Disability Awareness – A New Challenge for Employees

DARE Project Disability Awareness – a New Challenge for Employees Project implemented as part of the Lifelong Learning –Transfer of Innovation initiative of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme

Partnership Jagiellonian University Università degli Studi di Padova Learning Difference, United Kingdom Euroinform Ltd., Bulgaria Federacion de Asociaciones de Minusválidos Físicos de Córdoba (FEPAMIC), Spain

Project’s aims: Main aim: to enhance the qualifications of academic teachers and administration staff in the field of disability and disabled people’s participation in the society based on disability knowledge

Detailed aims: providing the target groups with reliable knowledge concerning disability, its types, its physiological and psychological consequences, eliminating the barriers faced by disabled people in their daily lives and ways to achieve that, developing in the target groups an active attitude supporting disabled persons based on reliable knowledge acquired in the training,

equipping the target groups with the skills of making correct and effective contact with disabled people, eliminating negative attitudes related to disability, stereotypes and withdrawal attitudes, improving the image of disabled people as students, applicants and work colleagues.

Outcomes of the project Training courses for academic teachers and administrative staff Web site

…inclusion…technology… …visual impairment…

…understanding mental health…

…hearing impairment…

…thinking about dyslexia…

…systems…good practice… …the environment…