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All Inclusive - Overcoming Barriers to Participation

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-FI01-KA205-066240
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 136,532 EUR

All Inclusive - Overcoming Barriers to Participation

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All Inclusive – Overcoming Barriers to Participation is an innovative strategic partnership project for youth. It comprises of six partners in three different countries: Finland, Italy and North-Macedonia. The partners all work with mobility projects and/or young people with disabilities and are very keen on developing new methods on how we can enable mobility projects to the who are now excluded.For various reasons young people with disabilities are often excluded from international co-operation, for example, from Erasmus + mobility projets. By disabled in this project we mostly mean people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. This diverse group of people will need special support to be able to attend mobility activities. For some youngsters with disabilities it is not even possible to travel and participate in the above-mentioned experiences, for example, because of multiple and complex disabilities. The organizations taking part in this project feel, that there is a lack of knowledge and know-how about how one should design and execute mobility projects with young people with disabilities.The project will develop two intellectual outputs. The first one is a step-by-step guideline which supports the participation of young people with disabilities to mobility activities and take into consideration the special needs of the target group. These guidelines will include the whole process of a mobility project, from planning to evaluation. The guidelines include methods of empowering young people with disabilities, supporting their communication by using different methods. This will include support needed for them to be able to take part in a mobility project.The second intellectual output is a method on how young people with disabilities who are not able to travel, could still meaningfully take part in a mobility project. There can be different reasons for this, sensory defensiveness can hinder the person’s ability to function in public places, the needed support can be so great, that it is not feasible in a mobility project or challenging behaviour can be so severe that traveling is not possible. From our perspective these challenges do no mean that the person in question could not participate in a meaningful way to a mobility project.Both the method and the guidelines will be produced together with the parter organizations, other stakeholders and the young people themselves. The professionals taking part in this project will mostly be teachers, youth workers and other instructors. The young people are young people with disabilities in different situations. Some of them live in an residential unit, some of them take part in daily activities, some of the live at home or by themselves and some of the go to school.Besides the intellectual outputs the organizations in this project will train youth workers young people to use them. During the project the organizations will also develop a mobility project for young people with disabilities and there will be multiplier events in each of the countries. Our goal in this project is also to raise awareness of the possibilities for disables young people for international co-operation. Yes, there are challenges, but it is not impossible to build a true participatory mobility project for the young people in question. All the organizations in this project see this as an important thing and they have seen, that it doesn’t happen by itself. There are actions needed to make this happen.

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