TITLE: IN-WORK - Inclusive Communities at Work
AGREEMENT NUMBER: 2022-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000087184
FUNDING PROGRAMME: Erasmus Plus - Call 2022 Round 1 KA2 - Cooperation partnerships in higher education
CONSORTIUM: Università di Macerata - UNIMC (IT: coordinator); Universitat Rovira I Virgili - URV - (Spain - partner); Jyvaskylan Ammattikoreka Koulu - JAMK - (Finland- partner); European Universities Continuing Education Network - EUCEN - (Belgium - partner)
RUNTIME: from 01.11.2022 to 31.10.2024
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The project specific objective is to design, develop, pilot and validate a model of intervention to enlarge the universities networks to mainstream a culture of inclusion and support the life design of youths with special needs through work-integrated learning activities.
To do so, the project aims to:
- Exchange data and identify main obstacles or success elements to insertion to work of youths with special needs and identify, if any, place-based characteristics that could hinder of favour the process
- Design process and procedures, pedagogically sound, to increase the openness of the university within the place, and promote an inclusive culture
- Engage stakeholders for joint learning activities, including work-based learning provisions (internship and traineeship)
- Jointly design, develop and implement work-integrated learning programmes inside and outside the university, also through extra-curricular activities
- Train the trainers, therefore provide learning opportunities to professors, supervisors and support staff on approaches and methods for work-integrated learning for inclusion
- Pilot the programmes for at least one semester
- Collect evaluation data, analyse them, revise the programme, identify strengths and weaknesses and reflect on lessons learnt to provide a transferrable model to other higher education institutions.
The focus on work-integrated learning activities, both for higher education students and youths belonging to the reference community, is expected to:
- Increase integration of people with special needs into the community
- Enhance the role of the university as an inclusive organisation working toward inclusive communities
- Support civic engagement of all higher education students and stakeholders
TOTAL BUDGET OF THE PROJECT € 250,000.00
TOTAL EU GRANT € 250.000,00
UNIMC GRANT: € 75.986,00
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: prof.ssa Catia Giaconi
PROJECT WEBSITE: https://www.in-work-project.eu
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