InAutism – Fostering Adult Integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

InAutism – Fostering Adult Integration

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The InAutism – Fostering Adult Integration project presents a new concept to approach and support people with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. It is scheduled to last 24 months.

Has 3 objectives
1. To support adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the acquisition and development of essential skills, for a full participation in society;
2. To cover an educational intervention (cognitive, emotional and relational);
3. To support the significant, family, educators and researchers / technicians, expanding their competences and intervention capacity.

Its targets and quantitative objectives are:
1. Adult people with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (40);
2. Adult people – significant / family (34), educators and technicians (17).

The project’s architecture is based on the development of a Life Plan for Integration and in 3 axes.
1. Axis 1 – Socio-Educational Support for Adult People with Neurodevelopment Disorders (Learners): It implies the development of the Reception Plan, the Individual Socio-Educational Plan and a Cooperative Intervention Plan.
2. Axis 2 – Family Orientation and Support: It deals with the family bond, being essential to guarantee the involvement of the family in the whole process. It is a very specific situation of adult education, practically non-existent.
3. Axis 3 – Support for Educators: Incorporates training actions for researches/technicians, to help apply and evolve the FAI Model and its dissemination.

The expected Results, by nature of intervenors, are:
1. Learner – capacity development, improvement of quality of life and integration in broad contexts.
2. Significant and Family – development of specific skills to support people with neurodevelopmental disorders.
3. Specialized researchers / technicians – development of skills and closer proximity to the reality of the people they accompany and greater connection and involvement with family members and significant ones.

Three entities join efforts, each one with experience of approaching the typology of the target audience, which are the Portuguese Association for Development Disorders and Autism in Leiria (Portugal), the promoting entity, and the Asociación Autismo Vigo (Spain) and Peacepainting Foundation (Norway), as partners

The project has:

1. High relevance, therefore, presents a relevant, evaluable, through the defined objectives and priorities for action and the approach of European and crucial horizontal priorities, namely that of “social inclusion”;
2. High qualitative level, in terms of its conception and programmed execution, with exhaustive description and justification, an adjusted and detailed work program and technical and financial sustainability;
3. A project team and cooperation mechanisms that ensure that the project involves an adequate number of organizations, which complement each other and have a profile of high experience and expertise;
4. A strong impact and high dissemination – the measures to evaluate the results are detailed. It is a substantial increase for the participating organizations, with a holistic approach and several methodologies and techniques. At local, regional, national and European level, a strong impact is expected, due to the accuracy of the approach to address the detected problem;
5. A cohesive dissemination plan. All materials, documents and supports will be made available free of charge.

Its construction, being of a transnational nature, aims to achieve an effective approach to a problem that is international. InAutism is an educational proposal for the integration of adults, with added value at EU level and abroad. The innovation and effectiveness of the methodologies, techniques and actions of the two international partners give a high degree of maturity and universality to the model, thus enhancing the respective adhesion and replicability.

It will deploy 20 therapeutic and educational Intellectual Products, in different supports, with case studies, namely, the FAI Manual, which allows the FAI Model and the respective technical and educational components to be applied.

It implies the realization of 6 Multiplier Events under the themes of “Application of the FAI Model to support People with Neurodevelopment Problems” and “The FAI Model, an integrated solution to support People with Neurodevelopment Problems”, in Leiria, Portugal, in Vigo, Spain, and in Terrak, Norway.

The project incorporates 4 strands of innovation:
1. Of procedural architecture – based on the adoption of the design thinking philosophy;
2. Technical, educational and social development – a new approach, anchored on the Life Plan for Integration (LPI), a specific focus on the Family Orientation and Support and an educational strand for the Support to Educators;
3. Methodologies and Practices – an educational philosophy, not yet applied in this sector;
4. Intellectual Outputs generated – the intellectual products generated in the different phases of the project are an educational support of innovative nature.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 227138 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associação Portuguesa para as Perturbações do Desenvolvimento e Autismo de Leiria & Country: PT

Project Partners

• AUTISMO VIGO
• Peacepainting