FOIRET-PD GUIDE (ENGLISH)

FOIRET-PD
English Guide

[ 1997-99 HORIZON Project]

FOIRET-PD Focus On Issues Related to Employment
and Training of People with a Disability

The HORIZON transnational project FOIRET-PD involves a group of organisations with a wide diversity of experience who seek to develop and disseminate good-practice guides and related materials in the following four areas:-

Tele-Learning.
New forms of co-operative working including Tele-Working.
Peer-Counselling.
Personal Support as an aid to Independent Living.

The project has ten partners in seven countries; for more information, including photographs and a location map, click on the project name below:

APDU-TREND in Campobasso, Italy
CIDEF in Lisbon, Portugal
Comune di Bologna in Bologna, Italy
FASTT in Hoensbroek, Netherlands [Until 31/12/98]
IES in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
I I L in Stockholm, Sweden
ISL in Berlin, Germany
NewLink in Nottingham, United Kingdom
SIDI in Rome, Italy
ZSL in Mainz, Germany

The Domestic Projects

Associazione dalla Parte degli Ultimi [APDU-TREND]

[APDU] The TREND organisation is delivering the project "The Telework Timebank" for the promoter APDU. The project is designed to:

Train trainers to provide them with the knowledge to support the students, in consideration of their particular situation, using the fittest tools for the management of the classroom;
Deliver training of disabled people at a distance with the aid of telematic support;
Carry out consultation in the context of the problems associated with teleworking for the purpose of establishing a teleworking centre.
Additional information concerning the project may be found by consulting the following links:

Training of trainers
Training of disabled people
Consultation on support systems

APDU-TREND summary page

[TREND]

Centro de Inovação para Deficientes [CIDEF]

CIDEF is working with People with Physical, Visual and Audio Impairment to develop Professional Rehabilitation and Employment Programmes, related to a proper professional rehabilitation policy, that identify processes and methods to facilitate the realisation of their general goals. Its activity is targetted at specific goals such as:

Research and Development of Technical Aids and Materials to facilitate Vocational Training and Professional Integration of Disabled People.
Production of Technical Aids Prototypes to facilitate the Vocational Training and Professional Integration for Disabled People.
Research and Develop new systems, new methodologies and techniques of Vocational Training and Professional Integration for Disabled People.
Develop Individualized and Tailor-made Vocational Training Programmes.
Train its trainees regarding the Integration in the Labour Market or, in agreement with Employment Centres, to help users to create their own jobs.

CIDEF summary page

Comune di Bologna

In their PROMOTEO project, the Comune di Bologna have a specific interest in offering a set of telematic services, designed for people with a disability, that will exploit the potential capabilities of the internet to the full. The internet services will:-

Complete as fully as possible (for the Bologna area) the information related to bodies and people who, in the field of handicap, operate in sectors like employment, education, independent living and rehabilitation;
Help orientation and navigation towards existing sites that are related to handicap;
Provide accessibility and facilitate use by the disabled user;
Encourage transactional services.
The Prometeo web-site is now available for inspection.

Comune di Bologna summary page

Flexible Arbeit en Scholing door Telewerken en Teleleren [FASTT]

FASTT was a partner in this project until the end of 1998. Due to various difficulties, the company withdrew at that time. Information on a company founded by key FASTT staff can be found at the ATRIUM BV website.

FASTT summary page

Iniciativas y Estudios Sociales [IES]

Within the FASI project, the IES association is:

Promoting Employment for disabled people by taking advantage of the New Information and Communication Technologies
Setting up a Network of 4 Resource Centres in new technologies in Galician Municipalities
Putting into practice a Peer-Counselling Service addressed to disabled people
Setting up a System organised under a Teleworking Formula

IES summary page

Institute on Independent Living [I I L]

The Personal Assistance Network developed by IIL during this project provides information, examples of good practice, advice and support for people with extensive disabilities and their organizations so that they can improve their possibilities to:

live and work in society with personal assistance
function as employers for their assistants
support one another in these functions
organize themselves in user cooperatives for personal assistance
work politically for direct payments
The Personal Assistance Network is located within the IIL Virtual Library

