PR.I.M.E. Need Analysis Report - 2025

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December 5, 2025

Summary

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Needs analysis

Results:

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In the last newsletter we asked the contribution of all organisations to participate in an online survey. Together with that, PR.I.M.E. partners did some focus group and video-interviews, as well as a literature review, with the goal to understand better the real needs and difficulties that organisations face when implementing inclusive mobilities for people with intellectual disabilities.

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We are glad to share the results of this work in the ”NEEDS ANALYSIS REPORT“.

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Start working on the handbook:

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With the results of the ‘Needs Analysis’, PR.I.M.E. partners could start working on the content for the HANDBOOK with a more targeted view of the real difficulties and needs faced by organisations.

The HANDBOOK will be split in four main chapters:

1. Project application and management;

2. Before mobility;

3. During mobility;

4. After mobility.

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Starting in January 2024, partners did several online meetings to collect, analyse, test and create tools, activities and tips to support project staff when implementing inclusive mobilities. It is a work in progress that will be ready in the end of the project in pdf format and digitalised in the e-platform of PR.I.M.E.

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Online trainings:

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One of the aims of PR.I.M.E. project is to develop competences in project staff, starting from the partnership. It is programmed within the project to have some online trainings sharing the expertise of some partners: 3 on digital, 2 on easy-to-read, and 5 connected with different arguments within all the project cycle.

According to the partners’ needs, during all 2024 were developed 3 Online Trainings about:

- Digital Tools for Project Management, led by CARDET, the technical partner;

- Gamification, led by CARDET, that gave an introduction on how to use gamification in educational contexts, and was a starting point for the creation of the OER2 – an open educational resource in gamified approach that will support the learning process of the participants with intellectual disabilities in mobility projects;

- Easy-to-read, the first online training about this argument, led by the Polish and the Lithuanian partner, experts in this field.

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All training material will be available freely in the PR.I.M.E. e-platform in the end of the project. Until then, the full recording of the trainings is available in the PR.I.M.E Youtube Channel.

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Documents in easy-to-read:

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The importance of creating documents that are fully understood by participants with intellectual disabilities is clear for PR.I.M.E. partners. That is why, after the online training about easy-to-read, and following the Guidelines of Inclusion Europe, partners are creating some documents to support the preparation and implementation of mobility projects for participants with intellectual disabilities.

Besides, PR.I.M.E. is creating some support documents for the understanding of official documents, starting with the Volunteering Agreement and the Learning Agreement in European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ programmes.

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Project meeting in Greece:

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On the 10th and 11th October 2024, PR.I.M.E. partners got together in Athens, hosted by ESTIA, for the mid-term meeting for project coordination. It was a great opportunity to check on the project outputs’ status, make some decisions together and establish the next steps.

Furthermore, it was an additional opportunity to share some expertise about easy-to-read and make some practical exercises.

Between meetings and informal moments, the partnership got reinforced and ESTIA was a great host, organising also a visit to a coffee shop managed by people with disabilities.

This meeting gave the opportunity to do a video shared during the Erasmus Days 2024, that you can see in the YouTube channel.

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Inclusive mobilities of partners:

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During 2024, PR.I.M.E. Partners continued implementing some parallel mobility projects during which some tools and activities were tested.

The Italian partner sent some VET trainees to Malta and Lithuania, to develop their internships. The collaboration between Italy, Lithuania and Poland within the European Solidarity Corps saw some volunteers with intellectual disabilities involved, adding also Spain as destination.

Resulting from the European network (and PR.I.M.E.’s Associated Partner) Caravan2000 International Federation, the Italian, the Lithuanian, the Polish and the Greek Partner are involved in a KA2 ADU project named ‘GINA – Green Inclusive Academy’, that aims to develop competences in people with disabilities about sustainability. During 2024, there were two international meetings, in Poland (April) and Germany (October), that saw involved some participants with intellectual disabilities.

The PR.I.M.E. project develops tools to support on the implementation of mobility projects for people with intellectual disabilities, with the focus on European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus+ (ADU, VET and YOUTH), but the transversality of these can be applied to different kinds of mobilities. That is why the Lithuanian partner also used some of the tools and tips in a NordPlus Adult project by sending some participants to Estonia and Latvia to develop creative abilities.

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