Through Autism Spectrum Pathways (ASP) – Inclusivity Beyond Formative Education and in the Workplace we focuse on increasing employment opportunities for autistic people.
IN ROMANIA
Adults with autism face numerous barriers, concern for real access to the labor market is very limited, and the effects are devastating:
ONLY 1% HAVE A JOB
while in Europe the employability percentage is 10%
75% LIVE WITH THEIR PARENTS
compared to 16% of disabled people
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS such as anxiety and depression
which most of them have are directly correlated with the lack of job
Together we can help them get their first job
To have real access to the labor market, a joint public-private effort is needed to increase access to professional development programs for youth and adults with autism.
WHAT WE DO IN THIS PROJECT
Currently, it is estimated that around seven million people in Europe are on the autism spectrum. Yet, the autistic community remains greatly underemployed: while the overall employment rate in the EU currently sits at 73%, estimates show that for the autistic population, this figure can drop to below 10%. This project will provide training to autistic jobseekers, VET schools and employers to increase the employment opportunities of individuals on the autism spectrum and improve the accessibility and inclusion of autistic employees in the workplace.
ASP’s main open-source outputs and objectives will be:
· A state-of-the-art research report with a comprehensive analysis of the requirements and challenges to increase the employment opportunities for autistic candidates.
· Expert-reviewed employment guides for autistic jobseekers, VET schools and employers.
· A freely accessible online interactive training platform with learning modules on employment for autistic jobseekers, VET teachers/trainers and employers.
· The first European-wide digital map of autism associations and companies already employing or who are willing to employ autistic candidates.
· A European network of autism associations, trainers, VET schools and employers.
· A project website with the above-mentioned outputs as well as a YouTube page featuring the voices of the project’s autistic jobseekers and their pathways to employment.
Through these objectives, the ASP project will promote diversity and inclusion in employment while also increasing the potential to boost the EU’s labour force and economy.
Autism Spectrum Pathways (ASP) – Inclusivity Beyond Formative Education and in the Workplace
Project code: 2022-2-BE01-KA220-VET-000095420
Implementation period: 1.01.2023 – 31.12.2024
Overall budget of the project: 250,000 eur
Partners: - PAGS (Belgium) – project coordinator - Autism Europe (Belgium) – partner - Help Autism Association (Romania) – partner - Synapsis Foundation (Poland) – partner - Babel Idiomas (Spain) – partner
More about Erasmus+
Erasmus+ is the EU Programme in the fields of education, training, youth and sport for the period 2021-2027. The general objective of the Programme is to support, through lifelong learning, the educational, professional and personal development of people in education, training, youth and sport, in Europe and beyond, thereby contributing to sustainable growth, quality jobs and social cohesion, to driving innovation, and to strengthening European identity and active citizenship.
Priorities of the Erasmus+ programme:
- inclusion and diversity,
- digital transformation,
- environment and fight against climate change,
- participation in democratic life, common values and civic engagement.
Știri despre proiect
HelpHIRE
HelpHIRE is Help Autism Association's program through which we share resources, know-how and availability of our specialists to support the real integration of people with autism into the labor market.
The development direction of the program was launched in May 2022 together with the launch of the project: Increasing the chances of access to the labor market for people with autism, it is not limited to this project, and includes:
- I can internship - pilot paid internship program
- AcceDis - Access to the labor market for people with disabilities
- Autism Spectrum Pathways (ASP) – Inclusiveness in Education and the Workplace
- In the long run, HELP Autism Association aims to develop inclusive micro-enterprises as an alternative to existing jobs in Romania
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