Services for people with disabilities have traditionally been provided in segregated institutions. They are moving from institutional care to community living requires community based services to Supports Model for people with disabilities, offering people with disabilities choice over where and with whom they live and providing the necessary supports for community participation and independently living in the community.This reorientation changes the roles of service users and providers. Rather than being service ‘recipients’, people become active participants in planning and obtaining the supports they feel will best meet their needs and goals.These approaches become in the Empowerment of disabled persons, which is the process of enabling people to increase control over their lives, to gain control over the factors and decisions that shape their lives, to increase their resources and qualities and to build capacities to gain access, partners, networks, a voice, in order to gain control.for proper implementation of the Support Model it is needed to:• Increase awareness about the usefulness and potential of its exploitation• Increase cooperation among every stakeholder involved in the Support Network, improving the effectiveness of the actions carried by professionals and families.• To give harmonized methodologies and tools, based on successful best practices • To develop practical cases, which enforce the credibility of the Support Model, the skills of professionals an families and Self-esteem of persons with disabilities.IDIPOWER project proposes the development of an INNOVATIVE collaborative and participatory methodology focused in overcoming the previously mentioned competence limiting factors through the next main bases;• Learning and joint training of families, professionals and people with disabilities.• Consideration of the person as the focus of the intervention, and who defines its interests, accompanied by the professionals who design the itinerary of services.• As a result of the implementation of the methodology, Personal Projects will be developed: based on the interests, needs, abilities and environment of the individual, in order to facilitate their personal promotion and community participation.The consortium includes:6 entities working in the field of Support Models for disabled persons, including a big collective of professionals working with disabled persons, persons with disabilities and their families and used to manage awareness and training addressed to professionals, persons with disabilities and their families.1 Technological Centre specialized in Collaborative Learning methodologies and in the development and application of ICT technologies to facilitate its implementation. This Technological Centre is also used to work with disabled persons according to Quality of Life Criteria. Through the execution of this Project the next results will be obtained;• Determination of key success factors and best practices for the implementation of Support Model for disabled persons including the promotion of their autonomy and the collaboration of the whole support community around them, especially families and professionals of disability.• Development of 1 Collaborative Training Methodology and 1 Set of Tools addressed to disabled persons, familiars and professionals for facilitating the implementation of the Support Model, based on the empowerment of disabled persons and the participation and collaboration of all the support stakeholders.• Development of 1 e-Collaborative Platform, including awareness and training contents, tools and social applications for boosting the implementation of the collaborative methodology• Implantation of the Collaborative Training Methodology through direct training actions divided into Workshops addressed to 400 disabled persons, familiars and professionals.• Creation of 6 Support Units in the participant entities related to disability devoted to the application of the Training Methodology after the completion of the project, with the objective of training about 1.600 disabled persons, familiars and professionals in the period 2017-2020• Awareness activities at regional and European level addressed to the global stakeholders related to the disability in order to create a multiplier effect

"15 million EU citizens have an intellectual disability (POMONA II, 2008). It means a reduction of the ability to understand new or complex information and learn and apply new skills (World Health Organization). In Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (PwID) the following cognitive functions may be impaired, hindering proper knowledge acquisition and competence development: Attention, Memory, Reasoning, Language, Perception, Problem-Solving, Conceptualizing, Self-Regulation, Social development. Since people with cognitive deficits (i.e. neurodevelopmental or intellectual disabilities) have limitations in adaptive behavior they represent an important target of interventions specifically aimed at improving overall function independence and Quality of Life (QoL). Therefore, PwID must be trained for improving impaired cognitive functions in order to increase their ability to understand new or complex information, learn and apply new skills, improve their adaptive behavior and, accordingly, their QoL.Traditional training methodologies often do not apply to PwID, or are insufficient. The use of ICT Serious Games (ICT-SG) or ""training games"" is fairly accepted by PwID because they are more motivated, don´t feel the pressure of real world, feeling comfortable to explore virtual world, being able to keep attention on tasks, and can develop motor coordination and spatial orientation. Therefore, ICT-SG constitute an alternative or complement to current training methods for PwID.The main objective ID-GAMING is to increase the competences of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and related Professionals and Relatives in the implementation of ICT Serious Games for improving cognitive functions, and therefore, their QoL. Specific objectives of ID GAMING are: •To increase the awareness of this target group regarding the relevance of ICT-SG•To select and collect proper ICT-SG for better training the cognitive functions of PwID according to the specific needs and capacities.