"Employment for Independent Life aims including the individuals with intellectual disability in work life.Therefore the priorities of the project are as given below: -Disability is element of social exclusion.We aim to ensure that individuals with intellectual disability participate in social and work life and integrate them with the community;and increase their basic and employability quality,and motivate them to use their potential.-Training will be provided to the personnel who will be responsible for the job placement of individuals with intellectual disability after graduation.So, we plan to improve the qualifications of staff working on education of individuals with intellectual disability.-The training program,as the project output,will be introduced to vocational counselors and teachers working with individuals with intellectual disability.They will be expected to apply this programme in employment process of individuals with intellectual disability.With the task sharing between project partners,a training program will be developed for the personnel responsible for the employment procedure of individuals with intellectual disability.Training will be provided to the target group. Piloting results of the training programme in different countrieswill be evaluated.The participants will share opinions about the process.The employment practice for individuals with intellectual disability will be discussed,and an employment model will be proposed as the project output.The model will be compatible with the EU standarts and policies.Participating organisation:Anadolu University(Turkey),Eskisehir Governorship(Turkey),Eskisehir Provincial Directorate of National Education(Turkey),Down Syndrome Association(Turkey),The Association Study Center City of Foligno(Italy),INTRAS(Spain), Die Querdenker (Austria), The organisations work on employment of the disabled and will focus on individuals with intellectual disabilities. Target group:People and organisations that will provide counseling to individuals with intellectual disability on sustainable employment matters such as job placement, job preparation,job skills,job continuity,orientation to workplace and workplace rules, adaptation to work.With the European Platform Against Poverty and Social Exclusion,an attempt of Europe 2020 Strategy;-combating social exclusion and poverty,-promoting social inclusion,-promoting social economy through a collaborative approach are aimed.The project will contribute to the 2020 strategy with collaboration of stakeholder countries and local partner organizations.With the model in the EU standards for preparing individuals with intellectual disability for employment,the inaccuracy will be minimized and a common language will be established. We plan 3 Transnational Project Meeting. The participants of partner organisations will be as given:Kick-off Meeting in Italy with 10,Spain Mobility with 12,Austria Mobility with 10.We plan 2 Multiplier Events:Opening Symposium For Situation Analysis Report with 100 participants in local+24 participants from EU states;Final Symposium For Sharing Results 100 participants in local+15 participants from EU states including Law and Policy makers,teachers working in special education of individuals with intellectual disability,Academics working in special education departments of universities,vocational counselors responsible for job placement of the disabled,representatives of the Chamber of Industry and Chamber of Commerce to represent the employers,provincial directors of public institutions,municipalities and local governments,NGO representatives and families of these individuals.Partner organizations will introduce employment practices of individuals with intellectual disability during mobilities, workshops and symposiums.A report will be prepared by analyzing the practice.This report will form the basis for the training program and help us to create other outputs of the project.During the situation analysis process, each partner country will take short videos showing their employment practices to create an ""experience film"". Training program will be developed for the personnel responsible for the employment of individuals with intellectual disability, planned to be composed of six sections, will be presented to the stakeholders with digital and printed materials and on a web page.Programme book will be written and distributed to the stakeholders.The training of the personnel responsible for the job placement of individuals with intellectual disability will become widespread.Personnel who completed the training will place three individuals with intellectual disability in the job. The personnel will implement the supported employment model in line with the training.With semi-structured interviews, we will learn their views and experiences on the job placement process and make necessary arrengements.Finally, an employment model will be developed after piloting for EU countries."

