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The overall objective is to help people suffering from reading and learning difficulties and to prevent their exclusion. The aim is also to create guidance support measures for the target group which take into account the people at risk and the risk factors. The guidance measures eventually help the target group to have access to the labour market or to further training.The project aims to find different organisational models, alternative implementation methods and promote their better functioning in municipalities. The aim is to develop guidance and support services designed for young and adult people with learning difficulties. Dyslexia forms a real problem which is not well known and there are not enough knowledge on how to treat the problem especially among people who have left comprehensive school. Dyslexia will never improve and the person suffering from this problem needs help throughout his/her life. Therefore the target group is very important. One of the strong points of the project is that the problem will be made known throughout the country. The project has a strong preventive approach because its intention is to ensure that also people with dyslexia will be able to train themselves, obtain a profession, enter the labour market and succeed in working life. Without this kind of support there is a great risk that these people will become excluded because they find studies difficult and tend to drop out of training. The project refers to a study which shows that many juvenile delinquents, alcoholics, drug abusers and people with mental problems suffer from learning difficulties more frequently than people on average.

Objective

The project aims to find different organisational models, alternative implementation methods and promote their better functioning in municipalities. The aim is to develop guidance and support services designed for young and adult people with learning difficulties.The projects purpose is to create a nation-wide comprehensive support, expert and service network for the target group. Local projects and networks will be activated in municipalities by increasing awareness and by bringing concretely forth what kind of instruments and models will be needed in order to help the target group. Project work will be carried out in schools, libraries, training places, parishes, maternity centres, associations involved with dyslexia as well as in social and employment offices. The method to reach out for the mentioned actors is to arrange a "Workshop" in a each municipality in Finland, which would help to enhance the networking of the actors. Special attention will be paid to the prevention of problems arising from dyslexia. Moreover, project’s basic assumption is that dyslexia forms a high risk factor in increasing exclusion.

Innovation

Nature of the experimental activities to be implemented	Rating
Guidance, counselling	**
Training	**
Training on work place	*
Work placement	*
Employment aids (+ for self-employment)	*
Integrated measures (pathway to integration)	***
Employment creation and support	*
Training of teachers, trainers and staff	**
Improvement of employment services, Recruitment structures	**
Anticipation of technical changes	*
Work organisation, improvement of access to work places	*
Guidance and social services	**
Awareness raising, information, publicity	****
Studies and analysis of discrimination features	**

Type of innovation	Rating
Process-oriented	****
Goal-oriented	**
Context oriented	***

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Lukibussi -project will collect regional good practicies which involves arranging workshops with actors, and arranging education which is based on information dissemination agenda. We started parallell action 1 to the action 3 (mainstreaming). The most innovative part involves enhancing the multidisciplinary, holistis approach, into dealing with people with learning difficulties by authorities and NGOs.

Budget Action 2

500 000 – 1 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Assistance to persons	M	F
Unemployed	23.0%	11.0%
Employed	23.0%	10.0%
Others (without status, social beneficiaries...)	23.0%	10.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Migrants, ethnic minorities, …	0.0%	0.0%
Asylum seekers	0.0%	0.0%
Population not migrant and not asylum seeker	50.0%	50.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Physical Impairment	0.0%	0.0%
Mental Impairment	30.0%	20.0%
Mental Illness	0.0%	0.0%
Population not suffering from a disability	30.0%	20.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Substance abusers	0.0%	0.0%
Homeless	0.0%	0.0%
(Ex-)prisoners	23.0%	11.0%
Other discriminated (religion, sexual orientation)	23.0%	10.0%
Without such specific discriminations	23.0%	10.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
< 25 year	17.0%	17.0%
25 - 50 year	17.0%	17.0%
> 50 year	16.0%	16.0%
	100.0%

Assistance to structures and systems and accompanying measures	Rating
Asylum	**
Gender discrimination	***
Support to entrepreneurship	**
Discrimination and inequality in employment	***
Disabilities	**
Other discriminations	***
Low qualification	****
Unemployment	***

Promoting individual empowerment

Empowerment

With beneficiaries

Participation

Developing collective responsibility and capacity for action

Participation in the project design

Participation in running and evaluating activities

Changing attitudes and behavior of key actors

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20-30% of population have learning difficulties. We call them “diverse learners”. Some people learn new things in a different way, because their brain processes information in a different way. Only part of persons with learning difficulties has a neurological reason for the problems and a special diagnosis like ADHD, Asperger, autism, dyslexia etc. Learning difficulties can be manifested as problems in writing or reading, arithmetic, attentional or motoric skills or visuo-spatial orientation. Learning difficulties are not necessarily connected with the IQ. They are a person’s characteristic for a life time and are presumably inheritable. When these difficulties are not attended they are connected often to the fact that these people have low self-confidence. Thus, we encourge people with learning difficulties to step forward and start a change process within themselves. Second, we enhance awareness among actors in the municipalities and higher levels of their organisations to notice and take action inorder to improve the participation possibilities of people who have learning problems. This work is done in the regional and local Workshops among actors and NGO´s. In the decision making level we offer information about the phonomenon of learning difficulties in the role of social exclusion.

Between national partners

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As a project we enhance our partner organisations inclusive strategies in thier day to day workavtivities. To acknowledge and recognise those citisens who have learning difficulties would be one of the challanges of our partner organisations. In addition, we engourage the participation of the individuals with learning difficulties. In short, we have also included preventive approach to discussions with the partners.

