The European project “My Talents. For Diversity” has started – ETR

“My Talents. For Diversity” is a project
that Inclusion Europe is doing
together with other organisations.

These organisations are:

• Plena Inclusión from Spain
• EVPIT from Estonia
• Antwerp Management School from Belgium.

The project is about including
people with intellectual disabilities
in the workplace.
For this we use “diversity management”.

Diversity management means
that people that are very different from each other
work in the same company.

This is done so that
companies can become more creative.

For this project we are also working
with an organisation from England
which is called Change People.

Change People is an organisation that works
with people with intellectual disabilities.

Change People employs people with intellectual disabilities
and also helps them to be employed
by other organisations.

Change People knows a lot on this topic,
because they have been doing this work
for many years.

In this project we will:

• Learn about who is the best at managing diversity.
  For this we will find companies that already work
  with people with intellectual disabilities.
  We will ask them what they did
  to make the workplace inclusive.
• Learn about the good things
  diversity brings to a company.
  Especially when the company employs
  people with intellectual disabilities.
• Write a document for politicians
  with things they can do
  to make better laws
  against discrimination.
• We will train people with intellectual disabilities,
  their families, and company bosses.
  They will learn
  how they can work well together.
• We will learn how to measure
  how much diversity there is in a company.This project is starting now
  and it will last for 2 years.

We translated this article from Planeta Fácil,
the easy-to-read website of Plena Inclusión.

We changed the article a bit
and added information.

You can read the Spanish article here.