"The sem@schools.eu project aims to promote the orientation of young people through an academic apprenticeship able to put the young learners involved in a position to increase their skills and to make them aware of the employment opportunities related to the energy sector . The aim of the project is therefore to raise the awareness of educational bodies on the themes of the green economy and to train young people from different European countries on the new professional profiles related to the energy in the building sector in a European vision . The partnership integrates operators in the field of training and the European energy sector, as well as from 80 VET schools where 1500 students will be directly involved in the activities students and 10,000 others informed. Target population are young people between 16 and 18 years , the schools, the institutions responsible for the management of educational / training interventions, economic operators in the energy sector.The objective of the proposed action is to improve the energy performance of school buildings in Europe , demonstrating concretely how you can get significant results in terms of reduction of CO2 emission starting from schools, associating it with a curricular growth of the young people involved. Therefore, in line with European initiatives on Open Education and New Skills for New Jobs, the actions of the project sem@schools.eu clearly respond to two specific objectives of the Erasmus program + in the field of education and training :1 ) the enhancement of transversal key skills critical to the marketability of the vocational training courses in the world of work2 ) innovation of training courses in a complementary way with policy reforms implemented at national level in order to modernize the VET systemsThe project intends to achieve three different levels of results that will affect the participants and the different actors involved :Behavioral improvements- Gain awareness of the energy problem , with particular attention to the rational use of energy- Be able to change their attitudes and habits towards the use of various forms of energy- Gain awareness of the problem of protecting the environment and better lifestyles through the transfer of experience to their families Improvement of specific knowledge in the field of energy and energy efficiency in buildings- Acquire knowledge of traditional and renewable energy , energy-environment issues, energy requirements- Know how to prepare an energy analysis and an Plan for the energetic improvement of the buildings, through the study of new technologies and innovation in the sector.- Know how to use computer technologyImproving the capacity of vocational guidance- Know how to connect the current energy and environmental issues to trasforming political sets, with socio-economic scenarios and scientific-technological progress- Raise awareness among students of higher secondary institutes on ""green jobs"" and career opportunities directly or indirectly related to the development of the Green Economy (renewable energy and energy saving)The overall architecture of the project has been designed in such a way as to ensure that testing is not mere application by recipients of their proposed model , but necessarily imply their involvement in the co-production of outcomes and expected results. This imprinting substantiates the sustainability of results and products beyond the expiry date of the project, as it lays the groundwork for the full implementation, within the systems and target organisms, of a set of issues identified as good practices. For this reason the project is configured itself as an exploitation action, because not only tends to disseminate tools and methods but to acquire and internalize, by the contexts of arrival, substantive elements of change, with the objective of impacting on the demand of services from user -beneficiaries with relevance and efficiency."

The NEET U project combines two of the most important social and educational challenges in 21st century Europe – re-activating the overwhelming social and educational potential of the increasing number of experienced seniors in society to help counter the dramatic increase in depressed social situations among young people – with the mission to generate social and educational value from the dynamic interaction between these two “out of economy” population groups.NEET youth situations across Europe is approaching dramatic proportions and neither public authorities nor private stakeholders seem able to mobilize the needed resources to efficiently counter this situation and to offer NEET youth the long-term capacity building they really need.Therefore available, qualified, yet unexploited resources in the communities must be activated and mobilized to contribute to finding ways out of those depressed social situations.NEET U is born out of this mission, prepared through several successful European initiatives identifying the unexplored potentials of bringing together experienced seniors and NEET youth.The NEET U consortium brings together 9 partners from 7 European countries, including practice partners, knowledge partners, a special social innovation partners and an experienced quality partner. The project is coordinated by Pistes Solidaires from France.Every practice partner was able to develop workshops with the Seniors to prepare them to work with NEETs, an audience with specific needs. The NEETs who took part in the project were able to advance in their personal project and to find solutions to their problems.The Seniors were able to develop their skills not only in developing the guidance of the NEETS but also technical skills thanks to their work on the portfolios or through the production of videos. This work was allowed especially by the two learning activities set in United Kingdom and Spain.The partners took ownership of the project methodology and gave the opportunity to their participants not only to develop their skills and competences but also to to re-learn what they could bring to their communities. The Seniors and the NEETs could regain their self-assurance. 114 NEETs were reached through the project and 54 of them were able to attend at least some of the activities with the Seniors. More than 120 Seniors were reached could have a major role in the social change process. Two policy papers present the results of the project and recommendations for the policy makers.Various european projects were born from NEET U : a project initiated in 2016, another one applied for during the Erasmus + project call in February 2018 in France and a thrid one in preparation for 2019.

