Inclusive housing for people with disabilities as a response to social autonomy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusive housing for people with disabilities as a response to social autonomy

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

Project Summary

The ambition of the LOG’IN project is to promote access to inclusive housing for people with disabilities and thus promote their autonomy and the power to act socially.

Access to inclusive housing for the disabled remains very insufficient in Europe. It is, however, a complementary response to ordinary accommodation and an alternative to institutional accommodation. These are small independent housing complexes, characterized by individual living spaces associated with shared living spaces, in an adapted and secure environment ensuring more sociability.

The LOG’IN training program provides the knowledge and skills necessary for qualified professionals in Europe who can provide answers to people with disabilities in inclusive housing. It therefore concerns carers, including inclusion professionals, shared housing, etc.

Through their profession and proximity to the disabled, these learners will offer support and therefore play an essential role in addressing the societal challenges of inclusive housing.

In this context, the learner’s role becomes that of a coordinator, able to identify and support innovative local initiatives, stimulate projects, raise their voice and, more widely, spread good practices.

To do this, it is important that caregivers know and integrate into the active partnerships between territorial actors in charge of housing issues, which is not the case even today due to lack of knowledge of the sector. A fortiori, beyond a few local initiatives, they are only very little involved in the context of actions related to inclusive housing.

LOG’IN intends to tackle this problem by creating a transnational consortium whose the objective is to build together a European training framework which will strengthen the skills of carers to respond to the solution of inclusive housing and offer it to training centers and institutions in charge of social policies.

To respond coherently to these challenges which go beyond national frameworks, the transnational dimension is necessary. In addition, the diversity and complementarity of actors’ know-how, situations and local experiences will enrich the repository of available solutions and approaches.

Acting on this issue leads us, in a way, to the current health crisis, and raises questions about the collective housing of the most vulnerable.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 306745 Eur

Project Coordinator

Institut Regional d’Insertion Professionnelle et Sociale & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNESSA
• ELDERBERRY AB
• ITG CONSEIL
• IASIS