“Your education has no limits: Develop your future”
10.11.2011 | | Madrid | Spain
Network themes: Transition to adult life and the labour market
Mon, 01/11/2010
Project website
Fundación ONCE website
Summary
This is a project to raise awareness of disability issues aimed at promoting the active presence of people with disabilities in the university through educational awareness-raising sessions involving compulsory secondary education students (14-16 years old) and A-level students with disabilities, parents and teachers.
Project object:
Ultimately aimed at normalising occupational integration processes for people with disabilities, “Your education has no limits: Develop your future” seeks to achieve the following results in the medium term:
► Raise awareness among society, through the educational community, of the importance of an equal-opportunity higher education for people with disabilities.
► Spread the idea that completing one’s university studies provides easier access to quality jobs, which in turn ensure a degree of autonomy and independence for adults.
► Emphasise the everyday presence of people with disabilities in the workforce.
► Raise the number of people with disabilities who go on to A-level education (16 to 18 years). Since A-level studies start after completing compulsory secondary education, this achievement should gradually begin to appear in one to four years.
► Secure recommendations and proposals to improve the educational environment that favour students with disabilities at advanced educational levels and that, as a result, help to prevent students from leaving their studies early.
Methodology
The programme consists of developing a series of informative talks that outline the benefits of access to higher education and present the testimonies of people with different types of disabilities that have successfully completed their higher education and entered the job market in various sectors of activity.
These talks are complemented with related information available to anyone interested on an accessible online platform on the Repsol Foundation’s website (www.fundacionrepsol.com), where you can also track the project’s development and see its content.
The website contains a blog where comments of interest are posted and where interested people can exchange their ideas and contributions. Everything here aims to facilitate access to all the programme’s content, encourage continued contact among the talk attendees, connect with the youngest users and establish a technical assistance area to solve questions that may come up during the sessions.
The programme, a pilot on its first run, was developed from November 2010 to May 2011 in the autonomous communities of Madrid and Extremadura with the support of the regional ministries of education in both communities, as well as the Spanish Ministry of Education. The programme led to 26 awareness-raising actions with 1,210 attendees.
Target
The programme is aimed at compulsory secondary education and A-level students, family members, teachers and members of civil society organizations.
Good practice innovations
The talks held in the public, private and charter compulsory secondary education schools in the communities of Madrid and Extremadura adhere in design and execution to the parameters of universal accessibility and design for all in all their content.
The methodology used encourages the assertive involvement of all participants in the talk, interspersing game-based techniquesto stimulate individual and group reflection.
The programme also has a blog through which the participants or interested people can keep in contact with the experts and organisers of the talks.
According to the data collected from the quality survey, the talks were considered very satisfactory, and 97% of the attendees would recommend the programme to other people.
Project partners and other stakeholders
ONCE Foundation and Repsol Foundation, with the collaboration of the Spanish Committee of Disabled People (CERMI)
Good practice testimonial
“If the university is where you want to go, don’t cast it aside because you have a disability. Don’t let anybody convince you otherwise, because with education the chances for people both with and without disabilities to get a job are even.”
Author of the testimonial and the relationship with the good practice
Alberto Durán, Executive Senior Vice President of the ONCE Foundation (Session to present the project at the IES Miguel de Cervantes, Móstoles, Madrid)
Re: “Your training has no limits: Develop your future”
Submitted by madrid_partner on Mon, 26/09/2011 - 12:11
"The future depends on yourself because the boundaries are where we put it." Isidre Esteve, rally driver with disabilities.
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