EXCHANGING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION Erasmus Project

Project Title

EXCHANGING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

Youth with mental disabilities represents a vulnerable category that is facing many difficulties in integrating in society, especially in Eastern Europe where their integration is more difficult due to the lack of infrastructure, learning methodology and sometimes due to stereotypes that still persist in society. For improving their situation and their access to education, there is a need for accessible ways for developing the skills of youth workers in working with people with disability, the skills of parents and support staff in order to work on the development of children with different stages of mental disabilities appart from their therapy or counseling hours and for methodologies that can be used in reducing the prejudice of people towards those facing disability.
For this, our project aimed at developing methodologies, tools, human resources, capacities and recommendations, that will help youngsters with mental disabilities to improve their personal growth appart form their counseling or therapy hours and to be better integrated in the main stream schooling system. It was done in cooperation with organisations from Bugaria and Romania, each of them bringing a different experience in this initiative.
In order to achieve these objectives, different outputs was created, including a T-kit on PECS, a T-kit containing methods for creating a space that will foster the integration of youngsters with disability in the mainstream school system. All these was tested in 3 training courses, in order to see to what extent they can be later implemented and what changes are needed.
Through the project we intended to achieve some measurable outputs related to increasing the capacity of youth workers, teachers and untrained people to better integrate mentally disabled youth and help their educational development outside the counseling and therapy hours and in the mainstream school system. Moreover, youth organisations and other institutions targeted by the project are expected to cooperate more in similar initiatives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100364 Eur

Project Coordinator

Changing myself… I change the world! & Country: EL

Project Partners

• NATSIONALNA ASOTSIATSIA NA RESURSNITE UCHITELI
• OFENSIVA TINERILOR ASOCIATIA