Need for Lead

Project leader: Terra Tech Förderprojekte e.V

Period: 01.11.2021 – 31.05.2024

Partners: Terra Tech Förderprojekte e.V , Clictic S.L. Spain, ASOCIACION JUVENIL ALMENARAS, ASOCIATIA NEVO PARUDIMOS, Együttható Közösségépítő Egyesület

Number of the proiect: 2021-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000033812

Budget: 165 262,00 eur

Nevo Parudimos implements, as a partner, between 01.11.2021-01.11.2023 the project Need for Lead.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having severe and long-lasting consequences around the globe, which are further aggravated for marginalized groups, people with disabilities, especially parents and families of those representatives of the vulnerable group. As the result, during and after lockdowns in different countries, family members of people with disabilities have to stay at home. This leads to great job loss and problems within the economic sector.

Moreover, it leads to depression and mental problems of family members and parents, who are struggling to find governmental support and are facing a lack of communication. Likewise, the pandemic has already significantly accelerated the digitalization trend, including in the world of work.

Taking into account mentioned above facts, the ‘Need for Lead’ projects was designed. It aims to address and present the solution to the two needs:

1. To develop a Guide (Methodology) of mental adaptation of family members of those disadvantaged groups. (We will create a space for new knowledge and abilities for the social and community workers, volunteers, educators. This knowledge and skills will assist to transform the set of minds of family members of people with disabilities).
2. Solution on online employment. This will be training on online professions that will give space, time, flexibility to every parent individual.

An inclusive digital future of work is key to the achievement of this Sustainable Development, which is the main basis for the development of the ‘Need for Lead’ project. All stakeholders, including governments, companies, trade unions, employers’ organizations, centers of persons with disabilities, NGOs, have an important role to play in creating a digitally inclusive future of work that benefits all people. This project is considered as a bridge between people with disabilities and their families with the whole national, local, and even international community through digital technologies. We plan to achieve a set of objectives within this project:

– to improve the mental adaptation of family members of people with disabilities;

– to convey the knowledge on working online and digital skills to the target group of this project;

– to improve inclusion in Europe and decrease a gap between the whole society and people with disabilities, as well as their relatives;

– to contribute to adult education, to make it more flexible, to improve digital education;

– to improve digital qualification for all spheres of lives by all our target groups;

– to raise awareness about the European funds (including the Erasmus+ programme) and opportunities for life-long learning, as well as all types of mobilities.

This project targets the following social representatives as beneficiary beings: – family members with disabled people; – adults, who are facing exclusion difficulties due to the pandemic changes and discrepancy between the educational offers and market demands;

– local institutions, which strive to improve qualification and increase the ability of communities to create new working places (e.g. social centers, academies, job centers, volunteers, NGOs, etc);

– trainers and educators (as the project will provide training for trainers); – social and community workers, policymakers (as the projects aim to deliver the knowledge on the digitalization and mental support to the vulnerable societies);

– local organizations, institutions and public bodies that deal with disabled people; – other relevant stakeholders (social workers, activists, etc); – those individuals who will pass on gained knowledge to the wider circles. By providing our target audience with opportunities to develop their digital competencies, creative skills, knowledge on the opportunities to be included in all the processes in their communities, building cultural awareness, the partners’ consortium aims to support their participatory involvement in social, cultural, and economic actions.

As a result, this will contribute to promoting a positive image of the Digitalization Plan in Europe. It will raise awareness on the topic among the main beneficiaries, who, in turn, will convey relevant knowledge further in their communities. Because of being international this project targets to improve local communities’ performance in inclusion and digitalization, engaging new players in the social and economic life of every participating country.