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“One in six people in the European Union (EU) has a disability that ranges from mild to severe making around 80 million who are often prevented from taking part fully in society & the economy because of environmental and attitudinal barriers. For people with disabilities the rate of poverty is 70% higher than the average partly due to limited access to employment.”
(COM(2010) 636 final - European Disability Strategy (EDS) 2010-2020. DESIGN project stands for finding the most suitable person for a job, for breaking discrimination cycles and society prejudice barriers that people with disability are facing. Our aim is to deliver high job placement counselling services, to disable people and to employers that have suitable job places. The project is focused to create a learning network platform to support Social Services providers, specialised in disabled persons job placement and to increase the job profiling of disabled persons. It is expected a better management of job placement services, stronger networking and effectiveness in employers engagement and most of all, higher rate of disabled persons employability. To accomplish this goal, DESIGN will develop the right set of training courses to empower the services dealing with disabled person's employability. Therefore, we have to train those people with responsibilities to engage with employers, but also to fine-tune the evaluation, counselling and guidance provided to the disabled person who want to apply to a job. |