IIL summary page

Interessenvertretung Selbstbestimmt Leben [ISL]

ISL's HORIZON project "Peer Counselling in Progress" is situated in Berlin. It considers the employment of disabled people in the area of the former GDR in two ways:

Organising and offering courses, workshops and seminars for disabled people who want to be trained or qualifed as Peer Counsellors for other disabled people, coupled with looking for jobs for those people;
Researching the work of one of the first East German counselling centres to work with the methods of Peer Counselling to determine how disabled people can use Peer Counselling to have better chances in the labour market.
All the staff members (with the exception of the working assistants) are people with disabilities.

ISL summary page

NewLink Project Limited

NewLink has four main strands of work within the FOIRET-PD project:

Training of trainers with a disability as IT tutors, using an experienced tutor as a mentor;
Home-based IT training for adults with a disability (including the use of telematic support for remote training);
Job-coaching for adults with a disability who are seeking employment as teleworkers;
Monitoring changes in student self-esteem through training in IT.
More information may be found on the following pages:

Training the trainers
Home-based training
Job coaching
Changes in student self-esteem
Evaluation of Project
NewLink summary page

Sindacato Italiano Diritti Invalidi [SIDI]

The work of SIDI in the HORIZON national project has consisted of the creation of a multimedia database and an Internet site, containing information on the social assistance services for disabled people in Lazio. Special attention has been given to the needs of disabled women, through the creation of a "pink point", within the database, which provides specific information.
Private and public institutions, which could provide the services to respond to the needs of disabled people, were identified. A survey took place, through questionnaires sent to the institutions, asking them to give all the information regarding the services provided, the accessibility of the building, etc. Through research and meetings with disabled people it was soon clear that need for information went well beyond social assistance services. It was therefore decided to include in the data base information regarding everyday life (such as accessible theatres, cinemas, transport, etc.).
For the creation of the web-site and its maintenance, a 240-hour course was provided for Internet operators, disabled and not.

SIDI summary page

Zentrum für Selbstbestimmtes Leben behinderter menschen [ZSL]

ZSL's National Project Activities include:

Peer Counselling in pairs and groups
Training and attendance of Peer Counsellors
Providing communicative competences
Personal assistance stock market
Services of staff-management for disabled employers (self-organized assistance)
Providing staff leading competences
Meetings and seminars for networking
Expert conference "Jungle paths" - ways for disabled people to the first labour-market
Peer Counselling seminars in Spain
Disabled people with learning difficulties in the first labour-market
Round-table with spokes-women and -men of the seriously disabled in companies
Creating a network amongst organizations / job agencies for disabled people
Creating a network amongst employers

ZSL summary page

Map of the FOIRET-PD Partners

Project Reports

The following Reports of Meetings are currently available [English only]:- >

Meeting of 12/13 December 1997 in Santiago de Compostela [Spain].
Transnational Workplan agreed by the partners in Santiago de Compostela.
Meeting of 8/9 May 1998 in Nottingham [United Kingdom].
Transnational Seminar on Peer Counselling of 5 November 1998 in Rome.
Meeting of 6/8 November 1998 in Rome [Italy].
Meeting of 15/17 April 1999 in Lisbon [Portugal].
Meeting of 15/16 October 1999 in Stockholm [Sweden].
Meeting of 2/4 December 1999 in Berlin [Germany].

HORIZON 1997-2000

HORIZON is the name of one of the four ESF Community Initiatives, and HORIZON funding is targetted at helping people with a disability to secure employment. Similar initiatives exist in favour of women (NOW), young people (YOUTHSTART) and other groups at risk of social exclusion (INTEGRA). All Community Initiative projects combine a domestic project with a transnational project; they are required to be both innovative and capable of generating a strong multiplier effect after suitable dissemination. In common with all ESF funded projects, 45% of total costs are met by the EU while the rest has to come from public authority and private sources. [The ESF contribution can be as high as 75% of total costs in Objective 1 areas.] More information on the EMPLOYMENT and ADAPT initiatives can be found at the EUROPS web-site in English or French.