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"The Report on mobility and inclusion of people with disabilities and the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (2010/2272(INI)) declares the inclusion of the 80 million people with disabilities (PwD) in the European Union (constituting 16% of its population) being of utmost importance. Effective social inclusion of PwD offers a unique opportunity for meeting Europe's future workforce needs. According to this Report, special measures should be taken to promote successful integration of disabled people into the labour market, including enabling disabled people and disability-led organisations to be involved at all levels in the development, running and evaluation of education programmes for disabled people; removing the attitudinal, policy and physical barriers; disseminating best practice information to responsible bodies in the field of disability: innovative practices, knowledge and experience gained from the project will be disseminated to the responsible bodies in the field of disability by organizing some briefing meetings in the project participants` communities. The Strategical Partnership ""Integration of People with Disabilities through Learning"" was focused on the active measures of the cooperation between educational centres, NGOs of people with disabilities with the aim of elaborating of tools to provide inclusion of people with disabilities, especially, young people, into educational and labour communities. Thus, the overall objectives of the project were to share expertise and best practices in the area of social and labour inclusion of PwD; to develop a module on disability ethics covering issues related to impairments, access needs and other topics of particular relevance to workers and students with disabilities; to elaborate a programme of the training course aiming to increase employability of young disabled persons; to produce recommendations for NGOs on organizing social awareness campaigns targeted mainstream employment companies and thus promote labour integration of disabled people; to disseminate the project findings to disabled people, their organisations, professionals and government representatives involved in educational and employment initiatives in the project participants’ countries. Each partner contributed to the project its specific competence and experience in different areas related to social and labour inclusion of PwD bringing about the diversity of approaches and experiences. The partnership was made up by three associations - an association of parents of children with disabilities Sillogos Goneon from Greece, a non-profit association of PwD APEIRONS from Latvia, a Federation MestralCocemfe from Spain; three universities - a private university Instituto dei Sordi di Torino specialized in integration of people with hearing impairments from Italy, a high school of health Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu I Nauk o Zdrowiu from Poland, a public Adiyaman University from Turkey; and a social foundation FOPSIM from Malta, which provides a good balance between organizations which have first-hand understanding of the needs of people with disabilities, educational establishments providing training courses for and about people with disabilities, and a social enterprise which has an extensive practical experience related to labour inclusion of PwD.Taking into account that the main aim of the project was social and labour integration of people with disabilities, the impact of the project implementation was as follows: • People with disabilities, particularly young people with disabilities, had an access to a training ""Start Your own Business"" which improved their skills and attitudes, such as self-esteem and leadership qualities which in its turn strengthened their employability. • All the partners organised pilot courses based on the disability etiquette module developed within the project targeted businesses and educational centres so that students and teachers, employers and employees could have better understanding of the needs of people with different types of disabilities and make aware of importance of reasonable adjustments for PwD at places of work and studies. • Partner organisations enriched their knowledges in the topic and acquired tools and methods on how to encourage PwD enter the labour market and, on the other hand, how to adapt the working plans of enterprises to involve employees with disabilities. • Public bodies from partner countries - City Councils of Riga (Latvia) and Reus (Spain), Diputació de Tarragona (Spain), Adiyaman Provincial Government (Turkey), Department of Youth and Social Policies of the Pedmont region (Italy), among others - were directly involved in the project through participation in the project meetings and dissemination conferences. All the project results and materials are published online on www.itlerasmus.eu and in a book issued by the editorial house DetayYayinlari (Turkey) with ISBN 978-605-9189-86-6 in 2016."
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