One of the priority areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 aims at raising the employment rate of persons with disabilities working in the open labour market. They represent onesixth of the EUs overall working-age population, but their employment rate is comparatively low.Employment contributes to social inclusion by providing opportunities for social participation. It enhances self esteem and contributes to quality of life. This is particularly true for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who have difficulties in managing non-structured time, and for whose employment represents an important aid for personal satisfaction.Autism covers a wide range of symptoms, skills and levels of disability and is therefore referred to as a disorder. A person can be diagnosed with severe or mild autism, depending on the level of their impairment. One common symptom is the lack of ability to socialize and engage fully in verbal or nonverbal communication. Autistic people often display above-average skills in particular fields like reading, language, music or spatial skills. However, because of the shortcomings they may display in social interaction and other fields they are often considered ‘inadequate’ for regular employment and are therefore reduced to further social exclusion.The project’s outputs and activities have been informed by the overriding objective of developing a more open and inclusive labour market and fostering participation of people affected by ASD through the development of new competences for professionals of the recruiting and employment processes.Main objectives of the project are:- Raise awareness of companies, labour market institutions, employment offices, on the need of adapt recruiting systems to facilitate the professional inclusion of our target group.- Empower employment officers, job counsellors and HR managers to better understand how to improve their governance structures, competences and institutional culture in reference to professional inclusion of people with ASD.- Bridge the gap between the target group and the labour market institutions and subjects, helping them better engage with each other.- Provide a freely accessible, permanent set of resources and tools for the continuous development of employment institutions, companies, HR managers through the development of new competences and skills.The project team will achieve these goals in compliance with the program priorities of social inclusion, increasing learning demand and take-up through effective outreach, guidance and motivation strategies and extending and developing the competences of educators and other personnel who support adult learners.The activities will include: management, coordination and monitoring activities; activities dedicated to the production of the Intellectual Outputs and achieving the set objectives and outcomes and activities for dissemination, exploitation and provision of sustainability.3 Intellectual outputs will be produced along project duration: - IO1 Inclusion Champion Profile;- IO 2 Work-Based learning pathways; - IO 3 Training Courses. The envisaged impact for the first main target group - employment officers, job counsellors and HR managers, is that they will be able to improve the quality and widen the scope of the services they offer and thus improve their skills and raise their awareness.The impact for the second target group - the young adults affected by ASD, will be their better employability.The connection between the two target groups will also be guaranteed by the creation of the European Pool for inclusion - a platform connecting job seekers, companies, career practitioners.To improve the expected results and guarantee a wide dissemination of project results, products, outputs and learning materials will be freely accessible.Additional results will be produced by the project to maximize and foster the impact of the project, like the creation of a network on VET institutions, the implementation of an international forum for exchange of good practices and networking.To foster the participation and therefore the benefits for VET institutions, partners will committ to involve institutions at local and national level in all phases of the project, trough dissemination activities and trough direct involvement.Project management results:- Successful implementation of the project and impact achieved: conditions provided through due professional strategic partnership establishment, careful planning, human and financial resources allocation, Project and Quality Management Plan, etc.Successful project dissemination and solid provision of project sustainability: Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation Plan, Dissemination activities, etc.- European dimension of project outcomes and cooperation between involved organizations.