The project MobiPhys enables mobilities to Italy for 20 pupils and 6 VET-staffs in vocational training for physio-therapists of UVDS.Our schools want to contribute that our pupils acquire necessary qualifications to participate to the European employment market. The learners will be supported in acquiring professional and intercultural competences and they will improve their awareness for other countries and cultures. The VET-staff will have the chance to use the international networking in order to become acquainted with different methods. They will be enabled to teach their pupils an attitude of European Citizenship.The pupils will be sent to Italy for 30 days in order to absolve a practical training. This practical training is based on German law concerning the vocational training for physio-therapists. The practical training can be absolved either during the regular time of vocational training or after having completed it. Our experienced Italian partners will choose the eligible traineeships in Italy. The VET-staff will travel to Italy for 2 days in order to conduct a job shadowing. The target is an exchange of methods and impacts of the different training systems. The international orientation of our school will be enhanced by this exchange and we will improve our ability to commit ourselves to the needs of learners in Europe. Preparation and monitoring via IKT are brought into special focus of this project: using our learning- and communication-platform ILIAS, all participants can be coached independent from their location. At any time they have the possibility to get every information they need. This project will be conducted for the first time in 2015.

Background Throughout Europe, informal carers cover 80% of long-term care. Family members are the largest care providers for older, frail, disabled and chronically ill people of all ages. However, caring for a loved one often comes with a considerable personal cost to family carers, including many financial, professional, health and social consequences. Most of informal carers are at risk of social exclusion and there is a need to help them to move from social isolation to active participation. As having unpaid caregiving responsibilities is often undervalued, there is also a need to raise informal carers' profile for themselves, and also for the society as a whole, by developing and validating the large set of skills that are required to be an informal carer. Main objective the CareEr project aims at empowering informal carers through a new training device created by and for informal carers. Based on three areas of key competences and self-assessment, CareEr will contribute to improve informal carers' condition as well as the quality of informal care. Description of activities First of all, the capital letter E of 'CareEr' stands for 'Engaging' and 'Empowering' informal carers. in total, 105 informal carers from 7 EU countries will participate in the CareEr project. Some of them will be engaged in local focus groups and 7 of them (one per participating country) will travel to Belgium, Greece and Italy to make their voice heard during the co-development phase of the CareEr training device. Empowerment also stems from the knowledge and competences that they will gain through their participation in three tailor-made training modules conducted by qualified trainers: 12 trainers will take part in a transnational training for trainers in order to enable them to master this new training device. Finally, in the context of free movement between countries, Empowerment will also result from achieving 'mutual recognition of validated skills' in the European labour market. The capital letter E also stands for the 'e-platform' that will be co-designed from the orientation taken in the Strategic focus groups. This new gaming-based virtual tool will contribute to help informal carers to move from isolation to a connected community of European informal carers and therefore, raise their awareness of the fact that they play an important role in the European care sectors. From this e-platform, they will be able to access learning materials in their own language, including e-learning and self-evaluation tools. Finally, CareEr also refers to career prospects that any informal carer should be allowed to have. As such, the CareEr project will support young carers and carers in employment to combine their caregiving responsibilities with their study or their job. For those in unemployment, CareEr will contribute to bridge the gap between the informal and the formal care sector and to increase informal carers work readiness. CareEr will link to previous EU projects and will up-to-date effective skills recognition tools dedicated to informal carers in order to make them more visible and attractive on the labour market. Impact The consortium made of European Civil Society organisations engaged in the care sector, a local authority and a university, aims at delivering innovative training materials including a training tool based on a e-platform enabling informal carers to improve their knowledge and competences. CareEr will contribute to improve the quality of informal care in Europe.

