All Inclusive - Ldv Partnership

 

ALLINCLUSIVE – LdV Patnership Program

PRESENTATION OF PARTNERS

Örökmozgó Közhasznú Egyesület
A key objective of the association is to enhance the social inclusion of disabled youth. In order to achieve this objective, the association organizes international projects of inclusion, they provide case management, professional advising and guidance, mentoring and personal support, job matching and post employment support for disabled youth in the period when they leave the formal education.

The members of the association are conductors, physical educators, pedagogues, project managers, etc. They are especially experienced in organising and creating non-formal and informal learning situations enhancing the activity of the young participants and thus increasing their potentials on the employment market.

The association has realised several international youth exchange programs with the joint participation of disabled and „healthy” youth. On the basis of these programs’ experiences a study has been made that also proved the positive results of the integrated approach based on inclusion. The association considers very important to include this attitude and practice into vocational training as well.

At the moment the association works on launching a pilot project – an integrated nursery, where the staff, especially the nursers will be trained to deal with motor disabled children to make them fully integrated members of the group.

The Örökmozgó Association has widespread international relations and is member of several international organisations of similar profile.
Within the partnership established in the framework of this program the association would like to share its integrated approach to tackling segregation via vocational training, advice and guidance for those who work with children and young people living with disabilities. On the long term their goal is to develop a complementary training module on inclusion technics for them.

Cooperativa Sociale ARCA

Cooperativa Arca was set up in 1983 and has always been involved in the management of social, health and educational services.
The society, based in Florence, is the second largest cooperativa of Tuscany and operates almost in all the towns of the Province. Nowadays ARCA has more than one hundred educators and social assistants whoes work with disabled people of various age group.
It is represented in nearly all social service areas:
- child care nursery management
- social and recreational centers for disabled people
- home care service for elderly people
- educational assistance for disabled at schools and home
- family houses/day cares for children, disabled, and psychiatric patients
- RSA for frail elderly.
The organisation considers particularly important lifelong training of its operators, hence they are particularly interested in learning best practices for strengthening of the professional skills of the operators and enrichment of their professional knowledge in an international context, as well as sharing the Italian experience, where the integration of disabled people starts from early childhood.
In the project they propose guided visits for the coordinators of the nurseries with disabled children and for some coordinators of the centers for disabled people.

FORTSCHRITT Konduktives Förderzentrum gemeinnützige gGmbH

The Fortschritt GmbH's activity focuses primarly on the education of infants, children and young adults with special needs. They also put an emphasis on their integrated education in order to educate future members of society who are active and tolerant towards people living with disabilities. In order to achieve this goal they consider vital both to create non formal learning environments for children and young adults, and to organise special trainings for the staff working with disabled persons. The organisation has wide international network and has participated in several international inclusion mobilitiy projects. Within the project they intend to share their practice-oriented experiences and to get acquainted with best practices of other organisations with the same profile. The GmbH operates integrated nurseries, kindergartens, day care centers for school children and are closely cooperating with professional organisations. They are affiliated to vocational training institutes and provide practical work experience and on site practical training for their students as well as for voluntaries. Their pedagogical concept is based on conductive education, and thus they were the first organisation in Germany to let this Hungarian method known among professionals. They are particulary interested in to learn and to share new practices and to develop their pedagogical repertoar and to enrich their professional knowledge in an international context.

Asociatia "Credem ca sunt importanti" (RDA)

Cseresznyes Emilia is the founder and president of the "We believe that they are important" association, founded in 2003 in order to provide daily activities to young adults with multiple disabilities leaving formal education at Baraolt.
One of the aims of the association is to emphasize the competencies of these young people and thus to develop their abilities. It is the only institution in the region which offers daily care with short programs, with qualified professionals who provide appropriate development for those with moderate or multiple disabilities.
They consider it important to achieve integration on a group level, to open ways towards acceptance. The permanent staff of the association is completed by volunteers.
The association has already participated in a European mobility project, Youth in Action, in October, 2009. However, the association does not have extended international training experience, therefore they intend to build the experiences gained through this partnership directly into their daily activities.

