To access the resource, click on the country flag below to select your preferred language.Links to Organisations at European LevelThe British Council - Teachers' AssociationsClick on the following link to find details that the British Council have for teachers' associations and groups in Europe, Caucasus and Russia. www.britishcouncil.org/eltecs-members-regions-europe-caucasus-and-russia.htm European Commission - Education and TrainingEU actions in education and training aim to improve the quality of learning systems and provide greater opportunities for people at all stages of their lives. http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.htm CEDEFOPEuropean Centre for the Development of Vocational Education email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ESIB - The National Unions of Students in EuropeAs a collective body representing Europe’s students, ESIB has explicit policies concerning disability and access that are favourable to the take-up of Qatrain; ESIB is also represented as an important stakeholder in various levels of VET policy-making. EFVET - The European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingA professional association which has been created by and for providers of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in all European countries EDF - The European Disability ForumEDF is a European umbrella organisation representing more than 50 million disabled people in Europe. Its mission is to ensure that disabled citizens have full access to fundamental and human rights through their active involvement in policy development and implementation in the European Union. Disability IntergroupA cross party group of the Members of the European Parliament from each of the 25 EU Member States supporting the rights of disabled people. www.edf-feph.org/apdg/index-en.htm QATRAIN (Quality Assurance & Accessible Training)The QATRAIN Project focuses on Quality Assurance and Accessible TRAINing in Europe and aims to help remove barriers to participation for disabled people in mainstream Vocational Education and Training (VET). Validating Mentoring 2VM2 is a European project that aims to promote and develop mentoring programmes as a tool for career development of people who are in a disadvantaged position when seeking and securing employment. e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Enabling Teachers and Trainers to Improve Accessibility of Adult EducationETTAD enables teachers and trainers to ensure people with disabilities are fully integrated into adult education by removing barriers to their entry and successful participation. The project provides people with disabilities with a wider range of opportunities for learning and personal development and is also a major step forward in combating discrimination. e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Empowerment Through Study Training Enabling Education and MentoringThe ESTEEM project aims to empower learners who are disadvantaged in access to training and employment by: formalising their non-formal and informal learning; enabling them to make more effective use of existing training opportunities; bringing them directly into the assessment of the delivery process, and matching programme content and delivery more closely with learner needs and requirements. The ESTEEM project is in operation in Bulgaria, Greece, Malta, Turkey and the UK. e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it e-Access IIeAccess II Portal intends to promote access to the European Vocational Training by facilitating searching, sharing and reuse of accessible e-Training Resources and/or accessible e-Training Courses. email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Links to Organisations across the UKDepartment of Children, Schools and FamiliesInclusion - supporting individual learning needs email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it e-Learning Gateway - resources for tutorswww.elearning.soton.ac.uk/tutors/accessibility.htm Centre for Inclusive Learning Support (CILS), University of WorcesterEstablished in September 2005 under the direction of Dr Val Chapman (NTF), the Centre staff are currently engaged in five broad areas of work on inclusive learning and teaching, mainly in the area of disability. e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it USEMYABILITYThe purpose of the project is to improve the employability of disabled students. This will be achieved by building on the knowledge acquired by the establishment of the existing heavily used resource SCIPS (Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programmes of Study (http://www.scips.worc.ac.uk/) to develop a new web-based resource, ‘USEMYABILITY’. It aims to enhance graduate employability by equipping disabled students with skills to match employability competencies, and to contribute to institutional strategic priorities across the sector (that is, the Disability Equality Duty applicable to all HEIs) and to the national strategy of encouraging employers to employ more disabled persons. email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Leonardo - European Training for the UKLeonardo funds opportunities for UK vocational education & training organisations, staff and learners. Funding is for any UK organisation involved in vocational education & training.  |
Project No: LLP-LdV-TOI-2007-UK-065
