DiversHUBility Tampere Learning Activity

“Access to work: Training for practictioners supporting students with disabilities”

Online Learning Activity (LA) organized by the RESET team at Tampere University

March 7-8 2024
Exploration of common ground with the other European Partners to contrast the stigma of disability within a long-term perspective
Key themes of the LA: vulnerability, poverty, and work

With contributions by:

Leena Normia-Ahlsten, Project Manager Finnish Program of Sustainable Growth at The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Kaija Räy, Specialist in Employment Service System and Competence at Vates Foundation
Pia Vaajakallio Working Life Expert, Project Coordinator and Peppi Santaniemi, Vamlas Communicatons Coordinator Path to a Diverse Working Life at Vamlas Foundation

Highlights:

Strong connection, scientifically demonstrated, between disability and poverty among young people
Work, as a motor in the civil society, is key for counteracting stigmatization by forging an equitable and sustainable society

Outcomes of the LA:

Steps toward the building of shared expertise on the development of activities
Co-construction of resources for participatory conceptualizations and modelling that will feed in the DiversHUBility Toolkit
Co-envisioning of a European Hub which could respond to some among the most acute challenges of sustainable inclusion of diversly able professionals in the working life
Discussions on experiences of obstacles but also of opportunities among the Partners for the development of competences that diverse abilities can be fuitfully put into use in the working life