NA Strategic Partnership for Inclusion

• Discover Engage in Inclusion! A guide to disability-inclusive projects (2021)
• View the recordings of the inSPIire Week for Inclusion (June 2021)
• Download the Cookbook for Inclusion for NAs (pdf)
• Have a look at inspirational inclusion project videos (different project types, different target groups)
• Have a look at the SPI achievements (ppt, June 2018), impact report (pdf, January 2018) and update (pdf, October 2018)

A strategic approach​

The consortium of NAs developed a strategic approach to reach out and involve 4 target groups that are underrepresented in Erasmus+ and Solidarity Corps in the different countries. In subgroups, they take the following steps:

1. mapping new organisations & needs analysis
2. motivation, information & capacity building
3. partnership building & networking
4. support for international mobility as part of their inclusion work
5. mapping existing resources & tools or creating new ones
6. monitoring impact & documenting the tested approaches 

Target groups

The NAs in SPI reach out specifically to organisations working with the following youngsters:

• Young people experiencing barriers because of disabilities and/or health issues (AT, BE-FL, CH, DE, DK, EE, EL, FI, FR, HR, IS, LT, LV, MK, PL, PT, RO, SK).
• Young people in a NEET situation (AT, BE-FL, BE-DE, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, IT, LV, NL, PT, RO, SE).
• Young people living in rural areas (EE, FI, EL, IE, IT, LT, LV, MK, RO)
• Young people facing barriers in a post-migration society (AT, BE-FL, CH, DE, EE, EL, ES, FI, LV, PL).

Interim results (August 2019)*

• The SPI reached out to 2078 NEW inclusion organisations
• 623 of those (=30% vs 28% in 2018) responded positively/showed interest
• 810 inclusion workers of those 'interested organisations' (=130% vs 103% in 2018) participated in a national SPI activity - some NAs worked with umbrella organisations who sent more than one inclusion worker
• 275 inclusion workers of those 'interested organisations' (=44% vs 33% in 2018) participated in an international SPI activity
• In August 2019, these inclusion workers/organisations organised 68 E+ projects (43 in 2018) as a result of SPI, including appr. 745 young people with fewer opportunities (654 in 2018) - but we expect more at the next deadline

Both the national and international SPI activities events significantly contributed to participants' knowledge of and motivation to organise international youth projects (on a scale of 0 to 5).**

• National event: knowledge before = avg 2.76 > after = avg 3.77 out of 5
• National event: motivation before = avg 3.25 > after = avg 4.14 out of 5
• International event: knowledge before = avg 2.40 > after = avg 3.86 out of 5
• International event: motivation before = avg 3.49 > after = avg 4.35 out of 5

*Statistics extrapolated from 12 out of 20 monitoring reports.
**Evaluation based on 17 national and 3 international SPI events.

Practical tools for inclusion

• The SPI Disability strand developed Engage in Inclusion, a disability-inclusive guidefor youth organisations who want to organise mobility projects involving young people with disabilities - yes it is possible! 
• In 2021, the SPI Harvesting Conference was turned into an online 'inSPIre week' addressing different inclusion topic. All sessions were recorded and are available online.
• Based on the SPI cooperation, SALTO I&D developed a Cookbook for Inclusion for National Agencies to reach out to more young people with fewer opportunities and have better quality inclusive projects.
• Looking for good inclusion practices? The SPI colleagues created/collected a number of inspirational project videos about what an inclusive youth project looks like and what participants get out of it.

Involvement

The following National Agencies are actively involved in SPI: Austria, Belgium-FL, Belgium-DE, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The SPI is coordinated by SALTO Inclusion & Diversity.