The PREG-EQUAL project addresses the horizontal priority of Social Inclusion and aims at promoting equity and combating all types of discrimination based on disability and gender. Reproductive, Pregnancy and Maternal Health is a priority for WHO, Unicef, the Sustainable Development Goals from the United Nations and all member-states. Women with disability live not only difficulties in access but also disappointment and bad experiences concerning “emotional well being and support, effective information dissemination, appropriate communication and understanding, involvement in decision making and support to build respect and trusting relationships with health care providers” (M., 2018). Erasmus+ states as a priority “promote the participation of people from disadvantaged groups, with less opportunities and/or with special needs, in order to potentiate equity and inclusion” (Priorities 2018). General aims: 1. Enhance life quality of women with disability and their families; 2. Promote inclusion, equity and their participation in civil society; 3. Enhance their participation skills, health knowledge and behaviours; 4. Enhance health professional skills concerning relation to people with disabilities; 5. Develop VET tailored answers related to real in job needs in the area of disability and health. Specific aims: 1. Foment knowledge and consciousness for women with disability on reproductive matters, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (VIP), sexual health, pregnancy, maternity healthy behaviours and emotional support; 2. Improve psychological, emotional support and informational support for women with disability by empowering their families and sexual/marital partners; 3. Improve better health care services and psychological and emotional support for women with disability by preparing health professionals to effectively communicate, disseminate information and create trustful relations; 4. Collect data in the partner countries national wide to assess numbers of women with disability in pre-natal and maternity care public health system and evaluate the quality of care. The tangible results will be: O1) Women with Disability and Empowerment on Reproductive Choices and Maternity - tailored training program to inform and empower women with disability on reproductive choices, VIP, sexual health, pregnancy health, maternity rights, obligations and public health services (45 participants); O2) Families and the Importance to Support Reproductive Choices and Maternity of Women with Disability - tailored training program to families and sexual/marital partners of women with disability to empower them to better support and inform these women (30 participants); O3) Health Professionals and Women with Disability – The Right to Information, Knowledge and Quality of Services – high quality training to help professionals better support and inform women with disability, communicate effectively, build a respect and trustful relation, specificities of intellectual disability like understanding information, type of information that is more appropriate, main doubts and concerns and the importance of involving family (40 participants); O4) PREG-EQUAL: Women with disability - The Right to Information, Knowledge and Quality on Prevention and Accompaniment in Pregnancy – results and analysis of a research carried out nationally in each country to assess conditions and quality of service that is given to women with disability in pre-natal and maternal public services (at least a 65% respondent rate per country). The project will also include a B-Mobility of VET Learners that involves 12 participants from the target-groups divided as following: 1 health professional, 2 women with disability and 1 familiar or sexual/marital partner to attend a training activity, led by the CDF in october 2019, on “Pre-Natal Care and Maternity Care, Reproductive Choices and Fundamental Rights”. It will include the approach to the theme by experts from CDF and the Faculty of Psychology from the UC, visits to the Risk Unit of Daniel de Matos Maternity, other Maternal Care centres and VET institutions for people with disability. The added value of the activity is directly involving the target-groups, particularly women with disability and their families, in learning opportunities abroad allowing them to reflect themselves in the European space and promoting a sense of world citizenship. 5 Transnational Meetings are strategically scheduled approximately each 6 months to monitor the development and good quality of the IO and plan the implementation of further activities and products. A Dissemination Plan will be carried out to make the project Visible, Create and Raise Awareness, Promote the results and Engage participants, key stakeholders, policy makers and Ministries. Four multiplier events will be developed bringing to discussion all parties at international scale to divulge the results and the publications of the Training Manuals and the PREG-EQUAL

The project had a partnership made of 5 European countries Italy, France, Belgium, Romania and Portugal, and had Fondazione IRPEA from Padua, Italy, as coordinator.The focus of the “DARE” pathway were the services for home assistance as central element to be reformed in the wider context of the assistance to the person, a choice motivated by the conviction that the support the persons in difficulty and their carers might receive at home influences their right to be cared at home, avoiding also the recoveries in residential structures, already not enough compared to the number of requests.The perspective of a change of paradigm in this sector, focused on the a holistic approach regarding the needs and the resources, was confirmed during the whole project. Starting from the obvious lack of dedicated public resources, in most of the European countries, and from the deep changes appeared in the modern families, the project facilitated the approach to very diversified initiatives.The 5 visits for the exchange of best practices – to Bucharest, Brussel, Bastia, Coimbra and Padua – involved 106 available places – but some of the professionals participated to more than one visit. The two internal Focus Groups (in Bucharest and Padua), the Final Workshop (Padua) and the intense exchanges via e-mail between the project coordinators of each partner confirmed that the objective of creating a “community of practice” had been reached: the group will continue to pay attention to the innovation in the sector of home and residential care and will search for opportunities of building projects centered on the transfer of best practices, perhaps also enlarging the partnership to other countries.The diversity of the professional profiles involved was another objective reached (directors and coordinators of organizations associated to the partners, professional educators, healthcare technicians, home assistants, responsible for the communication, occupational therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists, experts from the planning department). In terms of direct impact, the opportunity to participate to one or more visits facilitated a training “on the field” and contributed to the widening of their vision on the utility and the functioning of integrated services, which also imply the rethinking of the necessary competences. Besides, the direct contact with different cultures of approaching care and cure gave them the elements of a necessary intercultural approach.As it emerged from the Observation Form of the Best Practices, filled in by each partner after each visit, TRAINING and CONTINUOUS REQUALIFICATION of the professionals from the different home assistance services, are essential in order to educate them to the vision of the integration of interventions/services meant to improve the quality of life of the assisted persons and to favor the social inclusion process of the disadvantaged persons.Through the continuous dissemination activity, around 36.000 persons were reached, a public made mainly of experts from the third sector at the national and European level, local/national/European stakeholders, professionals from the healthcare and education sector, public institutions.The partnership had started from an initial situation of differentiation both due to the type of organization and to the integration level of the existing services. According to the options expressed by the partners during the final Focus Group, the model of the “integrated desks/CARE HUBS” remains the ideal one needed for a real innovation of the assistance services (domiciliary and non), even if differentiated according to the culture and to the existing legislation of each country.The collection of the 26 best practices in a e-book (available in EPUB and PDF format) allowed a deeper reflection on the models and initiatives observed and the collection of the organizations and the territories involved.The partnership followed the double meaning of the word “DARE”: “to donate”, in Italian, and therefore aim at the quality of life of the persons for whom, as professionals, we are responsible, and “to dare”, in English, as a really sustainable welfare allover Europe, homogenous in terms of quality and quantity, cannot be possible without OVERCOMING the traditional division of the assistance and care services based on “target groups”.Being convinced that that innovation is possible event with small (but strategic) steps, the idea of foreseeing, on more territories, the creation of Integrated Desks for care and assistance (not only domiciliary one) remains an objective to be carried on. The “DARE” project helped the partners also in facing the real dimensions of the needed changes in order to reach, even partly, this objective.