"<< Background >>When thinking about future perspectives for the Cultural and Creative Sector (CCS) beyond the COVID-19 crisis, a return to the ‘old normal’ is not considered a viable option. Given the vulnerabilities that characterised the sectors already pre-COVID-19, the crisis has provided a unique momentum to re-think dominant structures and practices and to experiment with possible alternatives, often in intra- and inter-sectoral collaboration. We apply for “Paint the Bit” project mainly because it grasps at an early stage some critical aspects of the arts and culture sector, exacerbated by the global pandemic. According to the Research of CULT Committee (2021), the main consequences that the COVID-19 containment measures have generated for the CCS can be clustered under two main groups: • direct economic effects on the CCS, including negative trends in income, revenues, employment, business opportunities and business models in the sector;• wider social effects and changes in consumer behaviour impacting the CCS, related to socio-cultural indicators, such as changes in cultural demand and consumption, skills, cooperation, well-being, diversity and professional status of cultural and creative workers.Linked to these two topics, two other macro considerations can be developed.For many CCS workers, such as artists and freelancers, the cultivation of their professional networks during events, fairs and festivals is crucial to attract new work and to secure future income. Since most of these events were cancelled or postponed, the number of physical opportunities to network and start new professional relationships drastically decreased, with important negative effects on future income. The new social distancing measures resulted in the shrinking of physical consumption of culture and thus limited demand for this kind of products and services, marking instead a growing consumption of culture through digital media.The market potential of many digital opportunities born in COVID-19 times would also raise the question of the shift towards commercially driven economic models that, before COVID-19, heavily relied on public funding.The increased use of digital tools raised other concerns as well about the degree of digital skills of artists and CCS professionals and their readiness to digitise. While some digital formats and solutions were easy due to the availability of basic expertise, the uptake of digital solutions for competitive e-creation and e-distribution has not been an easy pathway to follow.In this framework, the future crisis resistance of the art, media and creative professionals strongly depends on their way of doing business, the degree of digital innovation, the set-up of new collaborations, the re-thinking of relationships with audiences and customers for the development of new revenue models.<< Objectives >>""Paint the Bit"" project aims to strengthen and contaminate Cultural and Creative sector professionals' skills for a digital, innovative and inclusive production and distribution in a renewed labour opportunities. New job profiles will be identified and a VET curricula will be defined to better responding to the current market framework of artistic and creative production and fruition in the era of digital transition. A blended training and capacity building path for CCS professionals aims to reinforce their digital and transferrable competences so that they can increase their efficiency and acquire career adaptive competences. It will enable them to become more resilient and competitive in their professional offerings, strengthen networking capacities and cross-sectoral collaborative approaches, as necessary skills to provide cultural and creative services more responsive to renewed market needs and social trends.<< Implementation >>“Paint the Bit” project foresees 5 main activities packages.The first work package (WP1) intends to frame the renewed social and market context linked to CCS sector, maps the training needs and offers for CCS professionals at national and European levels, and describes emerging job role profiles for CCS professionals. It will include the following tasks:T1.1 Specify renewed job role framework T1.2 Mapping professional needs T1.3 Synthesis of emerging job roles This WP will lead to the delivery of the Project Result 1 – Identification of emerging roles for Cultural and Creative Sector professionals. WP2 aims to design and develop VET curricula that can be used to train according to the job role profiles specified in WP1 and their “ingredients”, namely the methodology, the training modules and the handbooks. It will include the following tasks:T2.1 Design of the learning outcomes T2.2 Design of VET methodology T2.3 Validation and standardization T2.4 Development of training modules for transferrable competences T2.5 Development of training modules for digital competences T2.6 Development of training handbooks T2.7 Curriculum upgrade after the pilot This WP will lead to the delivery of the Project Result 2 – Modular VET curriculaWP3 foresees the design and development of a collaborative E-learning platform. This platform will reflect the methodologies and tools identified to pursue the learning outcomes and curriculum requirements. For this reason, it will be structured as an operational tool for all training and capacity building phases, containing all OERs and training materials developed by the project. It will include the following tasks:T3.1 Design of the E-learning Platform.T3.2 Development of E-learning materialsT3.3 Development of the E-Learning PlatformT3.4 Improvement of the Platform after the piloting phaseThis work package will lead to the delivery of the Project Result 3 –E-learning platformWP4 refers to the Piloting of the overall capacity building path including MOOC, Specialised Course and Peer Learning, to ensure that the modularized curriculum is fit-for-purpose, relevant to the identified professional needs and highly consistent with EQF-ECVET. The learning-outcomes approach will be applied to the creation of job profiles and the design of training modules taking into account the ECVET principles. Planned activities within each training phases will foster, in a progressive way, the acquisition of the competences and further application to specific situations. It will include the following tasks:T4.1 MOOC T4.2 Selection, targeting and matching of participants for specialised capacity buildingT4.3 Specialised Digital/Virtual Courses T4.4 Peer-to-peer learningT4.5 Assessment and validation This work package will lead to the delivery of the Project Result 4 – Pilot test.The last WP5 is transversal to the all project activities foreseen and directly contribute to the creation of a transnational Community of practice involving VET organisations, CCS freelancers and professionals, stakeholders and private actors to promote a cross-sectorial collaborative model that can meet the current challenges of the arts and creative sector.WP5 will place as overall support of the project a sound dissemination and exploitation plan, with tailored activities addressed to target groups and stakeholders. It includes the creation of the project web site; the production of dissemination material and dissemination of project outcomes by providing versions adapted to national contexts.