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PROFARM Scales-up all over Europe!
Three final events in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands for celebrating the closure of the PROFARM project.
After three years spent in researching, networking and experimenting, the International partners of the PROFARM project have celebrated the sucessful results achieved by organizing a national scale-up event in each partner country!
The kickstarters were the Dutch partners from Zone.college (fomer Groenewelle) and the Duth Foundation of Innovation Welfare to Work that have organized an event in Mastenbroek on the 18th of October. The event started with a presentation from Henk and...
Workshop finale del progetto PROFARM
L’empowerment dell’individuo con disabilità in Agricoltura Sociale... resconto di tre anni di sperimentazione su tutto il territorio regionale!
A tre anni dall'avvio del progetto Erasmus+ KA3 "PROFARM - Rafforzamento del profilo personale e professionale in Agricotura Sociale", la Regione Umbria, capofila del partenariato internazionale, insieme al Centro Studi Città di Foligno, secondo attore della compagine italiana, hanno il piacere di presentare i risultati ottenuti grazie alle numerose sperimentazioni attivate su tutto il territorio regionale.
Il workshop è rivolto principalmente a tutti gli attori...
SECOND INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEW EVENT FOR THE PROFARM PROJECT
30 peers from all over Europe gathered to discuss on the added value of the PROFARM project and to validate the project's deliverables
The fourth transnational meeting of the PROFARM project was held from the 23rd to the 25th of April in Zwolle (the Netherlands). The first day was dedicated to the internal partnership meeting of the project and was arranged at Groene Welle premises. Whereas, the following two days the 2nd international peer-review event took place and was attended by 30 experts from different European countries. The peer-review event was held at several premises, as many technical...
#PROFARMVIDEOCONTEST
Shoot a video on PROFARM and win a trip to Italy!
Starting from the 3rd of April 2018, a new amazing initiative for the promotion of social farming in Europe will be launched by the partner organisations of the PROFARM project. If you are between 16 and 30 years old and you live or work in Italy, Germany or the Netherlands, you will have the chance to show your talent in making digital videos and participate at a contest to attend the final international event of PROFARM in Italy next November 2018!
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Dutch national network ProFarm
Recently Groene Welle has started the first ProFarm network in the Netherlands in ‘Het Vechtdal’, we have made contact with a lot of social farmers in that area. We invited a total of 10 social farmers for our first meeting in January 2017. We also invited care professionals, people from school and the local government. While building up the network, we have made use of the profession and knowledge of the cooperation Landbouw en Zorg Overijssel.
From that time on we have continued...
Transition from school to work for people with disabilities in Germany
based on a compilation by Sina-Sophie Stern, Anthropoi, extended by Gerhard Herz, Anthropoi and adapted by Lena Hüttmann, PETRARCA
The transition from school to the work environment represents an important step for all young people in their life. The German case shows a wide spectrum of measures for young people with different skills and disabilities. In fact, there are legal requirements for certain measures, depending on personal circumstances.
The transition school-occupation can be represented in four fields of action:
A) Vocational Orientation,
B) Career preparation,
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Participate as a piloting farm in PROFARM
The questionnaire for the detection of farms to be involved in the PROFARM experimentation is online
The form for the assessment of the farms, which could fit in the PROFARM experimentation, has been officially published online. The questionnaire is available in 4 different languages, English, Italian, German and Dutch, and will serve as a useful means to proceed towards the next phase of the project.
The goal of this assessment is to find fitting farms, which would like to be active partners of the PROFARM project and will be able to host avocational training for students with special...
First international peer review event for the PROFARM project
18 peers from all over Europe for the validation of the methdological framework
The 3nd partnership meeting of the PROFARM project took place last 13-16 March 2017 in Deckenpfronn, Germany, at the premises of the living and working community of Tennental, one the social farms in the network of the German partner Anthropoi. The internal meeting was scheduled for Monday 13 March, while on the following two days all the partners contributed at the organization of the 1st international peer-review event, which was attended by 18 experts from different European countries....
PROFARM Influence Policy Plan in the Netherlands
Developing a different learning pathway in a different physical environment that is appropriate to the disabilities of the student.
What is your main goal in terms of policy innovation in the fields covered by the project? How do you think that present practices and procedures could improve thanks to the PROFARM project?
Innovative Learning Pathway (work based)
The major objective is to innovate the framework of secondary vocational educational training (MBO), maybe so at all levels on the location of a care farm in such a manner that students with a disability can acquire knowledge, skills and competences in order to be...
PROFARM Influence Policy Plan in Germany
Involving young persons with disabilities into vocational training on social farms in order to increase/improve their future chances on the labour market.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) claims the „right of persons with disabilities to work on an equal basis with others“. In the field of vocational guidance programmes persons with disabilities should be enabled „to have effective access” (Art. 27 1. and 1.(d)).
The German labour market is far from being inclusive. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities criticised this in its Concluding Observations on the...
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