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ERIC Number: ED481364
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 16
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-92-894-2177-0
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Social and Occupational Integration of Disadvantaged People. Leonardo da Vinci Good Practices Series.
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education and Culture.
This document profiles nine European programs that exemplify good practice in social and occupational integration of disadvantaged people. The programs profiled are as follows: (1) Restaurant Venezia (a CD-ROM program to improve the reading and writing skills of young people in Luxembourg who have learning difficulties); (2) an integrated laboratory for teaching young people in Italy to read and write; (3) European Trainers against Exclusion (a project to facilitate the labor market integration of victims of occupational and social exclusion); (4) a program that champions the cause of people with disabilities in Greece, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and tries to find solutions to their employment problems; (5) a comparison of innovative models of vocational guidance for young disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Finland; (6) KeyNet (a project to give a second chance to unemployed people in areas of high unemployment in Germany, Greece, Sweden, and the United Kingdom through development of key skills); (7) Entrance (a program to improve prisoners' social and occupational skills); (8) a program to improve the employability of prisoners in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom; and (9) Sociodroga (a program providing continuous training to social workers and others responsible for education and training in the field of drug addiction). (MN)
For full text: http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/leonardo/new/leonardo2/broc_bp/bon_prat6_en.pdf.
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education and Culture.
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