•To transfer knowledge, guidelines and procedures on how to use ICT-SG to produce specific aimed outcomes in terms of cognitive functions and Quality of Life•To develop and improve Digital Skills of PwID•To increase the socialization of PwID through the collaborative gaming and involvement of the Relatives in the use of ICT Serious Games out of the care centers.Through the execution of this Project the next main results will be obtained:Quality of Life Training Game (Intellectual Output 1). A Serious Game called Quality of Life Training Game (QoLTG) will be designed. The main purpose of this Collaborative Serious Game is to facilitate PwID the improvement of their cognitive functions and quality of life while playing this game. PwID and Supports will participate in the design of this output.Training Toolkit (Intellectual Output 2)A Training Toolkit will be developed including: - Methodological Guidelines for playing Quality of Life Game (I.O.1) with training purposes; - Training Materials, developed specifically to create awareness and increase knowledge about the potential of ICT-Serious Games for training cognitive functions and increasing Quality of Life; - ICT Serious Games Catalogue, organized per Cognitive Functions including 3 to 5 selected existing ICT Serious Games per cognitive function. They will be adapted to the specific needs, capacities and learning difficulties of the different collectives involved in the Target Group (PwID and Supports). ID-GAMING e-Training Tool (Intellectual Output 3)The ID-GAMING e-Training Tool will be developed including a Web Based Game for playing the Quality of Life Training Game developed in I.O.1, with the supervision of trainers and supports or by themselves. In addition, ID-GAMING e-Training Tool will allow access to the Training Toolkit for those persons that are not directly playing QoLTG but are interested in playing ICT-SG with learning purposes. This access will be done through a search engine that will allow access to Training Toolkit’s Materials through key questions.4 Multiplier Events (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece) will be implemented on the application of ICT Serious Games to PwID for improving cognitive functions, and therefore, their Quality of Life involving stakeholders who will multiply the impact of the projectDissemination Actions will be implemented targeting the sector of Intellectual Disability at national and European level as well as experts in the field of Serious Games.During the project, the estimated impact will be- 100 persons, including PwID and Supports, will directly improve their cognitive functions, and accordingly their Quality of Life in the Validation Pilot Actions.- 120 stakeholders will participate in the Multiplier Events- 2.000 persons, including PwID and Supports, and other Stakeholders will increase their awareness and knowledge about the relevance of CT-Serious Games for improve the cognitive functions, and QoL"

When we talk about People with Intellectual Disabilities, community’s still tend to have a more traditionalist and protective approach, but new Models, including Quality of Life, start the discussion in how we must direct to the abilities and full potential of the IDP’s and not to focus on their disabilities. With this in mind, the IDPLiving project has is background on the embodiment of The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that states they have the right to Living independently and being included in the community; with equal choices and opportunities to participate in their community. The OBJECTIVES of the IDPLiving are: -To raise awareness and motivate the whole collective about the abilities of IDP’s; -Boost the evolution of IDP’s to Accommodation/Supporting housing and Full Independence,enhancing their quality of life; -Transfer guidelines about how to develop basic daily routines in the main contexts of life; -Transfer guidelines about how to exploit ICT tools that can be used as assistive technology; -Provide the trainees with real life experiences to apply the trained competences during and after the training course. One of the main APPROACHES that was innovative and that made a big impact on the whole project was the process of co-creation and co-production, involving actively IDP's and responding to the main objective of the self-advocate movement “nothing for us, without us” and this meant actively to listen and ask the contributions of IDP's, to build a training program, that is driven by their priorities and needs.The PROFILE OF THE DIRECT PARTICIPANTS in the development of the project where: - People with Intellectual Disabilities (a total of 58); - Families of IDP's (a total of 31 relatives)- Professionals (a total of 48).The project achieve all the RESULTS establish, as follows:METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE (IO1) was developed, with the direct participation of IDP's, families and professionals, through the realization of 2 Co-Created Sessions, with the main objective of determining the key contents of the training program, methodologies and ICT Tools needed for improving the competences of IDP's and their supports for increasing their Independent Living in the Community. They identified and choose the following modules to be developed in the Training Materials: Quality of Life; Shared Living; House Management; Going Out; Healthy Lifestyle; Safe and Healthy sexuality. TRAINING MATERIALS (IO2) where created to improve the critical competences of IDP's, relatives and professionals for facilitating the improvement of IDP's competences to deal and face daily life activities and therefore to enhance their Independent Living opportunities.The materials are diverse and can be face to face sessions, online sessions, and outdoor activities, with the resource of templates, games, APPS, videos and others. DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING ACTIVITIES (IO3), in a form of a Manual for Trainers for enhancing the practical and experiential training of IDP's, relatives and professionals, using the training materials within real environments.E-TRAINING PLATFORM (IO4) was created, that allows free access of the training materials and a field to create courses, with the different modules developed and that can be adapted to the different profiles of IDP's. This is an interactive space and tool to the participants and trainers and also can be a forum to share experiences between the different participants.The partners also assume the Creation of 5 IDPLIVING UNITS in order to ensure the sustainable exploitation of the project after the project lifetime. The partners assume this responsibility in the activities plan of organizations for 2020, to assure continuity of the project and to promote continuous innovation thought the implementation of new ideas for training materials and training experiences, keeping the E-Platform updated.The consortium developed a high range of DISSEMINATION ACTIONS addressed to the European collective related to IDP's and directly reach more than 5000 persons trough National and European events, Multiplier Events and then indirectly reach much more trough publications and social networks, because a flyer was created, as well a Facebook and you tube channel for the project, along a website.The RESULTS from TRAINING PROGRAM, confirmed that the quality indicators of the project where reach. Evaluation of global satisfaction was of 95% and Evaluation of acquisition of competences achieve a global value of 91%. The participants validate the real impact that the methodology developed of co-creation and co-production, through the DETAS and training materials, are very good tools to enhance and promote the participation of IDP's and highly promote their independent living in their contexts of life in their communities. Also we became aware that other targets in disability field are very interested in accessing the training program developed.

