Rural independent life Erasmus+ project is an innovative and comprehensive training program for professionals (social workers, adult educators, professionals of municipalities’ services who attend people with disabilities) aimed to promote social inclusion and independent living for PwDs living in rural areas in the respect of article 19 of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities.
In particular, the project aims to:

• identify the information and methodological needs of professionals from rural municipalities covered by the project, when they attend PWD and to promote independent living in their social inclusion process.
• develop a transnational workshop aimed to staff of adult education of PWD which allow them to plan and design an innovative training for professionals of rural municipalities, social workers, NGO staff and/or adult educators of PWD on deinstitutionalization and comprehensive support for an independent life of people with disabilities in rural areas.
• implement training courses aimed to mentor and plan the independent living process of a person with disabilities and also what is the figure of personal assistant figure (Required specific and general competencies, and also transversal competences).
• mentor the process of PWD in their path for independent living by the professionals trained during the project life.
• disseminate results, training and tools created at a transnational level.

The partnership is composed by Ozara (Slovenia), Istituto dei Sordi di Torino (Italy), Istanbul Gelisim University (Turkey), Fekoor (Spain), Equip (Denmark), Famma (Spain), coordinated by COCEMFE Sevilla (Spain).

The project is in the middle of its life: it started in November 2021 and will end in May 2024. Attached to this article and on the website the qualitative study about the needs of professionals that deal with PwDs. 

Rural In Life Erasmus plus project number: 2021-1-ES01-KA220- ADU-000033482

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