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Mutual learning

Peer Reviews and other Mutual Learning Processes are important tools for raising awareness and enhancing the capacity of stakeholders at all levels in the areas of employment social affairs and inclusion.

In this frame, five national capacity-building events and one European event on the transition from institutional to community-based care and independent living are being organised between December 2018 and June 2019 in different Member States to enhance mutual learning by:

  • Improving the understanding of the European Commission and other stakeholders of the progress towards deinstitutionalisation and the main challenges;
  • Identifying and exchanging information on practical examples on implementing the Common European Guidelines on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care, using ESIF and other EU funding;
  • Improving the capacity at local, regional and national level to develop measures supporting the transition from institutional to community-based care, using EU funding instruments; and
  • Supporting the capacity of people with support needs, especially those that are most marginalised, to take part in designing support and services in the community.

The support service for Mutual Learning events in the fields of employment, social affairs and inclusion is provided by ICF on behalf of the European Commission. For any questions on the capacity-building events on the transition from institutional to community-based care and independent living, please contact EMPL-F1-UNIT@ec.europa.eu.

The capacity-building events in detail

Seminar on 'Moving towards independent living and community-based care – EU funding instruments to support the development of community-based services for homeless people', 6th December 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

  • To learn more about this event and to download the background paper, executive summary, practice fiches and full report, please visit the event page.
  • Documents are available in DE and EN.

 

Seminar on 'Moving towards independent living and community-based care - EU funding instruments to support the development of community-based services for children without adequate parental care’, 14th March 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia.

  • Download practice fiches, executive summary and the thematic paper on the event page.
  • Documents are available in HR and EN.

 

Seminar 'Moving towards independent living and community-based care - EU funding instruments to support the development of community-based services for adults and children with intellectual disabilities, 11th April 2019 in Bucharest, Romania.

  • The executive summary, thematic paper and practice fiches can all be downloaded from the event page.
  • Documents are available in RO and EN.

 

Seminar “Moving towards independent living and community-based care - EU funding instruments to support the development of community-based services for persons with disabilities: personal assistance and personal budgets”, 21st May in Bratislava, Slovakia.

  • The executive summary, thematic paper and practice fiches are all available on the event page.
  • Documents are availabe in SK and EN.

 

Conference in cooperation with the ESF Thematic Network Inclusion and the Mutual Learning Programme in the Field of Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion “Moving towards independent living and community-based care - EU funding instruments to support the development of community-based services”, 17th June 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.