Methodology  

SIM aims to create synergies between two disciplines together, in order to co-create innovations solutions that can help social’s professionals to face in a new way the problems that affect disabled people. In the project experts from two different disciplines (social marketing and social services) were willing to share their knowledge, skills and different perspectives to find innovative training solutions. The two participating disability organizations proposed real social challenges to the two universities to be resolved by using the social marketing techniques. The social theoretical framework is based on the “quality of life model” and “individualized support model” (social indicators). 

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Social Workers

Professionals of the social sector are the main target of the project. Since they work on the field on a daily basis, they are the ones that better know the issues that have to be addressed. Moreover, they are the ones that can better apply and value the efficacy of the innovative instruments developed by the project.

 

Midstream level: Social Educators. Professionals working the competence improvement of disabled people such as occupational therapists, psychologists, social workers, employment mediators, caregivers.

 

Upstream level (strategic level). Training supervisors of the above professionals, training and education programme developers, educational decision-takers. The project worked with a range of multi-professional experts. The three different intellectual Outputs  were implemented by experts on VET, researchers from universities and professionals in the field of elderly and disability.

 

NARHU and APCC were in charge to involve the social educators/professionals working in their organizations. In addition, NARHU involved also those professionals that belong to the organizations as members. Universities (USi and UV) involved  social educators and  professionals thanks to the associated partners such as IVASS and  ESMA. 

 

Project objectives

• To develop an innovative and useful social inclusion marketing training materials for social educators and training decision-takers.
• To develop and validate a new training methodology: SIM learning case study.
• To develop and validate a new SIM pedagogical strategy.
• To improve the competences of social services workforce in social inclusion marketing.
• To implement social marketing methodologies and techniques in social sector organizations.
• To improve the synergies between social marketing field and social services.
• To develop pedagogical materials to promote the transparency of the qualifications the in European Union.
• To show the social community good practices and examples of how to adapt marketing techniques and strategies into the social sector.
• To explore the options to integrate social marketing in the curricula of UV and other European Universities.

 

 

Project partners from four European countries – Bulgaria, Switzerland , Spain and Portugal- worked together to exchange and analyse knowledge about new social marketing & social inclusion models to combine mixed-method approaches to address the problems of professionals faces in the labour area of disability. They met regularly in order to discuss the project development, check the results and define the next steps to take.   “Social Inclusion Marketing” is about building sustainable and effective solutions for disabled people.