MOON CLIMBERS Erasmus Project

Project Title

MOON CLIMBERS

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

A young person with intellectual disabilities who becomes an adult must do more to achieve their dreams than others: Living in a home, choosing with whom to live, attend university, have a job, have a sentiment relationship, etc. through the Moon Climbers project, we intended to develop and promote an innovative, effective and replicable methodological model, with the aim of supporting people with intellectual disabilities (from now on) in the process of adulthood, autonomy and self-determination, while demonstrating the validity of these innovations and promoting their dissemination at Italian and European level.
The project, which started in September 2018, was due to close in September 2020 but, due to the COVID-19 emergency, it was extended until 31.05.2021, with a total duration of 33 months.
Project partners were: The social cooperative Il Sogno di una Cosa (leader), the Municipality of Turin, the Prodis Foundation of Madrid and Acta Center in Oradea. ‘Action research’ was carried out, on the basis of common working protocols, and ‘methodological research’, through which the work carried out was redesigned and linked to the existing literature on the subjects covered and other similar experiences.
End recipients: 45 so called intellectual (15 in each country), 50 in the second year, aged between 18 and 35.
OBJECTIVES:
— Promoting adulthood, autonomy and self-determination of intellectual matters, with a view to actively combating institutionalisation and segregation.
— Promote the social inclusion of intellectual activities, including through pathways at Community level in which they can perceive themselves and be perceived as a resource for the community.
— Promote a transformation of approach in services for so-called services, with a view to overcoming the vision of care and fostering empowerment and active life, helping to trigger effective and economically viable processes.
RESULTS ACHIEVED:
PREPARATION OF FOUR I.O.:
1. Development of Peer Education for people with Intellectual disabilities
2. Training for adult life
3. Pedagogical system of “Industrious life”
4. Study on the inclusion of people with Intellectual disabilities in the university
BROADENING AND STRENGTHENING THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP NETWORK
Construction of three L.T.T.A.:
Professional training on Peer Education and Training for adulthood, Turin — October 2018.
Training of professionals in the Industrious life system and on the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the University, Turin — September 2019.
Final testing with people with intellectual disabilities involved (in virtual mode) December 2020 and January 2021.
Construction of three T.P.M.:
Madrid, December 2018
Oradea, June 2019
Virtual Mode, September 2020.

Implementation of three M.E.:
Rimini — November 2019
Oradea — January 2021
Turin — May 2021 in webinar mode

Results, impacts, long-term benefits.
In drawing up the “methodological guides”, we realised how closely the various I.Os were interlinked with each other, with the Training for adulthood as the main focus of the project.
For this reason, contrary to what was established at the design stage, following a comparison with the Agency Indire, it was considered appropriate to draw up a single methodological guide, subdivided into the various chapters specific to each I.O, in order to improve their systematisation and to disseminate them more effectively.
The organisations involved have been able to implement the methodological approach, project capacity and the construction of a European cooperation network.

Coop. Il Sogno di una Cosa — Italy.
Work is ongoing in Turin to create an innovative supply of services for living in an evolutionary way; The co-housing of the Cooperative was transformed into a Service for Autonomy, with an area dedicated to adult learning experiments.
A co-design table is in place with the Municipality of Turin to include Training in the service chain in Turin, assuming in January 2022. New projects are being developed for the inclusion of ‘people with intellectual disabilities’ in the university, starting with the Spanish model (in collaboration with the University of Turin and Urbino). A discussion table was set up at national level on training for adult life, for the moment in remote mode.

Prodis Foundation — Spain.
In addition to introducing the Peer Education approach into their educational practices, Moon Climbers has enriched and consolidated the Promentor University Master’s degree (currently 27 other Spanish universities have decided to replicate the model of the U.A.M.).

ACTA Center — Romania
Romania has promoted a change of perspective of family and society on the real possibilities of participating young people, leading to significant changes in the lives of some of them. Two of them found a job.

Project Website

http://www.ilsognodiunacosa.org/erasmus-moon-climbers/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 219553 Eur

Project Coordinator

Società Cooperativa Sociale “Il Sogno di una Cosa” O.N.L.U.S. & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FUNDACION PRODIS
• COMUNE DI TORINO
• Asociatia Centrul European pentru Integrare Socioprofesionala ACTA