My Education – My Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

My Education – My Future

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 : Capacity Building for youth in neighbouring and enlargement countries

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

“My Education – My Future” – maximizing inclusion of disabled people into university experience was a 15-month innovative project. The main objective of the project was to enlighten the challenges that youth with disabilities encounter while they study at universities. 6 partner organizations from 6 countries (3 EU and 3 EaP) came together to discuss problems about educational possibilities of disabled youngsters at universities and some obstacles preventing the execution of their study rights. Meanwhile, the framework of this project was engineered to share and exchange some national experiences of different countries on educational status of youngsters with disabilities. The project involved following major activities:1.Coordination and Management Meetings2.“Future Leader” (Job Shadowing Programme)3.Local Training of Trainers4.“Equal Opportunity” Public Awareness and Advocacy CampaignsThe main objective of the project was to empower participants who had the capacity to discuss and find ways for successful integration of disabled youngsters at universities, develop strategies and abilities to cope with problems at university life among the young people from EU and EaP countries and to develop the competence of youth groups to incorporate the abilities and knowledge of disabled students in their activities.ObjectivesTo look for better ways for inclusion of disabled university students.To gather information and experience from different countries. To form a data bank or a network that was a reference for student facing discrimination because of their disability so that they can more clearly express their needs.To discuss and gather practical methods for inclusion of disabled people in higher education and other fields of life.To inform young people and youth organisations about the possibilities introduced by “Erasmus+” projects.To empower disabled students in their activities towards better inclusion in higher education and stimulate their civil rights.To disseminate the project and the topic among university students and communities by active campaign and organizations exhibition.To analyse official legislation for disabled people in each EaP country on practical and political level.“My Education – My Future” definitely had a niche among the projects aiming to maximize disabled people’s inclusion at universities, as well as in accentuating the problems that they encounter and offered solutions to them. One of the many positive results that was achieved by the Project were international and domestic projects within the Erasmus+ Program framework, in particular youth exchanges, training courses, study visits, seminars, job shadowing scheme on the topic of disability. Project also created an accumulative effect since participants are going to use the knowledge and experience that they gained during the campaign. Dissemination also plays an important role in positioning the project as quite practical and useful for all universities and governmental agencies in EaP countries. Participants that represented various universities spread the results and ideas on the local level among their students and university communities. Within the conceptual model of job shadowing activity offered by the project three youth workers from each partner organization representing the countries such as Azerbaijan, Belarus and Ukraine took part in ten days job shadowing in another partner organisation in UK, Spain and Czech Republic. During the job shadowing activity participants got to know various types of activities provided for disabled people, intercultural aspect of work with disabled people, project management on this topic in another culture. They improved their skills and shared their own experience not only with hosting organisation’s team but also with people who had experience to work with disabled people.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121396 Eur

Project Coordinator

TEBIB TIBBI MAARIFLENDIRME ICTIMAI BIRLIYI & Country: AZ

Project Partners

• NON GOVERNMENTAL PUBLIC ORGANIZATION CHANCELOG FOUNDATION
• ASOCIACION CULTURAL PROXIMA EDUCACION
• NEFELI EDUCATION COMMUNITY INTERESTCOMPANY
• MEZINARODNI VZDELAVACI CENTRUM GEMS
• ASSOTSITSIA DOPOLNITELNOGO OBRAZOVANIYA I PROSVESHTENIYA