"Le vieillissement démographique rampant est l’un des principaux facteurs déterminant le futur de l’Europe et le développement de l’économie globale. L’espérance de vie a fortement augmenté aussi pour les personnes handicapées, menant à un défi majeur pour la société, mais aussi de grandes opportunités pour la croissance économique et l’emploi, dont ce qu’on appelle la ""Silver Economie"". Les adultes vieillissants et les plus âgés peuvent être considérés comme des ressources précieuses qui peuvent contribuer à la société et vivre de manière active tout en générant de nouveaux emplois et de la croissance. Ils peuvent être considérés comme un atout sur un marché du travail en berne et comme des bénévoles, qui fournissent des services précieux à la société et à l'économie. Cela s’applique aussi aux personnes handicapées, puisque souvent en Europe ils bénéficieront plus tôt (autour des 60 ans) d’une pension minimum qui dans la plupart des cas ne fournira pas assez de revenus et de ressources pour leur propre subsistance & soins médicaux, il est donc nécessaire de créer des mécanismes pour les encourager et leur permettre de rester actif le plus longtemps possible dans un environnement professionnel. De plus, selon la publication du CE en 2017 “Growing the European Silver Economy” , on estime qu’aux environs de 2060 un Européen sur trois sera âgé de plus de 65 ans, en raison du départ à la retraite d'une main-d'œuvre vieillissante et du manque des nouvelles recrues, on prévoit une pénurie d’environ 2 millions de professionnels de santé dans l'UE d'ici 2020. Dans ce cadre, le projet SILVER+: “Silver Economy as a new pathway to foster entrepreneurship and facilitate the disabled persons’ insertion and reinsertion in labour market” a pour but de développer une méthodologie de formation innovante et de fixer un ensemble d’outils en ligne, qui permet à ces personnes travaillant avec les personnes handicapées de s’adapter aux nouveaux défis posés par l'augmentation de leur espérance de vie et donc, cela répond au besoin de les maintenir autant que possible dans un travail actif, évitant ainsi leur retrait prématuré du travail. De plus, SILVER+ améliore ainsi le potentiel d'employabilité, tant au niveau national que transnational, des éducateurs et des professionnels de santé ainsi que des personnes désireuses de créer de nouvelles entreprises dans le cadre de la ""Silver économie"" (notamment les entreprises sociales). Dans son ensemble, le projet relies s'appuie sur 7 organisations complémentaires représentant la France, l'Espagne, l'Italie, la Belgique et la Pologne et, s'engage dans le développement des principaux résultats suivants (tous disponibles en EN,FR,ES,IT,PL): a) Développement de 2 cadres de compétences spécifiques : (1)Le Cadre de Compétences Entrepreneuriales de la Silver Economie adressé aux professionnels de santé et aux éducateurs impliqués dans la formation et l’insertion/réinsertion par le travail des personnes handicapées vieillissantes et des personnes âgées (2) Compétences numériques, financières et d'employabilité pour les jeunes et les adultes handicapés b) Une plateforme d’apprentissage en ligne conçue pour former les professionnels de santé et les éducateurs en favorisant l’insertion et la réinsertion par le travail à la fois des jeunes et des personnes âgées qui vivent avec des handicaps physiques et/ou mentaux . Les modules d’apprentissage en ligne seront aussi conçus afin de favoriser l'employabilité et le potentiel entrepreneurial dans ce secteur de la Silver économie des travailleurs déjà impliqués ainsi que des nouveaux arrivants et des parties intéressées. c) Un toolkit de renforcement des capacités : Développement d’une Méthodologie et de Lignes Directrices en complément de la mobilité mixte de 20 Membres du personnel (Formation de formateurs) , au cours de laquelle les modules d'apprentissage en ligne font également partie des activités de formation et d'essai. d) Un manuel de projet adressé aux Educateurs et aux Professionnels de Santé en plus de résumer et de promouvoir les résultats du projet auprès d'un public plus large, il est conçu comme un guide facilement accessible rempli d'outils, de stratégies, d'approches, de bonnes pratiques et de ressources en ligne/hors ligne pour les éducateurs et les professionnels de santé au sein de l'industrie sociale et travaillant avec des personnes handicapées. e) Cours pilote sur le groupe cible secondaire de 50 personnes handicapées. L'objectif principal sera de tester les compétences acquises par le groupe cible direct et de les mettre en pratique auprès des bénéficiaires finaux, ce qui permettra d'accroître la portée et l'impact du projet sur les jeunes et les personnes âgées handicapées, qui seront formées et dotées de tous les outils nécessaires pour être et rester actives."