Online Information on Employment and Training Opportunities for Disabled People Conference Presentations

Telematics & Disabilities: Harnessing the Information Society to raise Employment Levels for people with disabilities

Employment Week 98 (Making Employment Policies Work)
3-5 November 1998, Palais des Congres, Brussels

This is the text version of a Powerpoint Presentation

Table of Contents

• The EU Employment Initiative
• EMPLOYMENT Target Groups
• ON-LINE
• Activities under 4 strands
• The TAD Web Site
• CEPADITE Project
• Who takes part in the Cepadite Project?
• Target group: 20 teleworkers with disabilities
• Evaluation

The EU Employment Initiative

• Contributes to the development of human resources
• Improve the working of the labour market
• Promote social solidarity and equal opportunities
• Funding programme 1994 - 1999
• Budget 1,835 billion ECU

EMPLOYMENT Target Groups

• NOW: Improving participation of women in labour market
• HORIZON: Integration of disabled people into work and society
• Integra: New responses to long term employment
• Youthstart: Young people under the age of 20

ON-LINE

The Online Project is developing an electronic learning network available through the Internet providing support and facilities for disabled people to access information on training and employment opportunities.

The network allows integrated access to sources of information and advice on:

• education and training employment
• use of new technologies social networking
• disability information sources support services

Activities under 4 Strands

• Training Information Workers
• The Creation of an Information
• Web and User Accessibility
• Transnational Activities

The TAD Web Site

• To promote the socio-labour insertion of the disabled
• To carry out an experimental research putting telework into practice: advantages and disadvantages of teleworking models ("home based" and "centre-based")
• To promote the exchange of experiences in telework
• To generate a final report about "Good practice on Telework and Disability"

CEPADITE Project

Creating Employment for the Disabled. Employment Tele-Centre

• To promote the socio-labour insertion of the disabled
• To carry out an experimental research putting telework into practice: advantages and disadvantages of teleworking models ("home based" and "centre-based")
• To promote the exchange of experiences in telework
• To generate a final report about "Good practice on Telework and Disability"

Who takes part in the Cepadite Project?

Target group of the Cepadite Project

20 teleworkers with disabilities

Evaluation

Analysis

• To indentify telework tasks and services
• To analysis the profiles of people with disabilities
• To attratcenterprises willing contract teleworkers
• 24th Nov. Workshop through Companies

Design

• Designing the methodology framework
• Designing the Training Program Nov ‘ 98
• Designing the evaluation framework

Implementation

• Setting up the Telecentre
• Training teleworkers & managers
• Management of the Telecentre
• Feb-Dec’ 99
• Ongoing Business & Technical assistance

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