EQUIL: employment opportunity for all

The EQUIL project – Equality in Learning, co-funded by Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Strategic partnerships for adult education, aims to promote the integration into the labor market of people with current or past mental health problems. The project foresees the development of training tools aimed at educators and social workers that work for supporting their social integration, especially in the labour market.

To achieve this goal, the active participation of different actors is very important, as social workers, people with lived mental experiences, potential employers, job centres, training centres, through different activities depending on the type of target, in order to get a concrete overview about their needs. For example, in the case of people affected by mental issues and social workers, the activities will be mostly focus groups and Learning Activities (International Workshops), while employers will be consulted through online questionnaires.

The partners will use the methodology of Co-production, to ensure that all actors are equally and actively participating in the development of training tools.

The first step will be the Learning Activity (Liverpool, 25^th-29^th of January 2016) involving twelve people with current or past mental health problems and six social workers of the following partner countries (Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Spain), in which the participants will contribute to the development of training tools, by sharing their ideas, experiences, expectations and needs.

The partners have already begun their work, implementing the Kick off meeting in Palermo the 14^th and 15^th of November 2015, in which they outlined important aspects of the project, planning Partnerships’ working plan and the first objectives willing to achieve.

For example partners are working on the development of the project website, in which Projects’ final products will be available, such as training tools mentioned above.

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