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The Perfect Match: Training program to overcome boundaries
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project “THE PERFECT MATCH: Training program to overcome boundaries” – TPM, was part of a medium term strategy, undertaken by Lunaria and other European organizations aimed to develop methods and know how to create inclusive projects for young people with disability. The project answered to the need of implementing high quality activities targeted to heterogeneous groups, including young people without and with disability, specifically in this actions, blind and visually impaired. For this reason the project aimed to further develop social inclusion strategies and methodologies to allow heterogeneous groups of young people with and without disabilities to participate in active citizenship actions at local and European level. The project included two training courses - TCs: * one TC for youth workers, which sow the participation of 31 social and youth workers active locally in organizations or youth centres. The TC goal was to promote the exchange of good practices in the disability framework; to share pilot projects; and to experiment, assess and upgrade new innovative methods, coming from the combination of non-formal education and outdoor activities; * one TC for peer educators, which sow the involvement of 31 youngsters with and without disabilities, aimed to test the methodology previously developed in the TC for youth workers and to create a Tool Kit of activities for new projects. Both training courses, 8 days long, were held in Poggio Mirteto (RT), Italy, involved the following countries: Italy, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Greece and Hungary. The implemented activities included: interactive workshops, laboratories and thematic sessions on disability and ICL; “barriers”-how to approach and overcome them; language and labels; good practices and working methods sharing; development of new interactive tools to ease the interaction of young people with and without disabilities; methods testing, assessing and upgrading; sessions on how to pass the knowledge acquired. The working methods envisaged were based on the principles of the non formal education - NFE which promotes the active learning, the permanent interaction among participants and experts and the peer exchange. Both the TCs sow a combination of NFE methods with artistic and outdoor activities. The project main outcomes were the development of new tools and competences for youth-social workers and peer educators, to improve the quality of they work in the field of disability; the training of a group of young people that afterwards has transmitted at local level, to other peers, the knowledge and methods acquired. In a long term and sustainable perspective, the project enhance networking among EU organizations active in the field of disability, contributed to the implementation of the medium term strategy and brought to the implementation of new projects, as workshops, youth exchanges and trainings targeted to heterogeneous groups.
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