Transnationality

Linguistic skills

English
suomi

Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

71.0%

Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Transnational Co-operation Agreement	DPs involved
1804 Empower Professionals	AT 1A-16/109 NL 2001/EQE/0008 PT 2001-055

Background

Involvment in previous EU programmes

Two and more partners involved in A&E

Networking

Interest in networking

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- to create working, multidisciplinary networks in every community
- to increase knowledge about learning difficulties
- to increase knowledge about existing service, support and good practices
- to collect and share good, working models and practices
- to collect success stories

Events

Last update: 15-05-2002 Top

- basic knowledge of learning difficulties
- good working models and practices

Products

N.C.

National Partners

Partner	To be contacted for
The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities	Co-ordination of experimental activities Design of the project DP managing organisation Monitoring, data collection Transnational partnership
Diverse Learners' Association
Diverse Learners' Association in Helsinki
Finnish Broadcasting Company
Finnish Library Association
National Board of Education
National Church House
Niilo Mäki Institute
Rehabilitation Foundation	Evaluation
The Finnish Association of Adult Education Centres
Tunturi Lapin Oppiva project

Agreement Summary

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The transnational co-operation network, called Empower Professionals, aims to import , export and adopt new approaches in learning strategies and methods, motivation techniques, training programmes and existing best practices, to exchange those developments and to mainstream.The common interest is people with learning difficulties of all age. especially to prevent students dropping out from secondary vocational education.The network members are AQUA-Austria, ENE-Portugal, Young Professionals-Netherlands and Lukibussi-Finland.

Toinen Linja 14
FIN-00530 Helsinki

The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities

Tel:+358 9 771 20 25
Fax:+358 9 771 24 45
Email:riitta.salin@kuntaliitto.fi


Responsibility in the DP:	Co-ordination of experimental activities Design of the project DP managing organisation Monitoring, data collection Transnational partnership
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Salin	Riitta Ms.	+358 9 771 20 25	riitta.salin@kuntaliitto.fi	All matters related to administration of the project

Diverse Learners' Association

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	information dissemination

Diverse Learners' Association in Helsinki

(HERO)
xx
xx xx

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
XX	xx	xx	xx	xx

Finnish Broadcasting Company

xx
xx Helsinki

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Enterprise
Legal status:	Private
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	xx

Finnish Library Association

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	xx

Hakaniemenkatu 2 A
FIN-00530 Helsinki

National Board of Education

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Public authority (national, regional, local)
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	xx

National Church House

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	xx

Niilo Mäki Institute

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	xx

Rehabilitation Foundation

xx
x xx

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:	Evaluation
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	xx

The Finnish Association of Adult Education Centres

(KTOL)
xx
xx xx

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	xx

Tunturi Lapin Oppiva project

Tel:xx
Fax:xx
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Other
Legal status:	Non-profit private organisation (including NGO...)
Size:	Staff < 10
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
xx	xx	xx	xx	xx

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LUKIBUSSI

Rationale

Lukikysymys on todellinen ongelma, jota ei tunneta eikä sitä osata hoitaa varsinkaan perusopetuksen jälkeisessä koulutuksessa. Lukihäiriö ei parane koskaan, vaan lukihäiriöstä kärsivä henkilö tarvitsee tukea läpi elämänsä. Hankkeen kohderyhmä on siksi hyvin tärkeä. Hankkeen vahvuutena on myös lukihäiriöongelman valtakunnallistaminen. Hanke on vahvasti ennaltaehkäisevä, koska sen tarkoituksena on varmistaa, että myös henkilöt, joilla on lukihäiriö, pystyvät kouluttautumaan ja saamaan itselleen ammatin ja työllistymään sekä menestymään työelämässä. Mikäli näin ei ole, on suuri vaara, että henkilöt syrjäytyvät, koska opinnot tuntuvat vaikeilta ja jäävät kesken. Hakemuksessa on viitattu tutkimuksiin, joiden mukaan nuorisorikollisissa, alkoholisteissa, huumeiden käyttäjissä ja mielenterveysongelmista kärsivissä on keskimääräistä enemmän oppimisvaikeuksisia.

Objective

Projektissa luodaan valtakunnan kattava toimintamalli erilaisen oppijan huomioimiseksi. Keskeisenä tavoitteena on luki- ja oppimishäiriöisten auttaminen ja syrjäytymisen ennaltaehkäisy, riskiryhmien ja -tekijöiden sekä kohderyhmän ohjaavat tukitoimet työelämään tai jatkokoulutukseen. Projektin yleisenä tavoitteena on luoda valtakunnallisesti kattava tuki-, asiantuntija- ja palveluverkosto erilaisille oppijoille. Lukibussi tähtää omien paikallisten hankkeiden aloittamiseen ja verkoston aktivoimiseen tuomalla kunnissa konkreettisesti esille, mitä välineitä ja malleja on käytössä erilaisen oppijan huomioimiseksi. Projektityötä tehdään kouluissa, kirjastoissa, kansalais- ja työväenopistoissa, seurakunnissa, neuvoloissa, lukiyhdistyksissä ja sosiaali- ja työvoimatoimistoissa. Projektissa kiinnitetään erityistä huomiota lukivaikeuksista aiheutuvien ongelmien ennaltaehkäisyyn. Yhtenä yleistavoitteena onkin nostaa esille, että puuttumattomana lukivaikeus voi olla suuri syrjäytymistä aiheuttava tekijä. Lukibussi-projektin kautta selvitetään erilaisia organisointimalleja, toteutusvaihtoehtoja ja niiden toimivuutta kunnissa. Tarkoituksena on kehittää ja kokeilla ammatillisessa koulutuksessa olevien nuorten ja aikuisten opiskelijoiden ohjaus- ja tukipalveluja.