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Social and Labour Integration of the Disabled

PROGETTO SLID – prima parte

REPORT OF STRESS CONDITION OF DISABLED WORKERS

The concept

Social inclusion of disabled and the achievement of equal opportunities of disadvantaged categories is a central subject in strategies and policies of states.

Having the social inclusion of disabled as main and holistic objective, their labour insertion is one of the step and one of the mean to join it; together with the other elements that identify a fully social inclusion (e.g. education, rehabilitation, housing, etc.), the job opportunities represent for disabled one of the main obstacles and, much probably, the first challenge for those involved in inclusion policies.

In the definition of occupation strategies and of social inclusion processes of disabled, countries have to consider the opportunities of collaboration and cooperation first of all as an occasion of learning and exchange, as well as a possibility for defining wide-ranging policies, more able to intervene in combating social exclusion and discrimination.

The Objectives

The Overall Objective of SLID project is to impact upon improvement of quality of life of persons with disabilities in target Adriatic territories through development of an effective, innovative and integrated cross-border path of interventions for their social and labour integration.

The purpose is to increase the capacities of SLID target territories/communities to respond to the needs of persons with disabilities and creation of sustainable cooperation network paths for social and labour integration as an innovative concept of intervention SLID will offer for consideration for transfer and replication in wider Adriatic basin.

The Specific Objectives of SLID have been designed to provide solutions to problems that have been identified as key areas for removal of obstacles in order for the accessibility of social and labour integration of the disabled to be improved.

1. To raise public awareness and stimulate information dissemination and mainstreaming about issues related
to people with disabilities and the social model of intervention in order to create the most favourable conditions to their full integration.

2. To build, reinforce and sustain the innovative net- working and cooperation among public bodies and private
actors; service providers, disability associations and employers.

3. To design, promote and sustain a Lifelong Learning System Initiatives, VET (Vocational Education Training),
able to facilitate the access of the disabled to VET and labour opportunities, thus increasing their employability
and competitiveness in the open labour market.

4. To analyse, verify and improve the employability conditions of the disabled in the target Adriatic territories.

5. To stimulate and facilitate the exchange of technical, scientific and managerial expertise among the stakeholders relevant to social and labour integration of the disabled in Adriatic territories.

The WP6

WP6 – Development of Innovative Good Practices of Social and Labour Inclusion

WP6 represents experimental component of the project, where project beneficiaries are provided with an opportunity to test the new initiatives/solutions and actions foreseen to trigger replication of similar actions and to increase positive impact on target groups. […]

The aim of the WP is to test what works and what does not work, to achieve and demonstrate concrete and pragmatic
application of insertion models, potentially replicate and transfer as good practice for social and labour insertion of people with disabilities.

In particular Iselqui, with its devices, is involved in the Act 6.4 – ICT application “Mobile Care Laboratory (Italy)

Target groups

Beneficiaries are disabled people (physical, psycho and/or sensorial), for whom the access to the equal opportunities in terms of education, training and work are reduced.

Target group is made of actors, from public and private field,who will be influenced or who will influence the project realization (Local Authorities, Local Health System, Local and Sectoral Development Agencies, Organisation of the Civic Society, Universities and research Centres, Trade Unions and Employers’ Associations and Local Entrepreneurial System.

SLID is also intended to influence the improvement of capacities of target communities to respond to the needs of persons with disabilities through provision of equal access to rights and opportunities.

It is also expected to produce Integrated SLID Recommended Paths for Social and Labour Integration of the Disabled for future reference and potential replication in wider Adriatic basin.

Hence, SLID partnerships have been carefully balanced between local and regional governments (3), public institutions (3), private non-profit (4), and profit organizations (1) in order to achieve greater impact on how intersector, bottom-up and cross-border cooperation is fostered and facilitated, and sustainability of the project secured.

Programme components

SLID is organized in 7 complementary and cross-cutting Work Packages (WP) that will be implemented over the period of 30 months.

Project Interventions will focus on following programmatic areas: public awareness, education and employability of persons with disabilities; empowerment of stakeholders; user-friendly and accessible crossborder knowledge base and networks, and recommended paths of interventions for future reference.

Respecting CBC principles agreed upon during joint project preparation initiated by DES and Split-Dalmatia County, a joint project management and coordination, staffing and financing will be secured.

SLID implementation will be directed, supported and supervised by the LB (Split-Dalmatia County) and two committees: the Management Committee (MC) and the Scientific Committee (SC).

Description

ISE will implement a pilot related to development of the BSN services, called Mobile Care Laboratory. A simple noninvasive Body Sensor Network will monitor the physical conditions of the disabled workers.

The device will be tested on a group of 10 disabled workers who will be provided with monitoring device bracelets with sensors and smart phones.

Bracelets will be distributed to a group of selected workers in Eastern Adriatic countries who live and in the areas where mobile networks allow reliable communication body sensors network database. Once the trail period is completed, an evaluation of the potential for future utilization of ICT monitoring and controlling will be produced and presented at final SLID CBC conference.

The Device

The project was strengthen by the use of an ICT instrument for disadvantaged people monitoring.

Iselqui provided the ‘wearable-devices’, developing a range of devices (Mobile Care Systems, http://www.mocas.it)
characterized by a single point of multi-signal measurement (activity and fall detection, heart rate, temperature,
galvanic skin response).

Data elaboration and alarm logic are stored in a measurement device that communicates with a personal mobile hub (a mobile phone or Palm or PC) via Bluetooth. Wearable sensor is a small bracelet, easy to wear and to use. In particular, its simpler configuration can be integrated in a watch.

The research and development of Mobile Care Systems devices is partially financed by a national program (598/94 law, Regione Marche), and MoCaLab is used by CEFRIEL (Politecnico di Milano) and Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian Health Institute) as a platform for measuring biological parameters.

The monitoring system that SLID used is based on Mobile Care Systems (MoCaS, www.mocas.it) architecture. MoCaS devices have been developed on the basis of a stable and common technology. MoCaS are a family of devices characterized by a single point of multi-signal measurement (activity and fall detection, heart rate, temperature, galvanic skin response,…).

MoCaS

MoCaS is an intelligent device that works like a complete Body Sensor Network, characterized by a single point of multi signal measurement (activity detection, heart rate, temperature, galvanic skin response,…). BSN are networks of wireless devices used for biological signals monitoring. All signals are collected by a Personal Mobile Hub (PMH), able to elaborate data and transmit them, on the basis of a predefined protocol. The “traditional” approach of BSN is based on “dumb sensors” only able to collect digital signal that are then elaborated on a PMH.

PMH can be implemented using mobile phones, palms or custom elaboration units. Data collected and elaborated by PMH are finally sent to a call center. MoCaS architecture is innovative respect to traditional BSN networks: it is based on the concept of an intelligent device.

PROGETTO SLID – fine prima parte