Open Cultural Market with stands presenting the Work Packages during the conference, workshops by new leaders and presentations by project organisers.

For more photos go to Photo Album

For Dating Guides in other languages, please go to Private Life Concepts | ...more Media

The Training Apartment

 Akim Jerusalem

A movie by WP 14 - Families, Transitions and Cultural Pluralism

Click here to watch the film: Training Apartment on this website

"The Social Club "Cupcake Cafe", an open programme and a unique example of social inclusion in the work place of youth and adults with intellectual disabilities." Nik Vujičić u Nišu

Check out the workshop photos on this site

Thank you, it's been the centre of the day!

http://ella-project.blogspot.lt/p/blog-page_47.html

http://ella-project.blogspot.lt/p/partner-no-6-workshop.html

Plans to get married? Go to movie on YouTube

Do you have a boyfriend? Go to movie on YouTube

For all the movies from this project go to Private Life Concepts on this site

RE-CREATION and Leisure Time - Go to the movie on this website

Thanks to JDC - Go to movie on YouTube

Photos by ÖJAB are available, free of charge at this address: ELLA Congress Photos

Videos of the event are available under: Management | ELLA Congress

TO THE WEBSITE

Direct link to the website: ELLA Congress

Kick-Off Meeting

Go to The Art of Recycling

Go to Social Inclusion | ...more Media

To Video from Private Life Concepts: click here

http://ella-project.blogspot.de/p/meeting-in-lithuania.html

More photos under the Art of Recycling | ...more Media and in the Photo Album

Short videos by Peter Davidson, Lilliput Theatre Company & ELLA Project exploring disability rights.

The Playhouse Theatre liaised with partners in Lithuania, Germany & Serbia to identify which issues disabled people feel are most important to them. We then worked with Lilliput Theatre Company, whose members are all Learning Disabled, to create a series of short films exploring these issues.

Videos available under: Private Life Concepts ...more Media and in the Video Archive

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Asking important questions about autonomy: Watch the film

Thanks to the questions created by the participants of Private Life Concepts we were able to make a short documentary at an international and inclusive workshop, organised by the International Bund in cooperation with Aktion Mensch and hosted by the Baunataler Diakonie...here is the trailer

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Asking important questions about autonomy: Watch the film

At the end of September the German project team for ELLA met for the fifth time this last year.

The main objectives were: the preparation of evaluation workshops, taking place at the end of October in Turkey; the exchange of current organisational structures and the financial status of the work packages, which have shown great success so far.

Within the workpackage TrainEEE, an abbreviation for my train to Equality, Education and Europe, young people with special needs from Austria, Serbia and France completed internships in the real labor market in a work area of their choice.

The first week of TrainEEE with interns from Austria took part in April 2014. Five people with disadvantages worked from April 7 until April 11 2014 in a field of their choice: The working fields of internships included administration, gardening, cooking and senior care.

The second TrainEEE week was an intense co-operation with the partners of the workpackage (WP 5): ADAPEI from France and United in Diversity from Serbia.

From each organization five participants, accompanied by three trainers & coordinators, travelled to Vienna, Austria, in order to complete their internships in the ÖJAB facility House Neumargareten which is a senior residence and nursing home. This ÖJAB House, located in the 12Th district in the Austrian capital, has over 220 senior residents and over 150 employees; due to its size it is also providing the appropriate and ideal infrastructural requirements that allowed the interns to choose between a variety of working fields.

One participant (Milica from Serbia) was working in the beauty salon located in the ground floor of the ÖJAB-House, offering manicures. Two participants (Milos and Aleksandar from Serbia) formed a PR team, documenting the project week in Vienna with photos and establishing an interactive social media site about TrainEEE. The other seven participants (Dragana M. and Dragana S. from Serbia as well as the French participants Charlene, Amandine, Aurelien, Constant and Benoit) were the team “Coffeehouse”. They showed incredible effort in baking cakes and sweets in the morning and worked during the afternoons in the Café of the ÖJAB-House selling cakes, serving customers, cleaning dishes, etc. The Café included also the large garden of the ÖJAB-House.

The second TrainEEE week lasted from June 28 (arrival day in Vienna) until July 5 2014 (departure day from Vienna) and also included one orientation and sightseeing day in the beautiful city of Vienna as well as an intercultural BBQ with Austrian young people where the participants had a chance to interact with local people with special needs.

The Implementation Work Package “The Art of Recycling” present their workshop:

RECYCLED MATERIALS

The ELLA project team met twice this year, one meeting was held in Kassel in March, the second took place in April in Frankfurt/Main at the headquarter of Internationaler Bund.

Main topics to be discussed was the communication with the partners with regard to the working packages and the dissemination plan. During the meeting in Frankfurt the chairman of Internationaler Bund, Mr. Thiemo Fojkar, personally welcomed the members of the project team and wished them good success for their work.

We herewith announce the ELLA Turkey Event International Social Inclusion Music and Art Festival to take place between 26 – 30 of October 2014 in Kas/Antalya - Turkey.

