Universities for labour inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Universities for labour inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Inclusion – equity; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The project U4INCLUSION aims to contribute to the labour inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities with the delivery of a common curriculum to be implemented at higher education. Thus, based on partners previous experience at the national level, they will design together with a standardized training itinerary that can be susceptible to European homologation with the corresponding educational materials, and methodology. The final aim is to improve the employment rates of people with intellectual disabilities enabling them to be integrated into the labour market to ensure their full social inclusion.
Along the project lifecycle, partners will organize 4 transnational meetings to monitor the project performance: 2 intellectual outputs, 2 learning activities, and 4 multiplier event to disseminate the project outputs and raise the awareness of companies and other detected target groups of the benefits of hiring skilled people with intellectual disabilities. The activities planned will engage:
– 20 professionals participating in one of the learning activities;
– 30 students with intellectual disabilities between 18 and 30 years old participating in one of the learning activities;
– 10 accompanying persons for the 30 students mentioned above.
– 50 participants in each multiplier event held in the consortium countries. The main goal of this event is to disseminate the Os at the international level and to share with participants the results of the project and experiences.
The expected impact on the target groups are:
Students with intellectual disabilities: improve their labour inclusion skills, opportunities and social inclusion, and increase their language and digital competences and EU citizenship.
Professionals delivering training to people with intellectual disabilities: improve their skills with a dedicated itinerary for students with intellectual disabilities; increase their language competences and EU citizenship; reduce their burden; and increase the labour opportunities.
Companies: better knowledge of training programmes dedicated to improving the labour skills of young people with intellectual disabilities; increase their awareness about the benefits of hiring this group.

Project Website

http://www.u4inclusion.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 270510 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD MIGUEL HERNANDEZ DE ELCHE & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA
• THOMAS MORE KEMPEN VZW
• SENIOR EUROPA SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• Institut für Inklusive Bildung gemeinnützige GmbH