New horizons for the BLUE world Erasmus Project

Project Title

New horizons for the BLUE world

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Disabilities – special needs; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Today we are facing a professional and social exclusion of adult people with autism, this is the reason why we have developed a team of professionals in our project that will contribute to the creation of an educational alternative that respects their learning pace and will contribute to improving their chance of employability. So they will have the opportunity not only to integrate into the social life but also for new opportunities to develop their own personal autonomy and even to establish their own family. With the help of specialists, our role in the project is to capitalize on the potential and the qualities of adults with autism by specializing them in professional fields that fit the job profile.

It is important to include technology in the professional profile as it is a field in which the demand for work is constantly increasing. Even if we face a large number of unemployed adults with autism, we can see that they have some essential characteristics that describe them. They have skills and abilities which is an advantage in certain work environments.

Participants
ADULTS WITH DISORDERS IN THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM
At the level of our project, the target group is represented by adults with autism spectrum disorders who have difficulties in social and professional integration. The elaboration of an educational program with the help of new technologies (e-learning platform) and an online counseling service will help to increase the integration in the work of the socially marginalized persons due to the disability that they present.

PSYCHOLOGISTS / SOCIAL ASSISTANTS / TEACHERS / SPECIALISTS IN THE FIELD
In order to achieve the objectives envisaged in the project, it is necessary to involve specialists from different professional categories:
* psychologists and educators will develop educational content and methods of working with adults with autism, they will also develop guidance for employers;
* social workers will identify the adult persons with autism who want to participate in the training and find a job, they will also contribute to the formation of the database;
* IT specialists will develop e-learning platform and online counseling service;

We appreciate that we will have 2000 participants who will be the beneficiaries of the project.

The project is addressed to adults with autism who are integrated into society and the workplace. Our goal is to develop their personal autonomy, the ability to search for a job, how to prepare for the interview and how to cope with the job. We will also have the opportunity to offer them the chance to interact with the local community member,s the volunteers of the partner organizations, specialists, trainers so that they will establish new communication relationships and, at the same time, new horizons will be opened to them.

Project results:
O1 E-learning platform
1. Design of graphic elements and themes;
2. The pedagogical content that we want to use within the platform will be selected;
3. Centralizing Information;
4. Designing the system of final evaluation and verification of knowledge;

O2 Virtual Assistant
1. Selecting the scenario that we want to present to the beneficiaries and strategies for work counseling;
2. Developing content and dialogue with;
3. Developing the personalized intervention plan;
4. Establishing an assistance program in the languages for each country;
5. The evaluation;

O3 Employer’s guide
1. Preparation of the teaching material;
2. Selection of existing techniques and methods;
3. Presentation of the characteristics of adults with autism;
4. Selection of the preparation methods of an interview by the employer:

Impact:
Short-term impact:
* providing new, innovative teaching materials for adult training centers and diversifying the educational offer for adults with autism spectrum disorders;
* the associations and the institutions of the profile will benefit of new and innovative instruments that will contribute to the social and professional integration of the people with autistic disorders; improving the quality of life of the disabled;

Medium and long term impact:
* Adults with autism will have the opportunity to participate in vocational training tailored to their needs to improve their skills and abilities and will learn how to get and keep a job;
* Adult with autism will change vision on learning, learning can be attractive through the use of technology and adapted to the need;

Sustainability:
* constant updating of the teaching material within the e-learning platform for a minimum period of 5 years (responsible for the partners from Romania and Italy);
* for counseling and virtual assistance services Russian partner – Namoi will assume the responsibility of providing the services whenever they will be requested for a 5 years;
* considering the innovation of the project with a direct impact on beneficiares, we will continue to develop new collaborative relationships at the level of local communities

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167315 Eur

Project Coordinator

Cercle Augustin d’Hippone & Country: FR

Project Partners

• International Institute of Applied Psychology and Human Sciences associazione culturale
• Namoi
• INTEGRARE EUROPEANA IN DOMENIUL TINERETULUI, SPORTULUI, VOLUNTARIATULUI SI CETATENIEI ACTIVE EUROPENE
• SC PSIHOFORWORLD
• STANDO LTD