Обединети во инклузијата за вработување (UNited in Inclusion for EmployabiliTY)

"<< Background >>In the context of a rapidly changing world, the future of work is an issue drawing the attention of many individuals and organisations. It is a global concern, posing important challenges that need to be addressed urgently. One such challenge is how to ensure that the future of work is inclusive, leaving no one behind, including the one billion persons with disabilities living on our planet. Ensuring an inclusive future of work is part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, where there is explicit reference to persons with disabilities inclusion in the context of decent work and economic growth. This project is intended for adults with disabilities and their support for transition into the labor market from education and training, and making employment accessible by providing essential information and guidelines for employers, improving competences of educators and for the persons with disabilities as well. This project also aims to help people with disabilities by creating innovative supporting employment methods and establishing them as equals in the labor market. Additional priorities are referring to Extending and developing the competences of educators and other personnel working with adults with disabilities.<< Objectives >>The key objective of this project is to contribute by creating dynamic and inclusive sensitive tools for use across Europe to support unemployed adults with disabilities to be fairly included in the labor market and to ease the transition process of education and training to employment, by: - Creating evidence-based best practices in the area of inclusion of persons with disabilities (PwDs) into the Labor market;- Digitalization of the inclusion practices for PwDs into the Labor market by creation of accessible OER; - Creating accessible tool for employment ""European passport for employment"" of persons with disabilities; - Supporting business sector for employing persons with disabilities by creating special tool for working and engaging with them at the workplace; - Building capacities (competences and skills) of professionals involved in education and training of PwDs; - Foster quality improvements and excellence in innovation at the cross-sectoral level through enhanced transnational cooperation between educational institutions dealing with adult education and business sector (employers); - Promote and strengthen knowledge and acceptance of diversity in society.<< Implementation >>Increasing the number of persons with disabilities (PwDs) in the labor market requires a comprehensive approach which this project offers, making use of a wide range of measures. Key among them are: - collaborating with companies/employers to create more inclusive workplaces; - strengthening the vocational and other professional skills of persons with disabilities; - upgrading competences of teachers and other professionals involved in education process of persons with disabilities; as well as - promoting a conducive policy and legal environment for the wage employment of persons with disabilities. Hence, these three groups will directly benefit from this project: people with disabilities, employers (business sector) and teachers/professionals involved in the education process of persons with disabilities. This project is one step towards decreasing negative statistics of unemployment of persons with disabilities and a small contribution for social inclusion. The socioeconomic part of integration of persons with disabilities that essentially reflects the quality of life of this category of people, where employment occupies an important place, is an indicator of the success of the holistic treatment of persons with disabilities. Transnational project implementation is vital because of the fact that unemployment of persons with disabilities hits almost every country in the European Union, and this is one of the priorities of the Union integrated in social inclusion practices. Additional, transnational implementation of the project will provide exchange of good practices among the partners, which will lead towards more perceivable, operable and inclusive outputs and cooperation between counties in EU and beyond.<< Results >>According to the project objectives and activities, results and outcomes can be categorized as tangible and non-tangible. Tangible results are: - on-line open access educational resource (OER) accessible and operable for persons with disabilities intended for PwDs, employers and professionals in the area of teaching and rehabilitating PwDs, that will contain all project tools, materials, guides and good practices developed in the project; - Desk-top research about evidence-based best practices in the area of inclusion of PwDs into the Labor market; - Mini guide (manual/practicum) for employers about policies, expectations and support for employment of persons with disabilities and their integration in the workplace ""How to work with people with disabilities""; - Special flexible and self-advocacy tool for PwDs “European passport to employment"" that will help persons with disabilities make effective transition and inclusion into the labor market and workplaces; - Increased access to e-materials for teaching and employment of persons with disabilities; - Increased transnational cooperation in the field of adult education and training and inclusion of adults with disabilities. Non-tangible results are referring to: - Enhancing the transition from education and training to the world of labor for the persons from vulnerable groups (persons with disabilities); - Building professional capacities (competences and skills) of professionals involved in education and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities for career guidance and enabling successful preparation for the PwDs on the labor market; - Enhancing emancipation process of persons with disabilities and stimulation to be active participants in the labor market; - Supporting EU and UN policies about employment and active participation of persons with disabilities in all spheres of the society; - Stimulating business sector for employing persons with disabilities by creating accessible and practical guideline; - Greater understanding of diversity in the societies; - Raising awareness about the social inclusion of persons with disabilities in the mainstream societies; - Creating equal opportunities for persons with disabilities to use the Open educational resource and all educational and career tools developed in the project."