ENSA General Assembly Report of activities 2010Disability working group

Coordination

General Council of Val de Marne / Conseil général du Val de Marne

Direction des services aux personnes âgées et aux personnes handicapées / Direction of services for elderly and disabled people

Activities in 2010

4 meetings

February, Créteil (Val-de-Marne - France)

April, Sevilia (Andalucia - Spain)

June, Madrid (Spain)

October, Offenbach (Germany)

Projects in 2010

One common project : « Design for all » dealing with accessibility, in partnership with :

Solna City

Orebro Region

Andalousia

Veneto Region

=> End in July 2010

=> New project planed for 2011-2013 (GRUNDTVIG)

Projects in 2010

Selection by the EC for a new project : D-Active

Partnership :

Partners: 1.      Consorzio CO&So Firenze, ITALY (coordinator)

2.      Comune di Firenze, ITALY

3.      Regione Veneto, ITALY

4.      Conseil General du Val de Marne, FRANCE

5.      INIT Developments Ltd, GERMANY

6.      Universitatea din Pitesti, ROMANIA

7.      Inst. Valenciano de Atencion a Discapacitados y Accion Social, SPAIN

8.      Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH, AUSTRIA

9. Local Union of Municipalities and Town Council of Attica, GREECE

Other projects in the framework of our working group

- Staff exchanges between Varberg and Val-de-Marne

=> 2 x 1 week

=> 4 professionals

=> LEONARDO

Youth in Action “Friends Beyond Border” - Leader Veneto (ulss Padoue)

Leader: Veneto Region – Direction of Social Services

Partners:

Junta de Andalucia (Spain)- Departement of social equity and welfare

Municipality of Veria (Greece) – Social Services Departement

=> about 40 young people are involved

Bilateral study visits

Castellon to Val-de-Marne (November 2010)

Projects for 2011

Meeting focusing on employment, September 2011, Val d’Aost (Italy)

Meeting focusing on employment and support for people with psychic disability, November 2011, Eskilstuna (Sweden)

=> Answering the GRUNDTVIG 2012 call

Connexions with the elderly working group (technical aid for example and support to carers)

Dynamisme of the network

Local authorities leading projects, dealing with concrete problems and organizing solutions and services…

… thanks to European projects and networks, we try to contribute to involve more actors (NGO, companies…) in order to raise dynamism and quality of services towards our public in situation of disability

Thank you for your attention !