Building Bridges - between Y esterday & Tomorrow May 13th to 15th 2014 Stockholm

Building Bridges - between Yesterday &Tomorrow

May 13th to 15th 2014Stockholm

From education to work - disability policy and practical good examples from the Nordic

countriesMaarit Aalto

[email protected] Centre for Welfare and Social Issues- NVC

Nordic Council of MinistersNordic Council of Ministers is the Nordic governments’ official co-operation forum.

The Ministers for Co-operation and selected parliamentarians lead Nordic co-operation.

Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social IssuesNordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues (NVC) is one of the Institutes under Nordic Council of Ministers and work in the field of Social and Welfare issues.How we work• Knowledge: We gather and compare experiences from the Nordic

countries within the area of welfare policy.• Development: We spread experience and best practice through our

activities and networks.• Dialogue: We create dialogue between politicians, researchers,

professionals and practitioners.

My presentation

• Disability policy in the Nordic countries

• Good examples in the Universities

• Nordic Recommendations

• Interviews with employers

Strategies of disability policies in the NVC-project

• A strategy for Implementation of Disability Policy, 2011-2016 (Sweden)

• Job Strategy for Persons with Disabilities 2011-2013 (Norway have chosen to include the policy to different sectors. The Job Strategy is one example)

• A strong basis for Inclusion and Equality 2010-2015 (Finland)

• Plan of Action of Disability Persons Affairs 2012-2014 (Iceland)

• The Disability political Action plan 2013 - A Society for all (Denmark)

Disability Policy in the Nordic CountriesThree basis for Disability Policy

• The Nordic Welfare Model

• The Principle of Sector Responsibility • UN Convention on Rights of Persons with

Disability

Disability Policy in the Nordic Countries

Contents

a)Aims and starting points

b) Structure - Policy fields and goals

Implementation

Implementation- The importance of Research- Cooperation between actors- Collect and distributions of knowledge and information- Support efforts

Evaluation

- Continuity in the evaluation

- Intern and extern evaluation

- Theme-evaluation

The figure shows that the part of persons with adaptation needs workopportunities increase with higher education (NTNU, 2008, Norway)Green= all University and High schools at the right hand side

Yellow= Persons with disability

81,3 %

88,4 %92,2 %

60,3 %

77,3 %

49,5 %

63,6 %64,0 %

32,5 %

45,3 %

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20,0 %

30,0 %

40,0 %

50,0 %

60,0 %

70,0 %

80,0 %

90,0 %

100,0 %

I alt Ungdomsskolenivå Videregående nivå Univ. og høyskolenivå (1-4 år)

Univ.og høyskolenivå(over 4 år)

Sysselsatte i alt

Sysselsatte med funksjonsnedsettelser

From the year 1995 to 2013 the total number of students at the University of Iceland has increased from 5692 to 14009 students but during the same period the number of students with disabilities has increased considerably more (Figure Maria Dóra Björnsdóttir director of Student Counselling and Career Centre at University of

Iceland)

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Figure 1. Students receiving special assistance at the University of Iceland from 1995 to 2013

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UA-project (Education and Work)-some good examples

Norway: Studies with support (Studier med Stötte-SMS) Jobseminar - NTNU

Finland: University of Turku -ESOK-project and Åbo Academy

Sweden: To be a student- Hanna Edman

Iceland: University of Iceland

Denmark: University of Aarhus ”Teaching Teachers”

Nordic Recommendations to Universities and High school of transition from Education to Employment for students with

disability

1. Early Planning

2. A closer cooperation

3. Clarified work practise

4. Competence development and awareness raising

Interviews with employers

• Employers both from the public and from the private sector

• Employers from big and small companies

Director Pål Wibe of Nille Company in Norway offer jobs….

…in Norway and Sweden

Thank You

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