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Learning formats
The Programmes shall offer flexible and accessible learning formats to enable reaching out to large target groups, thus increasing the integration of people with fewer opportunities in education and training, youth, sport and solidarity activities.
Support to participants with fewer opportunities
Mechanisms to adequately prepare and support participants with fewer opportunities before, during and after their participation within the Programmes, such as preparatory visits, linguistic support, reinforced mentorship and coaching, shall be available and duly financed.
Support to organisations
Mechanisms shall be put in place to: (a) support organisations in making inclusion a reality, particularly in terms of organisational development, accessibility and the interaction with participants with fewer opportunities before, during and after the project. This can take the form of support activities for staff dealing specifically with inclusion and diversity in organisations, such as training and thematic networking opportunities, to work together to support people with fewer opportunities and to ensure inclusive selection procedures; (b) support organisations in their key role to reach out and raise awareness among potential participants with fewer opportunities on the various opportunities and support mechanisms that the Programmes offer them.
Financial support
1. The Programmes shall provide adequate levels of financial support to participants with fewer opportunities, contributing to removing the barriers that prevent them to participate in Programme’s activities on equal footing to their peers. This includes taking into consideration the most appropriate mechanisms for granting such support. 2. The Programmes shall make available reinforced financial support for organisations working with participants with fewer opportunities, recognising the additional efforts put in place to effectively involve these target groups in their project activities.
Selection process
Priority may be given in the grant awarding process to quality projects that actively address the inclusion and involvement of participants with fewer opportunities.
User-friendliness of programme’s documents
The Programmes shall ensure that the application and reference documents are user-friendly and accessible and available in different languages. Those documents shall have a clear structure and use simple language in order to support the needs of people with fewer opportunities.
Training activities
Funding may be provided under the Programmes to offer training activities aimed at inclusion of people with fewer opportunities for, inter alia, experts, practitioners, staff of the organisations and participants. These training activities shall be aimed at creating opportunities for the exchange of best practices, building competences and for encouraging innovative ideas regarding inclusion measures.
Supportive approach
The Programmes shall provide qualitative support for inclusion measures through the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps national agencies and the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), as well as through structures such as Support, Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities (SALTO) Inclusion and Diversity.
Communication activities
Information and awareness-raising about the opportunities offered by the Programmes and the inclusion support mechanisms may have to be conveyed and adapted to their national and sector-specific context for each category of participants with fewer opportunities. To achieve this, implementing organisations are encouraged to provide suitable and accessible information material, establish different outreach and information channels, share best practices, and proactively target and contact organisations active in the fields of inclusion and diversity. These tasks shall be carried out in particular by the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps national agencies. To support the implementation of these tasks, inclusion and diversity officers shall be appointed in the national agencies.
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