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 

4 target groups

The NAs and SALTO Resource Centres in the SPI work on these 4 strands:

• (Organisations working with) young people with health issues and diverse abilities (DE, LV, EE, FR, IS, HU, PL, FI, SK , DK + BE-FL, RO)
• (Organisations working with) young people in NEET situation (LV, EE, CZ, AT, SE, BE-FL, FR, PT, IT, FI, ES + DE, RO)
• (Organisations working with) young people from rural areas (IE, PL, RO, FI, LV, IT, FR, EE + CY)
• (Organisations working with) young people from diverse cultural backgrounds i.e. migrants, refugees (DE, FR, AT, CZ, BE-FL, FI... in cooperation with NAs hosting activities about this topic)

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 E+ Youth National Agencies are actively involved: Austria, Belgium-FL, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, SALTO ESC,  - Coordination: SALTO Inclusion & Diversity.