From Raising Awareness to Open Labour Market Opportunities for People with Disabilities through Vocational Training and Lifelong Strategies — is a two year project (01.01.2009 - 31.12.2010) funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme of the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission.  It regroups partners from 8 countries, namely Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Malta, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.  The overall aim of the project is to enable people with disabilities to enter into the open labor market by providing them, the professionals who accompany them, the employers and other stakeholders involved in the process, with a learning opportunity based on well tested training materials from four previous projects, 2 Leonardo da Vinci (Conversion and Atlas) and 2 Socrates-Grundtvig (Inclusive Education Model and Mo.bi.le) projects focusing on lifelong opportunities and vocational training for Persons with Disabilities and on their integration in mainstream education and inclusive employment.

As mentioned above, the partnership is regrouping partners from 8 countries: 

1. European Association of Service providers for Persons with Disabilities - EASPD (Belgium)  www.easpd.eu

2. Fontys OSO (the Netherlands)  www.fontysoso.nl

3. Lebenshilfe Graz und Umgebung – Voitsberg (Austria)  http://www.lebenshilfe-guv.at

4. Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport (Malta)  http://www.education.gov.mt

5. B. P. T. spol. s r. o. (Czech Republic)  http://www.ibpt.cz

6. Vision (Bulgaria)  http://www.vision-bg.com

7. Hand in Hand Foundation (Hungary)  http://www.kezenfogva.hu

8. Alpha Transilvana (Romania).  http://www.alphatransilvana.ro

Please visit the our next pages were you find more information about the trainingmaterials, the agenda and hopefully we meet you into our chatroom?   You're also welcome to download the leaflet Pass It On 

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