Handi'Cap sur l'Europe

Disability

European mobility

Handi'Cap sur l'Europe, accessible and inclusive mobilities

As coordinator of a consortium, Cap Ulysse launched the Handi'Cap sur l'Europe project with Pôle Emploi, Institut Don Bosco and ADGESSA. ARI, ADAPEI and IRSA joined us later. The aim is to strengthen inclusion in European mobility programs.

Summary

Launched in
2015
5
European partners
Results
Since 2015, the Handi'Cap sur l'Europe project has sent more than 300 learners with disabilities and nearly 100 professionals in the medical-social sector located in Gironde to Europe.

Project Details

With this experience and expertise recognized by its peers and the Erasmus + Agency with the “good practice” label awarded to the consortium in 2019, Cap Ulysse is committed to making an exception a rule.

For the learners with disabilities, an internship in Europe represents a real added value in the eyes of their families and next employers. A unique opportunity to develop personal and professional skills, and to facilitate the insertion onto the job market.

For professionals, meeting European counterparts is a chance to learn new approaches, take a step back from their own practices, expand their network, or even strengthen their motivation and team spirit. It also gives professionals more confidence to promote mobility experiences to their learners and colleagues, and to secure their learners' mobility stays.

The CU team

The team in charge of the project

Elisabeth Silva

Founder, operational direction

Priscilla Barnard

Administrative and financial manager

The partners

Feedback from the involved persons

The project participants' or partners' opinions

Thanks to their Erasmus + mobility, trainees are aware of what they have achieved by spending a month abroad. They have succeeded in working and living away from their usual environment. They feel they have grown through their European experience, and are better able to take the initiative in their future endeavors.

Stéphane

Technical Instructor

By overcoming their fears and physical, psychological and economic disabilities with regard to a rewarding challenge, our participants gain in autonomy, open-mindedness and adaptability.

Cristian

DITEP Director

The aim is to encourage young Europeans with disabilities to enter and remain in the workforce. This is essential if we are to avoid any break in their career path, which would exacerbate the risks of social exclusion and isolation.

Virginie

IME Coordinator

Frequently asked questions

Are learners with disabilities represented in the figures of groups participating in an Erasmus + mobility?

During the Coremob 2023 meetings, Cap Ulysse led a workshop on inclusive mobility, identifying the main obstacles and levers to mobility for learners with disabilities. According to the magazine La mobilité Erasmus + n°18, learners with disabilities represented 2.4% of higher education and vocational training students who left in 2018-2019.

Is there any available support to enable learners with disabilities to take part in mobility programs?

Inclusion is one of the 4 priorities of the Erasmus + program supported by the Erasmus + Agencies in the various countries.

Each National Agency is free to make it its own priority. The French Agency has long supported the mobility of learners with disabilities in the Handi'Cap sur l'Europe consortium, covering part of the cost of accompanying staff. In March 2024, the new Guide to Inclusion put an end to this practice, funding the costs of accompanying staff only from the 60th day after departure. Nevertheless, it continues to fund their living and travel expenses from day one.

Is there any organization in Europe that could help us?

Backed by its experience and European network, Cap Ulysse launched the Make it Inclusive network in 2024, a network of players committed to European mobility. Would you like to participate? Join the network and benefit from the contacts of nearly 100 committed actors in Europe.

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