EU.CAP Erasmus Project

Project Title

EU.CAP

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: Disabilities – special needs; Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The EU.CAP project focuses on improving equality of opportunity by improving the employability and active participation of people with mild disabilities in the mainstream economy. The target audience is:
1. persons under 30 years of age with mild intellectual disabilities, physical and / or sensory disabilities, who are likely to fit into a traditional work environment with (possibly) slight adaptations in situ (mobility, workplace, technologies) adapted …). This is the priority target audience.
2. social workers wishing to be trained in the use of a socio-educational tool for the target audience 1

EU.CAP aims to improve the professional profile of people with disabilities and their suitability for the job market. It aims for long-lasting benefits for individuals and partner organizations by developing an integration model based on the good practices detected in the employability of risk groups. The best practices selected will be integrated into the socio-pedagogical tool that will promote quality and excellence.
EU.CAP wishes to promote and develop with its priority target audience skills (know-how) and integration skills (know-how) in the workplace by combining observation courses, training and employment. It will be a process of maximum 15 months managed as part of a specialized job coaching.
A specific methodological tool will be built in four stages:
1: Identify good practices in the area of ​​employability of people with low mobility in the Member States
2: Check the timeliness and feasibility of transferring good practices.
3: Develop, test and implement a methodological tool of coaching specialized in various sectors of activity. This methodological tool will have but for:
– Help the person with a disability, their profile, their professional profile, their need for training and / or the most effective way job market;
– to facilitate support for socio-professional integration in companies by specializing the job coach in the realities of disability: articulate the learning time, the collective life time and the individual steps for the trainee to the evolution ‘insert socially, to discover concretely a job, to become familiar with the realities of professional life and, finally, to gain access to employment.
4: Organizer of a pilot training for 12 social workers wishing to specialize in the professional integration of people with disabilities.

At the end of the project, a repository of training and skills will be freely available to professionals of integration and disability. A series of policy actions will then be sensitized to States and civil society on the issue of employment of people with mild disabilities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 176676 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNESSA & Country: BE

Project Partners

• GEM TC CORSICA U SCONTRU
• Xano Channel asociación para el desarrollo comunitario
• Associazione C’ENTRO