Training as Vehicle to Employment

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Working with government agencies in several European countries to ensure that their trainee and internship programs are also open to qualified people with disabilities.

Project Update March 2008

We have made this booklet for public employers about how to use traineeships/internships as a recruitment tool (pdf, 1MB). We believe that by making internships and trainee programs accessible to all the opportunities for young qualified persons, including persons with disabilities, to establish themselves in the labour market increases. If you are interested in receiving a printed copy of the booklet, please contact Nicoletta Zoannos.

Booklet in all languages

• Bulgarian
• Finnish
• German
• Greek
• English
• Latvian
• Spanish

Comparison

See the comparison between several European state agencies’ training positions, disability policies and accessibility work.

About the Project

Working with government agencies in several European countries we labour to ensure that their trainee and internship programs are also open to qualified people with disabilities. To improve the chances of disabled youth in the labour market we plan to list training opportunities where disabled youth can gain valuable work experience and insight into the operations of top level agencies. The training opportunities will be published on our website.

The consortium for the project Training as Vehicle to Employment consists of the Independent Living Institute, Sweden (lead partner), the Centers for Independent Living in Bad Kreuznach (Germany), Dublin, Helsinki, Thessaloniki/Athens, Iniciativas y Estudios Sociales, Spain, Integracja, Poland, Apeirons, Latvia.

This work, however, is too important to be limited to our partnership. We invite concerned organizations everywhere to join us in our project as Associated Partners. At the moment we have one Associate Partner in Bulgaria.

For a more detailed description of the project and our methods please see the project proposal we used in our application.