SKILLS+
European Skills Competition for people with (labour) disabilities
Project: Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic partnership – Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices Partnerships
European partners
- Stichting Kenniscentrum Pro Work (The Netherlands) – Lead Organization
- Skills Netherlands (The Netherlands)
- Fundaciòn Siglo 22 (Spain)
- Adam Smith College of Management – National Training Centre (Bulgaria)
- JKVG vzw (Belgium)
- Euroface Consulting s.r.o. (Czech Republic)
- Andragoski zavod Ljudska univerza Velenje (Slovenia)
- New service (Italy)
- IED Institute of Entrepreneurship Developement (Greece)
- Ustanova za obrazovanje odraslih Dante (Croatia)
- Nevsehir Ticaret Ve Sanayi Odasi (Turkey)
Timeline: 36 months form 01/09/2018 a 31/08/2021
Summary of the project
The goal of the project is to share good practice among (new) partners in the establishment of sustainable and mutual beneficial relations between people with a labour disability and small and medium enterprises (SME’s).
The focus is on WORK BASED LEARNING; This includes workplace experience for the participants as for example the training on hard skills like knowledge on the job as well as soft skills like team work, flexibility, stress reliance, creativity etc. This project will increase the experience of people with a labour disability on the labour market demand.
The project will be executed in cooperation with social partners as supplier of the participants and as local stakeholders involved in the project. So, the people with a labour disability will no longer be judged on their disability but on their competences. The main purpose is to increase the employability of this target group by a smoother and more effective move to work transition.
A partnership has already run a successful project in the Erasmus+ called ‘Para-Skills-Competition’ with 6 EU countries in 5 professions (job types: Green Jobs, Hospitality & catering, Electro, ICT and Health & care). They disseminated the results among stakeholders among Europe: http://paraskillsproject.eu/it/
Now these stakeholders are so interested that they want to share the good practice by education among the methodology and executing pilots. This will have a great impact all over Europe.
For more information visit the website http://www.skillsplus.eu/
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