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Assistant Gardener Curriculum for people with Intellectual Disabilities

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-EL01-KA204-062986
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 243,025 EUR

Assistant Gardener Curriculum for people with Intellectual Disabilities

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GreeNet aims in improving and innovating inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities through fostering specific actions within the framework of Adult Education and Rehabilitation for people with Intellectual disability (PIDs). The state of affairs for people with intellectual disabilities is that their full social inclusion and active citizenship are not yet a reality, but future challenges. The policies to remove physical barriers have not been extended to the overcoming of mental barriers. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the employment and work based training provided to PIDs. Even though in the last few years there has, been a visible shift at the European level towards integrating PIDs into the labour market, still PIDs are often unable to complete adult education programmes, and are restricted to participating in courses, which do not grant the student any official certification of their gained qualification. Furthermore, the majority of programs, designed for PIDs need the constant participation of a guide or trainer, limiting their autonomy, are designed for use in a “protected environment” and mainly focus on maintaining life skills and not bridge the actual skill gap between PIDs and the general population. Even though, the main effort by such programs is guided toward work place “equality” for people with intellectual disabilities and their peers, the perceived need of supervision leads, to segregation. One of the 8 areas of action defined in the “European Disability Strategy 2010–2020” is to “Promote inclusive education and lifelong learning for pupils and students with disabilities”, furthermore, The Council Directive 2000/78/EC (Employment Framework Directive) aims to promote equal opportunities and combat discrimination on several grounds, including disability, in employment, self-employment and occupation (European Commission, 2000), but still the problem persists. GreeNet aims to create a complete training Course for Adult Educations in Horticulture (Assistant Gardener – PID). Special attention will be given to skills transparency through EQF and ECVET system as well as the certification of the course materials and the trainers and future supervisors themselves. GreenNet is also going to promote Work Based Learning (WBL) and co-training and will involve the trainees working in the community. GreeNet will provide the opportunity to PIDs to obtain a certification for the learning units achieved or the entire curriculum. The course will address the latest’s technological advancements in the supported employment (Assistive Technology solution), in order to bridge this lack of skills, to increase autonomy and maximise social impact. An Assistive Technology toolkit will be prepared to control in real time garden conditions to improve services, to reduce time and resources required, and also reduce the possibilities of human error. The toolkit will include a weather station, soil moisture sensors, sunlight exposure, etc).The main Objectives of the project are:To promote inclusive education and lifelong learning for people with intellectual disabilities. To design and develop an Assistant Gardener curriculum for people with intellectual disabilities of EQF levels 1 and 2.To develop an Assistive Technology toolkit to assist in WBL, but also later on when the certified trainees will work in real jobs helping them to retain their skills and increase their autonomy. To offer easy to read training materials specifically designed from the start, to cover the beneficiaries’ vocational needs. To develop a certification system for the assessment of the training content and the trainees. Each training module will consist of learning outcomes that will correspond to training units.To train 2 trainers professionals working with PID in each country (Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Cyprus and Serbia) in the use of sensor technologies in horticulture and guide them or the successful organisation of the training's with main goal to ensure sustainability of the project resultsTo pilot train 10 PIDs as gardener in all partner countries in order to test the effect of the methodology and the tools. To offer the materials for free through an online platform and the corresponding manuals to be used worldwide.Considering the different institutional, academic and even cultural backgrounds, the partner organisations are aware of avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach and based on that conviction, they stress on the need to develop a very concise overview of the proposed solution and best practices. Meeting these differences and dealing with them is not only about demonstrating the competency for transnational cooperation and the organisation's overall capability, but it is also one pathway to achieve the project targets and a solid resource to improve existing efforts.

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