24-28/03/2020 - Include Transform Realise Transnational Forum II (Turkey)

Conference – Symposium - Forum
24-28 March 2020 | İstanbul, Turkey

Participants from youth sector will gather in İstanbul for the transnational forum “Include, Transform, Realise II”, to discuss how to increase active participation and inclusion of young people with disabilities in Erasmus + YiA Programme.

The Erasmus+ Programme provides multiple opportunities for all, however young people with disabilities still have a limited access to these opportunities due to several physical and attitudinal barriers. It is strongly aimed to reach out youth workers, youth leaders, trainers or facilitators with disabilities and without disabilities in order to improve their capacities of working with young people with disabilities in local/national/international level in terms of Erasmus+ YiA Programme and encourage them to organize inclusive mixed ability group projects.

Specific objectives of the Forum:
-To promote equality, social inclusion and mixed ability youth work in Erasmus + YiA Programme.

-To develop a better understanding of disability within youth work and create a disability-friendly concept of youth work.

-To focus on abilities rather than disabilities to improve the interaction between young people with and without disabilities.

-To identify and discuss common challenges and propose concrete actions, which would help to address those challenges

-To increase the number and the quality of the youth workers, leaders, trainers and facilitators in youth sector who have high awareness of disability and eager to involve young people with disabilities into youth projects by applying inclusive methodologies.

-To provide an opportunity for the NGOs to deepen the dialogue and advance cooperation and develop sustainable partnerships for the future mixed ability group projects within Erasmus + YiA Programme.