3rd DECEMBER International Day of persons with disabilities
“I urge all countries to fully implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, increase accessibility, and dismantle legal, social, economic and other barriers with the active involvement of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations. – António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Union if Equality – Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2020
To achieve further progress in ensuring the full participation of persons with disabilities, the new and strengthened Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 will guide the action of Member States as well as EU institutions, building on the achievements of the previous ten years and offering solutions to the challenges ahead. The […]
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Disability
During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to develop a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose achievement period concluded in 2015. The SDGs are to address all three dimensions of sustainable development (environmental, economic and social) and […]
Multiplier Event – Volla, 14th December 2021
On 14th December 2021 the intellectual outputs of the workABLE project, Handbook, Platform and App, will be presented in Volla (Italy) at the lead partner Villa delle Ginestre. First of all, a presentation of the national context on cognitive disability is planned, followed by a presentation of the workABLE project. Both Platform & App will […]
Platform launch at the Multiplier Events
A round of MEs have been organised in the in our project partner countries (Romania, Slovenia, Cyprus). The realised MEs were aimed at presenting the workABLE Platform and its potentialities. The audience has been very targeted (adult educators’ providers, services providers for PMD, VET providers) and the events had a practical approach: after the presentation […]
What is workABLE?
The right of people with disabilities to be integrated into working life and to be an active part of the production world is stated and regulated by European laws and National legislation. The integration process can be truly respectful of the dignity of the disabled person, only if a full satisfaction of both the worker […]
Second Project Output: Handbook
The Handbook is the result of research and analysis conducted during the project in the field of Job Coaching and Individual Placement Support for PMD and connected topics. This Handbook is intertwined with the other intellectual output and the project outputs in general, and it represents the knowledge base on which many of the training […]
How to access to the Platform
The workABLE Platform provides valuable learning materials and a game-based experience for training Job Coaches who deal with people with mental disabilities. For these reasons, access requires login credentials. Users shall request their personal login details to use the Platform by filling in the Contact Form available at workABLE website https://workableproject.eu/#contact_us, and asking for a […]
First Project Output: The Platform
The workABLE Platform is an open ICT platform designed with the purpose of modelling a learning community for supporting adult educators professional upgrade in the field of supporting the employment of PMD. It will be an educational tool with its training material but also a tool for tutoring and training the learners for training-on-the-job purposes. […]
JULY – workABLE Progress
In order to get as many reviews as possible during the pilot testing phase of workABLE Platform, we’re delivering a user-experience questionnaire to all potential users. This is the link. Please get involved by contacting us at: info@workableproject.eu. A virtual Multiplier Event to launch the workABLE Platform has been organised by Pro ACT […]