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 THE PROJECT
AUXILIA background
Although the trend in social policy during the past two decades has been to promote inclusion and participation and to combat exclusion, throughout Europe, the number of young disabled involved in education is growing, approximately 38 million European people have a disability. The education process is crucial to facilitate their inclusion but it is also full of obstacles for these persons with enormous impairing consequences for their complete and active integration in society. In this respect, it becomes crystal clear that education is the terrain where the challenge for the social integration of these people has to start.
Main objectives
The objective of project AUXILA is precisely to contribute to tackling this fundamental problem through a systematic programme that combines the following activities:
- knowledge generation on best-practice youth-disable inclusion processes in formal and mainstream education;
- development of video and online multimedia training material;
- testing of training material with stakeholders of European educational communities;
- wide European dissemination and transfer of training material and knowledge, supported by permanent advisory facility to provide guidance to European schools and learning communities wishing to share and transfer AUXILIA' results into their local environments;
- stimulation of an European online network of stakeholders interested in the understanding, practice and transfer of youth-disable-inclusion practices and processes.
AUXILIA work-programme
This work-programme is designed to generate activities and results that have a high demonstration effect and are highly transferable, scalable and sustainable. They will clearly demonstrate the potential of most innovative inclusive methodologies and technologies through both the systematisation of best-practice inclusion processes and the development of the hard and online training material for all the stakeholders involved by the project. They will transfer and scale up through the dissemination activities and, particularly, the role of AUXILIA' permanent advisory facility, providing guidance to European schools and educational communities wishing to join and share results with the AUXILIA constituency.
Pioneer educational networks project partners
The project plans to take advantage of two unique resources, project partners:
These global competitions for excellence not only collect best practice but also, by definition, highlight those cases where the learning community contains sufficient entrepreneurial impulse to share its results with the world. Both Challenges offer global networks for wide European and international dissemination of the results of the project. A careful review of the finalist youth- and school- oriented projects (roughly 150) from these two competitions will yield, on the one hand an overview of the places and typology of innovation, and on the other hand a group of selected relevant EU-based experiences for analysis. The project generates knowledge about youth-disable inclusion processes in mainstream and formal education in the form of an extensive review and in-depth case studies. This is used to develop video and online training material on youth-disable inclusion processes for piloting in physical (workshop) training in schools in Rome, Stockholm and Valencia. This cities provide the educational (Schools and Universities) testing-ground for the implementation, demonstration and improvement of the training material for wide European access and transfer of results. An assessment of the pedagogical and technical value of the training material is conducted following the three workshops and a comparative synthesis of results produced.
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