Inclusive Development of Guidelines for Practice

We organizes six focus groups in Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Slovenia.

In each country, there were  a focus group A with at least 5 participants from sheltered workshops who have intellectual disabilities.

Additionally, there were be a focus group B with at least 3 participants from group A, 3 employers, and 4 inclusion experts.

At least 2 of the inclusion experts should have vocational education and training responsibilities in a sheltered workshop.

We  wrote a report about the things we talked about in our groups.

We want to understand how these talks can help us make the Include³ method better.

We  also made some rules and goals to follow when we improve the method.

3 regional community engagement and multiplier events were organized in Cyprus, Slovenia, and a joint event in Belgium and Germany .

These events will involved at least 15 participants in Cyprus and Slovenia, and at least twenty participants in Belgium and Germany.

The participants  included local businesses, local/regional policymakers, and disability activists.

Six focus groups in three countries (in each of the three countries a focus group A with at least five sheltered-workshop participants with intellectual disabilities, focus group B with at least three participants from group A, three employer and four inclusion experts, at least two of which have VET responsibilities in a sheltered workshop.

Focus groups will be moderated and observed by two members of the project teams.

Report on the focus groups with particular attention to the implications for developing the Include³ method of informing sheltered VET through CGC further.

Guidelines for method development, outlining the principles which the method has to follow and defining standards the process is to be measured by and prospective outcomes to be achieved.

Three regional community-engagement/multiplier events (CY, SI and one joint BE/DE) with at least fifteen participants in CY and SI, and at least twenty in BE/DE (at least one of these each: local business, local/regional policy makers, disability activists.

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