Model for Inclusive Community Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Model for Inclusive Community Education

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 2015

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities demands the right of being included in the community. Thus all countries are in charge to develop
supporting systems to foster the social inclusion and to promote systems that the inclusion and participation of them can be ensured. The main and long-term
aim of the project MINCE was to attain the social inclusion and participation of people with severe intellectual disabilities in the community.
The partnership developed a variety of methods and education programs which, taken as a whole, represent the Model for Inclusive Community Education. The
model provides multi-level methods and tools to promote social inclusion. It consists of six Intellectual Outputs:
• MINCE Curriculum for Peer-Mediators including easy-to-read version: This curriculum is a training program in the course of which people with learning
difficulties or minor intellectual disabilities get empowered to act as mediators between people with severe intellectual disabilities and society.
• MINCE Guideline for Peer-Mediators in easy-to-read (STEP UP Guide) (brochure and audiobook): The so called STEP UP Guide for Peer-Mediators offers
peer-mediators support representing the interests of people with severe intellectual disabilities. It can be used by people with intellectual disabilities while
participating in the training for peer-mediators (developed in the IO1) as a training handbook and a learning diary and also when acting in their new role as
peer-mediators as it provides tools and support for this new task.
• MINCE Curriculum for disability care workers: This is a supplementary curriculum created for professional assistants and care workers. It deals with the
every-day challenges of the professional staff in disability care organisations with regard to the social inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities.
There was developed on the one hand a curriculum which identifies the core competencies and the areas that should be addressed during the training. On the
other hand and additionally there was developed a more detailed version that provides additional material and knowledge.
• MINCE Guidelines for disability care institutions: These guidelines are developed to help organisations in the disability field to gear the contents of their
existing services towards the social inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities. Additionally they contain action strategies and good practises for
disability care organisations to expand their mission to include the idea of Community education.
• Mince Compendium: The MINCE Compendium is a systematic instruction guideline that serves as a basis for the practical implementation of inclusive
community education which also provides the theoretical background of the MINCE project (aims and effects of social inclusion, community education, models
of disabilities, deeper description of the developed material and its use).
• MINCE Movie: This film brings the subject of social inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities closer to a broader audience. It shows three
situations (work, visit in a café and leisure time – disco) like they are nowadays and points then out solutions for the future. To keep it barrier-free the film
comes without spoken language.
The objectives MINCE was pursuing were:
• Raising awareness of the society to meet the needs of people with severe intellectual disabilities
• Collaboration with Peer- Mediators in the matters of inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities
• Expert training for Peer-Mediators for Advocacy and Inclusion
• Development of professional skills for disability carers working with people with severe intellectual disabilities in the community
• Rethinking the role of organisations in the disability field – Facilitating processes within society
• Support for the Implementation of Inclusive Community Education
The MINCE project initiated developments which impacts and long-term benefits turn out on the following themes:
• Empowerment of people with intellectual disability to play an active role in the community
• Enabling communities to learn together with people with severe intellectual disabilities
• Facilitating the process of inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities into communities
• Enhancing the sensibility of communities and its members for the needs of people with severe intellectual disabilities
• Building up an inclusive community in order to facilitate the de-institutionalisation processes of people with severe intellectual disabilities.–

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170249,67 Eur

Project Coordinator

LEBENSHILFEN SOZIALE DIENSTE GMBH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Bulgarian Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (BAPID)
• Stephansstift Zentrum für Erwachsenenbildung gemeinnützige GmbH
• SPOLECZNA AKADEMIA NAUK
• Mali dom – Zagreb dnevni centar za rehabilitaciju djece i mladezi
• Center za usposabljanje, delo in varstvo Crna na Koroskem
• FENACERCI – FEDERACAO NACIONAL DE COOPERATIVAS DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL COOPERATIVA FCRL