Project Database

Country
Croatia
Title
Croatia: IPA — Access to Education by Students with Disabilities
Subject Area
Social Inclusion
Donor organization
EuropeAid
Start of Project
January 2010
End of Project
September 2011
Duration
20 months
Partner Organisations
GET/ICON , ATC, Tau, S.I.C.I.
Description of Project
General objective:
To enhance educational accomplishments of students with disabilities, according to their needs, their overall labour-market prospects and their overall social integration

Specific objectives:
To develop essential building blocks for innovative mechanisms at national and regional level that enable access of the students with disabilities into the VET system and to the labour market.

Components:
  1. Modernisation of selected VET curricula for students with disabilities, high-quality VET in-service training system, and education of grant applicants in relation to procedures and mechanisms related to the IPA grant scheme;
  2. Appropriate set of harmonised relevant legal acts in the field of education of students with disabilities;
  3. Employers have a better capacity to provide apprenticeship mechanisms to students with disabilities.
Description of Services

Technical assistance in establishing innovative/modernised mechanisms at national/regional level that enable access of students with disabilities into the vocational education and training (VET) system

  • Training needs assessment and proposal for training of VET teachers
  • Organise study visits and workshops
  • Strengthening beneficiaries’ capacities to apply for additional funds under IPA grant schemes
  • Deliver training for grant applicants and beneficiaries
  • Analysis of existing legal framework
  • Training and assistance for a working group for harmoniation and improvement of legal framework
  • Training of employers
  • Awareness raising

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