All members of Caravan 2000 and our ELLA-Grundtvig Project, as well as other foreign partner organisations are sincerely invited to send groups of maximal 10 participants to take part in the festival's activities (trainings and workshops, roundtables, side line events and activities) and to stage a final performance (show or concert) at the final festival evening. We will try to cover board and lodging costs for everybody. However, to allow for participation of a most possible broad range of organizations, please indicate in the registration form attached whether your organization would be able to contribute also from own budgets. Travel costs have to be covered by participants/their organizations themselves.

We are further welcoming everybody who wants to attend the festival on own costs as a visitor, i.e. to take part in the side line events and activities and as spectator at the Final Festival Evening.

Last, we are also inviting all partners who cannot attend the festival in person to send presentations (Film, Photos, Paintings, etc.) or other informative materials (flyers, posters, etc.) about their organization and its work to be exhibited or disseminated under the frame of the festival.

Please see the Invitation attached for more detailed information about our International Social Inclusion Music and Art Festival. Participants please fill in the Registration Form below and submit it to us by 30th  of June, 2014 at the latest. In case of any further questions you may refer to Kristina Kamp via Email to:

Svenja-Kristina.Kamp@internationaler-bund.de or phone: 0090-530-228-8940 (Monday – Wednesday).

Since January 2014 all WP 8 partners have been making workshops with students/clients/young people and have developed the most prevailing questions/dilemmas regarding Opportunities & Limitations in areas of work/living/leisure.

We have 26 questions!!! Click on this link

In order to conclude which questions are most relevant to most people, we are asking all professions from the social sector with experience in this area of the social sector to be motivated, active and to help WP 8 to make a decision.

Could you please, discuss all 26 questions with your students/clients/young people and give points to the questions what looks most actual, important, relevant and interesting to you.

Each partner has 6 points

The last voting day is 30 April, 2014

On the 26^th and 27^th of February 2014 the Austrian capital Vienna was hosting the TrainEEE preliminary meeting.

The organizing and hosting organization ÖJAB (P2, Austria) welcomed the project coordinators from the TrainEEE associated organizations ADAPEI (P3, France) and United in Diversity (P14, Serbia). The goal of this meeting was to prepare, organize and adjust the internships of young people with disabilities or disadvantages from Austria, France and Serbia. During an intense expert exchange on the first day requirements and preconditions of the participating people with disabilities have been discussed and solved. All facilities involved in the TrainEEE weeks (accommodation and internship working fields) have been visited on the second day. The preliminary meeting was an essential and important tool in order to clarify the appropriate circumstances and conditions for the participants. The guests (Ivana Stajkovic from UiD and Marie-France Le Glaunec from ADAPEI) gained a deeper insight on the circumstances and the facilities which their participants will face during their internships in Vienna. The TrainEEE project manager, Kerstin Klepsch from ÖJAB, was responsible for the organization of the meeting; various ÖJAB staff who are involved in the TrainEEE weeks as translators or coaches also participated in certain program points of the meeting. The first TrainEEE week for the Austrian participants will be held from April 7-11 2014.

Project Coordinators Christiane Lensch and Christine Halas at EU Kick-Off in Brussels

At the end of January the project coordinators of the ELLA-project (Christiane Lensch and Christine Halas) participated in the official Kick-Off-Meeting of all Grundtvig-projects in Brussels. The met the contact people in Brussels and received much useful information and input to take home to Oberursel. Before leaving Brussels they had the chance to visit the European Parliament with a very interesting exhibition in the European Parliaments Visitors Centre "Parlamentarium".

The German Project Team met on December 12, 2013, to collect and discuss the outputs of the Kick-Off-Meeting in November in Hadamar, where all responsible for the work packages met and the project management gave a presentation of the project plan, presented the financial formalities and the first time lines for the work packages were established. In the Project Team Meeting the website of ELLA was audited and some modifications were decided. The EU-Kick-Off-Meeting in Brussels at the end of January was prepared and the jobs to do distributed – next meeting of the German Project Team will be at the beginning of March 2014.

The Kick-Off Meeting was the first meeting with the project team (all responsible persons for the working packages of all five types (Management, Implementation; Quality Assurance, Dissemination and Exploitation) and the steering committee of the ELLA Project. This meeting was held according to the principles of project management.

Oberursel, 22. Juli 2013

A big success for IB - Behindertenhilfe and Caravan 2000!

IB-Behindertenhilfe gets EU-Funding for „ELLA“

IB Behindertenhilfe applied for funding  for the project „ELLA ‐ A European Lifelong Learning Academy – An EducationOffensive For People With Disabilities„ from the LifeLongLearningProgramm Grundtvig in Brussels on behalf of all the members of the "Caravan 2000 Federation" and did so successfully! Only two applications of the 12 that were submitted to the Grundtvig Programm were approved.

It means, that IB Behindertenhilfe, together with its 19 partner organisations will get about 460.000,‐ € from the European Union over a 36 months period. The total cost of the project, including the matching funds that our members will add, amounts to 612.000,‐ €. The start of activities is forseen for November 2013, and the first big event (kick-off-meeting) will be held in November 2013 in the Educational Centre Hadamar/Germany.