Pass It On

Employment is crucial for people's social integration, physical and mental health, well-being and self realization…whatsoever your abilities and disabilities are.

This website hopes to contribute to full employment of people with disabilities and will tackle barriers and gaps, facilitate stakeholder cooperation, develop innovative approaches and support Human Rights based initiatives.

EASPD represents close to 8000 service provider organizations across disability and across Europe. A considerable part of the EASPD membership provides job-related services or employment to people with disabilities. Employment and job opportunities, therefore, are high on the agenda of the service providers in Europe.

From Raising Awareness to Open Labour Market Opportunities for People with Disabilities through Vocational Training and Lifelong Strategies — is a two year project (01.01.2009 - 31.12.2010) funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme of the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission.  It brings together partners from 8 countries, namely Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Malta, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.  The overall aim of the project is to enable people with disabilities to enter into the open labor market by providing them, the professionals who accompany them, the employers and other stakeholders involved in the process, with a learning opportunity based on well tested training materials from three previous projects, 2 Leonardo da Vinci (Conversion and Atlas) and 1 Socrates-Grundtvig (Inclusive Education Model) project focusing on lifelong opportunities and vocational training for Persons with Disabilities and on their integration in mainstream education and inclusive employment.

As mentioned above, the partnership is regrouping partners from 8 countries: 

1. European Association of Service providers for Persons with Disabilities - EASPD (Belgium)  www.easpd.eu

2. Fontys OSO (the Netherlands)  www.fontysoso.nl

3. Lebenshilfe Graz und Umgebung – Voitsberg (Austria)  http://www.lebenshilfe-guv.at

4. Ministry of Education, Employment and the Family (Malta)  http://www.education.gov.mt

5. B. P. T. spol. s r. o. (Czech Republic)  http://www.ibpt.cz

6. Agency Vision (Bulgaria)  http://www.vision-bg.com

7. Hand in Hand Foundation (Hungary)  http://www.kezenfogva.hu

8. Alpha Transilvana (Romania).  http://www.alphatransilvana.ro

Please visit our next pages were you find more information about the training materials, the agenda and hopefully we meet you into our Forum?

Have a look at our Links section, which will give you access the National Portals set up by our partners in Romania, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary and Malta.

In addition, we are glad to bring to your attention a background information paper on Supported Employment, drafted by an expert involved in the project. It is of high interest for any individual or organisation willing to know more about the issue. You can click here to download it.

You're also welcome to download the leaflet Pass It On and newsletters from the dedicated page of the website.

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.