<< Results >>The project will expect to achieve these main outcomes:•Development of a VET curriculum and methodology linked to the emerging job profiles in the current societal and economic context;•Reinforcement of digital and transferable competences (including entrepreneurial, managerial and collaborative skills) of CCS freelancers and professionals;•Creation of a transnational Community of practice involving VET organisations, CCS freelancers and professionals, stakeholders and private actors to promote a cross-sectorial collaborative model that can meet the current challenges of the arts and creative sector.To reach these results, “Paint the Bit” will produce a range of fruitful and innovative outputs:- Report on needs and training offer - Job role profiles, freely available via the platform - VET curricula, including adapted version to five national contexts (France, Cyprus, Italy, Austria and Spain) - Learning methodology and handbooks - Online platform to support all blended learning phase as well as discussions, exchange and knowledge sharing- OERs, translated and adapted to national contexts- Web site and social software - Standards on learning outcomes and eCF, ECVET and EQAVET standards"

The project was developed and submitted to provide a platform to encourage social inclusion. Being employed is not only a source of income but also an important tool to be part of the community for any group. This is clearer in groups at risk of 'dropping out' such as disabled individuals. Traditionally, these groups have had on-going equality problems in integrating into working life. Moreover, managers and workers have admitted that generally they do not know how to act/what procedure to follow with employees/colleagues with disabilities. For this reason, people with disabilities, sometimes lose out on job opportunities.At least 16% of the EU27 working age population has a disability, many with the ability and the desire to work. In the light of the current EU demographic situation, the occurrence of disability is expected to increase, especially as some disabilities degenerate with age. It is therefore crucial to address the needs of people with disabilities in order to facilitate a better integration into the labour market and into society itself. One of the disabled collectives which has more trouble than many in securing employment are people with Down Syndrome (trisomy 21) and this is the single most common cause of a learning disability. Consequently, the main focus of output one and the pilot test of this project was based on this collective and for that the project was entitled “Working Tri21”. The ultimate objective was to promote, with training, the equality and the inclusion of collectives with some disability (especially trisomy 21), to prevent those groups from 'dropping out' of working life; social inclusion through job inclusion.As a result of preparation, research and implementation, Working Tri21 has developed bespoke training courses designed specifically for acquiring skills, knowledge and competences by different collectives with some disability, to increase the possibility of them being recruited into the furniture industry and become active members of the workforce. In order to achieve this overall outcome, Working Tri21 analysed the skills, capacity and knowledge needs in each identified job position in the furniture field. In addition the project analysed twenty different collectives with some disability in regard to skills, the competences and potential skill mismatches. The huge research effort on matching skills and job positions was crucial to the success of the project, as was the partnership developed between the furniture sector and the disability associations, particularly in Spain.The additional disabilities targeted, were for example deafness, blindness, ataxia and diabetes (Ref: Pages 27/28 of the Application Form). The information gleaned from the research (IO’s 1, 2 and 3) informed both the development of the courses and also the two pilot training courses which were done to check the methodology. The impact on the ten trainees has been hugely positive and it is hoped two of the trainees at least, will secure on-going employmentTo deliver the outcomes summarised above, Working Tri21 brought together a strong multi-disciplinary and transnational partnership formed by four entities (Ref: Pages 3 to 16 of the Application Form):•Associazione Italiana Persone Down onlus (AIPD): an association supporting people with Down Syndrome disabilities from Italy. •BFM Ltd (British Furniture Manufacturers Limited): a trade association from the UK representing the furniture industry to give advice on integration into factories.•Asociacion empresarial de investigacion centro tecnologico del mueble y la madera de la region de Murcia (CETEM): a Technical and Training Centre specialising in the Furniture and Woodworking sector in Spain•Centro Studi Città di Foligno (CSF): a VET Centre for the development of courses from Italy.The target groups that will benefit from the project are:•People with some disability trying to obtain or maintain contact with the labour market.•Service providers for disabled people and vocational education and training (VET) institutions working with this target groups e.g. therapists, social workers, teachers, trainers and related institutions and organisations.•Professionals from the furniture and woodworking sector e.g. employers, employees, entrepreneurs, VET trainers, human resource staff etc. who are interested in the inclusion of disabled workers in traditional industrial sectors.•Policy makers in the field of vocational education and training, work and social inclusion at regional, national and EU level.•Volunteers and related institutions providing services to people with some disability.Through on-going dissemination, use of the website (workingtri21.eu/) and follow up activities the intention is for the outcomes (available in three languages) to be used by the consortium members and/or other associated organisations for implementation post project, in the three countries represented and other EU countries.