Innovative Management of skills and training within Inclusive Enterprises Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovative Management of skills and training within Inclusive Enterprises

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The 2010-2020 EU Strategy for People with Disabilities targets equality, employment and training as priority issues. According to the EU progress report, in 2020 about 120 million Europeans will have a disability. Access to the labor market remains limited: 48.7% in employment against 72.5% of valid persons. 22.5% of young people with disabilities leave the school system too early.
The creation of Inclusive Enterprises, a professional structure fully integrated into the labor market, which employs a large majority of People with disabilities (PWD), promotes their social and professional integration. Inclusive Enterprises contribute to the professionalization and qualification of their employees, (75% of whom who have a low level of qualification)

The National Confederations of Inclusive Enterprises of 4 countries (Unea in France, Conacee in Spain, BAG If in Germany and Eweta in Belgium) and FAF, the main adviser of Inclusive Enterprises in Germany, working for the professionalization of PWD, confirmed their will to work together in order to develop a project at European level aimed at improving skills within Inclusive Enterprises
This project draws on the guidelines of the initiatives of “New Skills Strategy for Europe” adopted by the EU to improve the quality and relevance of skills acquisition and the strategic monitoring of skills needs.

The objective of this project is to develop common tools that identify on the one hand the existing skills and skill needs of PWD and managers of Inclusive Enterprises, and on the other hand, propose adapted methods. enabling PWD to acquire and improve their skills in order to have more opportunities to access employment at national and European level. The idea of the project is to improve the vocational training system oriented to the disability sector.

This project will develop 4 intellectual productions:

– The analyse of current situation of Inclusive Enterprises in the 4 partner countries. In order to share expertise, to identify possible common applications at European level and / or guidelines for national regulation.

– The development of a jobs / skills benchmark adapted to the disability sector: Skills of PWD in the context of a representative activity of the partners’ IEs (eg green spaces, facility management).
The aim is to develop an innovative methodology adapted to the disability situation, which will be applicable on a European scale, allowing PWD to acquire the necessary skills, for the good execution of their activities in a wider business scope. To date, such a reference document in the disability sector is non-existent

– The development of a jobs / managerial skills framework for managers of IE in order to create an inclusive environment
This inclusive management allows to anticipate and adapt working conditions and better inclusion PWD, while promoting its rise in skills at an appropriate pace. These skills can be applied in all fields of activity.

– The creation of a training module on managerial skills within the IEs
The development of the jobs/skill framework for managers will allow the creation of a training module, with a pedagogy resulting from a skills approach. This will be a first step towards developing common training content in the disability sector.

This reinforcement of skills would improve the activities carried out by PWD and will generate a better adaptation of working conditions through the creation of an inclusive environment

This project has a direct impact on the PWD by making them autonomous in the construction of his professional project..

The intellectual productions developed within the framework of this project aim at constituting the reference tools for the development of the new trainings or for the adaptation of the existing trainings, thus integrating a skills approach with a methodology adapted to the situation of disability.

The partners are acting on the assertion that training is an important way to employment that promotes a reduction in the unemployment rate of PWDs. Work is the fundamental factor of social inclusion since it contributes to the constitution of the social relation ship and thus, to full access to citizenship for these people.

Project Website

http://www.project-innovie.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 260070 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNION NATIONALE DES ENTREPRISES ADAPTEES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• ENTENTE WALLONNE DES ENTREPRISES DE TRAVAIL ADAPTE
• CONFEDERACION NACIONAL DE CENTROS ESPECIALES DE EMPLEO
• Fachberatung fuer Arbeits- und Firmenprojekte (FAF) gemeinnuetzige GMBH
• Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Inklusionsfirmen