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The DESIGN project aimed to find the most appropriate person for a job, to break the cycles of discrimination and prejudice in society that hinder the professional integration of people with disabilities into the mainstream. For people with disabilities, the poverty rate is 70% higher than the average, partly because of limited access to employment. COM(2010) 636 final - European Disability Strategy (EDS) 2010-2020. Several million citizens of the European Union (EU) have a disability. They are one of the largest groups of disadvantaged citizens in the EU. They have traditionally experienced institutional segregation, or have been totally deprived of educational and employment opportunities. DESIGN has made it possible to create a quality inclusive employment methodology based on tools to support social service providers specialising in the professional integration of people with disabilities. These tools have been developed taking into account the Education and Training 2020 Strategic Framework, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Commission's Strategy 2010-2020 on Disability. The project partnership brought together seven organizations from four countries: - France: Afeji (Project Coordinator), a charitable association with a social vocation and Andicat, the National Association of Directors and Executives of Establishments and Services of Assistance through Work (ESAT).- Portugal: Aproximar, social solidarity cooperative and the AFID Diferença foundation.- Romania: ASSOC, association for the social and solidarity economy and EaSI, the European association for social innovation.- Hungary: the Hand in Hand Foundation.The objectives of the project were: -Identify the appropriate assessment of the disabled person on employability issues in order to support a more effective employment integration service in terms of labour market integration.-Develop a learning programme focused on improving the key transversal and professional skills of 96 professionals (24 per country) and select 32 (8 per country) to participate in transnational activities. -To create a communication tool to help integration services in their relations with employers. -Create a model of professional integration service for people with disabilities that is accessible and transferable to any organizationTo achieve these objectives, the partners have developed several intellectual productions: - O1-Evidence review on disabled persons job placement services; a review of evidence on good practices in services for the professional integration of people with disabilities;- O2-Job Profile Assessment Tool and platform; which consists of a new assessment tool and an online platform to match profiles of people with disabilities with job offers published by companies;- O3-Job Placement Service Learning Programme Manual; b-learning training programme tested in 4 countries with a total of 96 participants;- O4 - Communication Toolkit; communication tool to help the relationship between employment services, people with disabilities and employers; - O5 - Job Placement Service Model; guide presenting the DESIGN model for setting up or reorganising a service specialised in the professional integration of people with disabilities. This guide is accessible and transferable to any organization.The project also gave rise to other activities such as: - The realization of 3 learning activities of 5 five days each in France, Hungary and Portugal.- The organization of 7 dissemination events in France, Hungary, Portugal and Romania to disseminate the results of the project.Thus, DESIGN has made it possible to chart a course to better prepare professionals for the integration of people with disabilities and employers into the open labour market, while at the same time raising their awareness of inclusion. All project results are available on the project website: https://www.design-disability.org/
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