Labour market integration lies at the roots of all EU economies, especially regarding the employment inclusion of minority groups. The project aims to increase employment rates among persons with disabilities, especially those from disfavored areas. Project activities will serve to develop tailored support. In the short run, the project will increase the participation of people with disabilities in the labour market. It will reinforce job-seeking skills and enrich the soft skills of individuals like self-confidence in the job market. As per Theory of change our aim is also to establish and maintain partnerships with employers and acknowledge them with challenges faced by persons with disabilities. This can be an opportunity to alleviate the consequences of demographic changes that European economies face nowadays. In addition, the project idea is to empower young NEETs and support them in finding the purpose of their professional activities. The change will be measured in the number of persons who identify and maintain jobs in their interest. Our ambition is that JB reaches the planned number of participants and professional staff trained. Thanks to our consortium members, we plan to disseminate the project outcomes and outputs among the several networks. We plan to conduct a survey among job crafting beneficiaries in Poland and Slovenia as part of ex-post evaluation and investigate the satisfaction levels of participants. The identified gap will be reduced thanks to the tailored support offered to individuals by JC with a focus on skills desired in the local job market. The gender dimension will also be taken into account. JC sets up continuous mentorship and support to address the barriers to entering the job market among young people with disabilities. Last but not least, it is meant to advocate for policy-making and workplace changes by promoting inclusive recruitment strategies. The project triggers change in skills development by enabling experience sharing among consortium partners at the EU level through capacity-building workshop and the final conference. The cooperation with the European Rural Youth Observatory will ensure the integration of a disability-inclusive portfolio at the EU level. As evidence collection, assessment, and presentation methods, we propose ex-ante analysis and ex-post evaluation, which will include possible improvement strategies in the project evaluation. Ex-post evaluation will contain elements of skill validation. Finally, project monitoring will be done regularly to ensure the indicators described in the "Theory of Change" are met. The impact measurement will be sustainable by disseminating project findings to policy makers through parliamentary hearing. It will be shared among the consortium networks, partners, employers, and associations. While testing the model on Polish and Slovenian job crafters we will upshift the skills at the local, regional, national and international level.
We will promote and disseminate the project's activities and outcomes nationally and internationally. The EURYO association is spread across 25 European countries, which gives us great potential for increasing the international visibility of the project. The dissemination activities will be structured to engage European, national, and local stakeholders. To achieve this goal, we will develop a dissemination plan at the early stage of the project. It will encompass a range of activities: • Launching a dedicated project website to provide comprehensive information about the project and its deliverables, ensuring accessibility to various stakeholders during and after project implementation. • Establishing a distinct project visual identity by designing a logo and templates to enhance recognition of the project and its outputs. • Leveraging partners' institutional channels, including news sections, newsletters, and social media platforms, to promote and disseminate information about the project and its deliverables to broader audiences. • Providing free access to deliverables such as the Job Crafting toolkit and method, reports, policy briefs, and audio-visual materials (webinars, reels, short movies). • Tailoring project outputs and events to target multiple audiences. The project will aim at policy-makers through delivering policy briefs and organising a European Parliament hearing. The project will also target public employment services, service providers, NGOs and civil society organisations representing youth and individuals with disability through online transnational workshops, a webinar series and the Job Crafting model dissemination. Finally, the project will also target the general public, with an eye on young people by setting up and managing a website, purposively using social media (e.g., TikTok, X, Facebook) and developing a series of short videos. The consortium partners will also utilise various networks and partnerships they are members of (e.g. Inclu(vi)sion, EU Rural Pact, Youth Partnership of the Council of Europe, IZA – Institute of Labor Economics) as well as contacts with the European Commission to share the project's findings. We will also incentivise consortium partners to disseminate the project's products and findings through their individual channels, including social networks, social media platforms, or events. We will prepare all events, communication materials, reports and policy briefs following the accessibility standards. These measures aim to effectively disseminate project activities and findings, maximising their impact, international visibility, and relevance across diverse stakeholder groups.
3 Sustainability and continuation
At the project's final stage, the partners will develop a future cooperation plan to set out the main directions for further cooperation. Outputs of the project, such as the Job Crafting model, reports and policy briefs, will be publicly available online. The Job Crafting model will include templates of documents needed to work with persons with disabilities (e.g. need assessment plan, etc.) that each NGO/civil society organisation can translate and use in their daily work. We will train NGOs/civil society organisations/ PES participating in the transnational capacity-building workshop on how to use the job crafting model. They will transfer this knowledge to other organisations. The Aktywizacja Foundation and the Centerkontura will further implement the Job Crafting model by including it in the catalogue of their statutory activities. EURYO will act as a potential cofounder of further replication of Job Crafting by generalising the results through funding for other projects. In this way, the project will maximise the long-term use, replicability, and sustainability of project activities. The deliverables will be disseminated and promoted during meetings, seminars, and conferences (at various levels - local, regional, national and European), during which project partners will participate long after the project ends. We will put a lot of emphasis on disseminating project results among organisations, researchers, and policy-makers outside the consortium. We will use the Social Innovation Match platform to showcase the Job Crafting model and to gain visibility and recognition of their entities across the European Union. It will also help us find potential partners for European calls for transnational projects and implement Job Crafting on a larger scale. All partners will utilise international partnerships they are members of (e.g. Inclu(vi) Inclusion, EU Rural Pact, Youth Partnership of the Council of Europe, IZA – Institute of Labor Economics) to engage new partners in future projects. Through these networks, the project outputs will be reused and can be made available to build on for other follow-up project activities. The partners have the resources and a strong will to act as above. Lastly, the project activities aim to contribute to national and European level policymaking, to mainstream the disability issues in policymaking, and future revision of relevant legislation. To this end, policy-makers will be invited to the project events and are part of the project's target audience.