NBDN National Business Development Network

The National Business Development Network (NBDN) is an association of 42 business centres and business incubators established under the JOBS project, with the support of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the local municipalities. Our mission is to create new entrepreneurial culture, to improve the standard of living through various forms of support for the development of smalls and medium businesses and insuring greater employment opportunities. NBDN supports its members in the design and management of international projects in the areas of employment encouragement, increasing of the competitiveness of the Small and Medium Enterprises, professional training and re-qualification, tourism, handicrafts, etc.
The NBDN network comprises 42 business centres which are in service to the business by providing, among other things, professional training for qualification and re-qualification aiming to increase or to keep the level the employment in the regions.
Vocational Training Centre
The NBDN Vocational Training Centre (VTC) is certified vocational training center from the National Agency for Vocational Education and Training since 2003 with license № 200312111.
The NBDN Vocational Training Centre has 90 certified professions with 157, which provide training in the 25 sectors. Business centers, members of the association are successfully partners on VTC to NBDN of conducting training sessions across the country. For the period 2004 - 2010, together with business centers have trained a total of 20 000 persons. Since October 2007 to VTC NBDN is certified by international standard EN ISO 9001:2008. The purpose of the system for quality management is to standardize and improve the quality of the CVT to NBDN and business centers in the country training services.
As one of the most important national organisations providing professional qualification, the association is highly interested in the constant updating of their pedagogical policy and in the widening of their target groups with people with disabilities.

Pegaso Network della Cooperazione Sociale Toscana

Pegaso was founded in 1998 as a consortium of social enterprises and its aim is to answer to the training needs of the corporate clients. Pegaso is a training agency accredited by Tuscan Region, to provide training programmes both for workers and for unemployed people. Pegaso works above all with European Social Fund, but also provides private, not funded courses. Pegaso's activities range from training needs analysis, to designing and organizing training programmes, to the financial reporting, as in case of funded activities. As a consortium, they have about twenty associated enterprises all over Tuscany, some of them are small, some are larger (over 500 workers). Pegaso employs 7 people, 5 women and 2 men, 4 are part time and 3 full time. Pegaso is specialised in providing training programmes for social workers and is aware of all issues related to social inclusion and integration, and many of its activities are dedicated especially for disadvantaged people.
Pegaso is strongly interested in this "Partnership for strengthening social inclusion" because one of their objectives, established in the statute itself of the Consortium, is to facilitate the inclusion of disadvantaged people, and to achieve this objective, Pegaso organises several training programmes dedicated to them and also to the social workers working with them. Therefore they are interested in all the issues concerning working with disadvantaged, and particularly in improving the skills and competencies of professionals working in different ways for the social inclusion of these people.
Within the partnership they intend to share and learn best practices that will, on the long term, hopefully develop into a project aiming to outline the necessary skills and competencies of workers in order to achieve the social inclusion.
No previous experience of participation in the Partnerships action under the current Lifelong Learning Programme.

Progetti Olasz-Magyar Nonprofit Kft

Progetti Nonprofit Kft. of Budapest, consisting of Italian and Hungarian owners with a marked sense of social responsibility, aims to develop international cooperation, mobility, and good practice changes between Italy and Hungary and other European countries in the social sector and education in general, in the design and management services to individuals in planning and managing European projects.
Its composition and its subsequent trans-national knowledge of the Italian and Hungarian allow it to act as a stimulus for international collaboration and a facilitator of relationships and partnership.
The experiences of members include training and professional experience in Youth Policy, job placement activities, social work with disadvantaged target, coordination of complex local, national and European, in the management of networks, building and managing partnerships, social planning.
Claudia Piovano has worked for over 15 years as a tutor (operator of the job placement), with different target disadvantaged people: physically and mentally disabled youth, early school leavers, +50, people with drug addiction and alcohol problems, socially excluded, immigrants. Progetti is a partner in a transfer of innovation project working together with ARCA (IT), NBDN (BG) to adopt the italian case manager education, that is based on the existing youth educator (ifjúságsegítő) education. Progetti and "Kaposvári Iskola " are working together in a mobility project, in wich they ellaborated the Knowledge-Skills-Competence description for the placement of pupils. The results of this co-opeartion will assisst the ellaboration of the future ECVET DOI project. Both introduced projects were initiated by Progetti, who involved its international relations into it.
Progetti is undertaking work placement projects in Hungary, in collaboration with Hungarian associations, particularly for people with disabilities and for young people with low educational. Some representatives from these associations will participate at and benefit from the project.
Progetti collaborated on the establishment of the partnership and its management. Will participate in all meetings and will collaborate with the coordinator to organize one meeting in Budapest. Progetti is responsible for the monitoring and evaluation tasks.