Inclusive Mobility Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusive Mobility

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: Disabilities – special needs; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The Inclusive Mobility project focuses its work on the mobility pathways of the youth with disabilities. Inclusive Mobility rely on the priorities laid down by the European Union Europe 2020 policy and the Council of Europe Handicap Strategy 2017-2023. The aim of these policies is to double the number of youth mobilities in Europe, with a specific focus on disadvantaged publics, including youth with disabilities. We believe we could bring an answer to these basic needs by the mobility programs. We would promote personal, social and professional development for the youth with disabilities in the actual global world. The inputs and benefits of a mobility in a life path are the key priorities of the Inclusive Mobility project. The various context elements shows us that, more than a quantitative growing, the project should favour a qualitative support at several levels on the topic: information on existing mobility devices, pre-departure preparation, welcome and support during the mobility, how to value it at the end. Reinforced by the MappED! project on which AHEAD and ESN France were working during two years, we wanted to continue our collaboration in order to better answer needs identified on the ground. Inclusive Mobility project aims are to create a clear and accessible resource for the youth with disabilities and bring a qualitative support to the stakeholders working in the field of youth. The project will be complementary with the various existing projects on the topic by complying to the following objectives:
1. Make accessible a qualitative information at every step of the mobility pathway to the youth with disabilities
2. Empower the stakeholders working on the topic following their specificities (educational institute, associations, economic actors, etc.)
These main goals lead us to target two specific audiences:
– The youth with disabilities and their families by the implementation of a complete information center and support devices to suit every
profile
– The stakeholders working in the field of mobility and youth. They will benefit several available resources, tools and training in order to reinforce the support of youth with disabilities in their mobility pathway
To answer these goals, the consortium composed of six experienced stakeholders in the topic and on European project: AHEAD, ESN France, SV-Bildungswerk, Udruga Zamisli, JugendInfos and Droit au savoir; will develop four intellectual outputs:
O1 – A participatory webplatform – Inclusive Mobility – 10 000 expected users
O2 – A toolbox for the youth workers and associations working on the topic – 300 expected download
O3 – A study on the short-term mobility of youth with disabilities – 40 reached Ministry and Erasmus+ National Agencies
O4 – A research on practices observed on the welcome of international students with disabilities – 15 identified countries
The project is built in a long term perspective aiming to: – Improve devices and practices on the support of youth with disabilities – Contribute to the growing number of youth with disabilities doing an international mobility – Adapt short-term mobilities in order to make them more accessible for the youth with disabilities and more efficient in a personal and professional pathway – Promote the emergence of a community gathering the involved stakeholders on the topic: youth with disabilities, families, educational institute, associations, companies – Intensify relationships on various sectors: between schools and higher education institutions, between public stakeholders, private actors and associations, etc. In order to carry out the project tasks, the consortium established a precise work methodology on each intellectual output (qualitative and quantitative indicators, impact assessment, etc.) and a complete dissemination plan in several steps. This will allow the consortium to improve the product tools thanks to the partner’s experiences and based on the non-formal / popular education techniques. The consortium will also make the project sustainable by paying attention on how to involve and empower a community of volunteers. Thus, it will ensure peer-to-peer exchanges on the webplatform and a participatory work of the tools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 151310,38 Eur

Project Coordinator

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE ERASMUS STUDENT NETWORK FRANCE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• AHEAD LIMITED
• BUNDESNETZWERK OSTERREICHISCHE JUNGENDINFOS VEREIN
• Udruga za promicanje kvalitetnog obrazovanja mladih s invaliditetom “ZAMISLI”
• Association nationale pour le droit au savoir et à l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes personnes handicapées
• Bildungswerk für Schülervertretung und Schülerbeteiligung e.V.