New opportunities of employment for social inclusion of women with disabilities -Ready Women for New Employments Erasmus Project

Project Title

New opportunities of employment for social inclusion of women with disabilities -Ready Women for New Employments

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: Disabilities – special needs; Access for disadvantaged; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

The economic and social crisis that Europe faced after Covid-19 severely hit the labour market and unemployment rates are increasing.

In this scenario, the aim of EU is to ensure that the right to training and lifelong learning, becomes a reality all across Europe, from cities to remote and rural areas, to the benefit of everyone. The Commission is placing skills at the heart of the EU policy agenda, steering investment in people and their skills for a sustainable recovery after the coronavirus pandemic.

Unemployment is particularly high among women and young people and this situation is exacerbated among disabled women who face a double discrimination: as women and as disabled people. In addition, these women are more vulnerable because of issues related to health-work balance, limited availability for training and access to resources, accessibility barriers, mental or psychological problems among others.

Through the project, to offer new opportunities and innovative instruments to physical and sensory disabled women for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability. Thanks to an European cooperation established by an appropriate mix of complementary organisations coming from different fields but sharing characteristics and objectives, this instrument introduces new methodologies and tools to make easier the training access, assessment and development of competences and their transference to the labour context.

So, the general objective of READY WOMEN project is to offer new opportunities and innovative instruments to adult women with disabilities for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability and integration into the labour market, mainly through training actions related to the New Yields of Employment (NYE) and emerging sectors.

This innovative training program for social inclusion of disabled women through access to new yields of employment met the following specific objectives:

Develop a qualitative study on relations between disabled women (mainly physical, organic and sensory disabilities) and employment opportunities on the NYE and the emerging sectors in each of the European regions covered by the project.
Design of contents for implementation of a transnational training course aimed to staff partners on how to teach and train on basic & professional competences and soft skills for women with physical and sensory disabilities.
Development of educational content and subsequent implementation of a specific training course in basic & professional competences and soft skills aimed to facilitate the access to employment in NYE for disabled women, as well as training the use of ITCs.
Development of Virtual Community of European women with disabilities and training for employment in NYE, putting them in contact each other and with other disabled women already employed, in order to share experiences, knowledge, training, etc. It will be also uploaded to the site the educational content developed for wide spreading.
Pilot implementation of accompanying process to access to employment for participant disabled women
Disseminate results, training programme and tools created at national and transnational levels.
Establish an evaluation Plan, report and improvement recommendation to implement the designed training programme

READY WOMEN project, was implemented by an association of 10 organisations from 7 countries (Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Spain and Turkey).

In general, the target participants of the project were women with fewer opportunities because their disability and low qualification. Specifically, READY WOMEN Project piloted its training program with two main target group: with women with physical and sensory disabilities but also with other associated disabilities (intellectual, mental…). More than 200 women with physical and/or sensory disabilities participated in the different phases/activities. Also more than 50 trainers and educators tested the training programme and the results were disseminated to more than 200.000 people which have brought the following results:

– 1 training program for social inclusion of disabled women through access to NYE.
– Qualitative study REPORT on relations between disabled women and employment opportunities on the NYE available in 8 languages.
– Contents and implementation of a transnational training course aimed to staff partners on how to teach and train on basic & professional competences and soft skills for women with physical disabilities.
– Virtual Community of European women with disabilities and training for employment in NYE ( more than 136 registered women).
– Piloting: Training courses (108 women) and accompanying process to employment for participant disabled women ( 80 women).
– 7 Multiplier events and 1 Final conference attended for more than 200 stakeholders.

Project Website

http://readywomen.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 330426 Eur

Project Coordinator

FEDERACION PROVINCIAL DE ASOCIACIONES DE PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD FISICA Y ORGANICA DE SEVILLA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istanbul Gelisim Universitesi
• Previform – Laboratório, Formação, Higiene e Segurança do Trabalho, Lda
• Fondazione Istituto dei Sordi di Torino ONLUS
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO
• Associazione eurokom
• EUROPEAN REGIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR CO-OPERATION
• Surekli Egitim, Arastirma ve Danisma Dernegi