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PR.I.M.E. project: promoting inclusive Erasmus+ mobilities

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December 19, 2025

Summary

What's PR.I.M.E.

‘PR.I.M.E. – PRomoting Inclusive Mobility Experiences’ (n.2023-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000154072) arises from the desire to make Erasmus+ more accessible.

It’s a project co-funded by the European Union, within the KA2 - Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training field of Erasmus+ Programme. It started in October 2023 and has a duration of 30 months, finishing in March 2026.

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MAIN GOALS

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- Enhancing the skills of the Partner Organisations’ staff in order to manage high-quality mobility projects involving Participants With Intellectual Disabilities (PWID) in VET, ADU and YOUTH sector;

- Creating specific and innovative tools for the staff involved in inclusive mobilities;

- Promoting greater participation of PWID in Erasmus+ and ESC-European Solidarity Corps mobilities;

- Generating innovation and internationalisation of the Partner Organisations.

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ACTIVITIES

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- Face-to-face and online Project meetings;

- ‘Sharing expertise moments’ and online trainings in a peer-to-peer approach among the Partners;

- Collection of existing materials and tips, and creation of new innovative tools to answer the needs and gaps emerged from the ‘Need Analysis’;

- A testing phase (locally and during a mobility Training Test) with people with intellectual disabilities to improve the outputs;

- Dissemination activities to share results and assure a strong impact.

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RESULTS/OUTPUTS

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- A “Need Analysis Report”;

- A “Handbook” with guidelines and tips;

- Official documents in easy-to-read and ‘Guidelines’;

- Digital tools to support pre-departure preparation of people with intellectual disabilities and their learning process within a mobility experience;

- An online environment containing all outputs and training materials;

- Development of competences of staff working to create inclusive mobility experiences;

- Strengthening the cooperation of the partnership;

- Generating innovation and internationalisation of the Partner Organisations;

- Promoting greater participation of PWID in Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps mobilities.

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PARTNERS:

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The PR.I.M.E. team is composed of 7 partners from 7 European countries: Italy, France, Poland, Lithuania, Cyprus, Greece and Malta.

- Coop. Kara Bobowski, Italy, is the Coordinator. It’s an Organisation that works with people with disabilities and has experience in European inclusive projects.

- JDC, Lithuania, is a daily centre for people with disabilities. They include their users in European projects and they are experts in easy-to-read language.

- PSONI Gdansk, Poland, is an Organisation for people with disabilities, including them in several European projects. They are experts in easy-to-read language.

- ESTIA, Greece, is an Organisations that works with people with disabilities and wants to increase their mobilities in European projects.

- Cap Ulysse, France, is a training centre that works with mobility European projects (Erasmus+) and wants to improve on their inclusive mobilities for participants with intellectual disabilities.

- VisMedNet, Malta, is an association that already works with mobility projects for fewer opportunities, and wants to develop their quality in inclusive mobilities for intellectual disabilities.

- CARDET, Cyprus, is the technical Partner that will support in the production of digital tools.

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KICK OFF MEETING IN BORDEAUX:

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On the 29th and 30th of November 2023, all Partners participated in the first face-to-face meeting that took place in Bordeaux, France.

The 14 participants were hosted by Cap Ulysse, with the aim to get to know each other better and strengthening the partnership. The diversity of competences within the Organisations is a characteristic that can enrich the results of the project.

During the meeting, other that the coordination of the project management and dissemination, Partners defined the Need Analysis strategy, finalising the online survey to be shared, and defining the guidelines for the Focus Group and Interviews to be done.

Since one of the goals of the project is the development of staff’s competences, the meeting included a ‘sharing expertise moment’ about ‘Disability’ lead by ESTIA, PSONI and JDC, in a peerto-peer approach. This training helped to increase the staff and Organisations’ knowledge about disability, in order to be able to offer more quality inclusive mobilities.

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NEEDS ANALYSIS AND ONLINE SURVEY:

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During the application step, all Partners worked together to identify difficulties and needs each one found in previous experience in the field of inclusive mobilities. This first Internal Need Analysis identified some critical points connected to the planning and implementation of this kind of mobilities.

The second step was to broaden and complete the analysis at a wider European level.

PR.I.M.E. partners invited other organizations to identify needs and difficulties relate to all the steps of the life cycle of a mobility project (application, communication, preparation, management, tutoring and monitoring, evaluation, certification and follow up) and met by different actors (project staff in Coordinating, Sending and Hosting Organisations, participants, accompanying persons, mentors, tutors).

Thanks to this knowledge, the partners were able to better define the project Handbook's arguments and sub-chapters, improving its quality.

The Wider Need Analysis uses various tools: online surveys, focus groups and interviews. We will expand on the results in the next article.

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