Event

Discover the Change4Inclusion Project – working towards inclusive workplaces

Change4Inclusion (C4I) is a ESF+ project led by GTB (running from July 2021 to February 2023) in partnership with EPR (Belgium), SIVA (Latvia), Fundación Intras (Spain) and three partners from Flanders: Sterpunt Inclusief Ondernemen, Pulso Europe and GRIP. The project aims to support employers to work towards inclusive workplaces and to make a shift of mindset towards a learning and inclusive organisation culture. The tools developed in the context of the project will help to anchor inclusive job design (including by means of job crafting and job carving) in a sustainable way in an enterprise or an organisation.

C4I builds on an earlier project involving EPR and run by GTB, Talentoscoop (cf. the project page in Dutch), which developed a service model in which every social NGO has a single point of contact to connect organisational questions with recruitment of new staff, retention of already employed staff, workplace learning and job creation. Whereas Talentoscoop dealt more with questions of professional inclusion and human resource management, the focus of the Change4Inclusion Project is more on how (top-)management can realise an inclusive organisation, based on own values and the own service mission and on how the organisation culture can be changed in a sustainable manner towards one promoting the inclusion of workers with a disability or health problem.

The Flemish project partners, also building on feedback from the international partners Fundación Intras (Spain), SIVA (Latvia) and EPR (Belgium) and on the testing of an interview guideline and manual, have elaborated and/or adapted a number of (existing) tools which will be presented. These include 1) guidelines for interviews with employers and an interview manual”, 2) the “MentorCafé” concept and the training of mentors, 3) the involvement of peer mentors/experiential experts and their training, 4) a business case for the implementation of co-production of services by a service provider organisation and 5) policy recommendations.

You find more details in the agenda and on the project webpage. There you also find an infographic on the main deliverables of the project and the reports of and photos from the two transnational project partners meetings in Latvia end of March 2022 and in Spain mid-September 2022, hosted by SIVA and Fundación INTRAS.

During the Q&A sessions and in the interactive session of the webinar, EPR members are invited to ask questions on the main insights and learnings from the C4I Project and to engage in an exchange and mutual learning process on what are the preconditions for the use and/or an adaptation of the tools developed in the context of the C4I Project in their own countries and in their own organisation.

The webinar is open to EPR members only and to participants invited by the EPR Secretariat.

They are invted to register to the webinar by filling out the registration form at the latest by Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 14:00 (see link below).

Participants registered by Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 14:00, will receive the link to the zoom meeting in the afternoon later on this day.