASIM
• ASOCIACION MEXICANA DE VOLUNTARIADO INTERNACIONAL
• ZDRUZHENIE ASOCIJACIJA ZA PRAVATA NA DECA I MLADINCI SO POSEBNI POTREBI LASTOVICA SKOPJE