<< Objectives >>ALL SUSTAINABLE is launched with the AIM of empowering PID to be sustainable citizens and contribute as active agents to sustainable development.ALL SUSTAINABLE will develop a Serious Game-Based Training Methodology for increasing the awareness and competences of PID about sustainability and further transference to independent living projects based in an action-oriented learning approach, where they will be involved by playing an innovative Digital Serious Game<< Implementation >>The Implementation of the ALL-SUSTAINABLE project activities will be structured through the following Working PackagesWP1. Project ManagementWP2. Development of a Serious Game-Based Training MethodologyWP3. Production of a Digital Serious GameWP4. Development of a Training Package with Resources for Trainers and Training Material for Persons with Intellectual DisabilitiesWP5. Sharing, promotion and sustainability activities<< Results >>Main tangible results will be:Experiential Training Methodology for PID’s acquisition of sustainable competences and further transference to their independent living projectsA Digital Serious GameA Training Package for Trainers and PID (trainees)Impact;75 PID and 25 Trainers will participate in the Validation Pilot Actions150 Stakeholders will be involved in the National Multiplier Events3.000 PID, Trainers, Supports and Stakeholders will be targeted by the dissemination actions

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) (UNCRPD, 2006) promotes full and effective participation and inclusion in society (Art.19) recognizing the right of PwD to live in the community, with choices equal to others, and to full enjoy their full inclusion and participation in the community. It also promotes awareness of the capabilities and contributions of PwD (Art. 8).NOT-FOR-PROFIT SHARING ECONOMY (NFPSE), also known as “real or pure” SHARING ECONOMY, is based in reciprocal exchange systems with no monetary exchange involved (via time credits, community currency, shared services, etc…). One of the most established form of NFPSE is TIME BANKS (TB). Give one hour of service to another, and receive one time credit, when a network of members agrees in receiving credits for services that other members provide (www.timebanks.org/what-is-timebanking). TBs are relevant to policy-making in the area of PwD (Potential of TBs to support social inclusion. EU Comission): •Focusing in the capacities rather than disabilities of PwD, so, promoting the awareness of its capabilities and contributions •Increasing inclusion and participation in the community of PwD, through providing them with new social networks or improving the existing ones and encouraging them to understand the important roles they can play in those networks•Providing volunteer support CAPABILITY-TBis launched with the main objective of increasing the competences (attitudes, knowledge, skills) of PwD and their Supportsfor improving their Inclusion and Participation through Timebanking. Specific objectives:•Aware/motivate this collective on the use of TB•Promote the self-knowledge and discovery of capacities of PwD and its deployment•Increase participation of PwD in social networks structured around the TBs•Promote mutual support by promoting the exchange between people with different capacities•Promote the easy and cost-effective access of PwD to goods and services •Involving Supports in effective cooperation with PwD and even participating in TB•Develop general and specific digital skills related to TB Online PlatformsThrough the execution of this Project the next results will be obtained;•A “Co-Created MethodologicalGuide” (I.O.1) will be developed with the direct participation of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and other End Users, with the main objective of discussing and agreeing with them on the definitive contents, approach of training methodologies and tools to be integrated in the Training Program.•A set of “Timebanking Training Activities” (I.O.2) will be designed, including Face-to-Face and Online Training Activities, for enhancing the experiential training of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and their Supports (professionals, relatives, community members, etc…), in a way that the trainees will developed the targeted competences through the creation of a real Timebank and/or participation in other existing Timebanks. A Guidelines will be developed for supporting Trainers in the implementation of the “Timebanking Training Activities” as part of this output•A set of “Training Materials” (I.O.3) adapted to Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and their Supports onhow to increase inclusion and participation through Timebanking (TB) will be developed to be used along the implementation of the “Timebanking Training Activities” (I.O.2).•A“CAPABILITY-TB e-Training Tool” (I.O.4) will be developed for supporting the implementation of the Timebanking Training Activities” (I.O.2), including the option of creating an online Timebank where trainees will train themselves in the competences needed to participate and enhance their social inclusion•Implementation of 6 Multiplier Eventson how to increase inclusion and participation of PwD through Timebanking (TB) addressed to stakeholders that could multiply the impact of the project•Development of Dissemination Actions addressed to the European collective related to DisabilityVALIDATION PILOT ACTIONS will be implemented involving 100 Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and their Supports for validation of the project results (40 in Spain and 20 in Italy, Portugal and Greece) The Consortium includes 5 entities working in the field of supporting PwD (AMICA, COPAVA, CECD SINTRA, EDRA, CSS FORLI), 1 Research Institute specialized in Sharing Economy, including Timebanking, both in the area of research and application to specific collectives (FORBA) and 1 Non-for-Profit entity specialized in development of e-Training Platforms, ICT Literacyand Social Innovation with specific experience in promoting the use of Timebanks (IED).