Building Bridges
- between Yesterday &Tomorrow
May 13th to 15th 2014
Stockholm
From education to work - disability policy and
practical good examples from the Nordic
countries
Maarit Aalto
[email protected]
Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues- NVC
Nordic Council of Ministers
Nordic Council of Ministers is the Nordic governments’ official co-operation forum.
The Ministers for Co-operation and selected parliamentarians lead Nordic cooperation.
Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues
Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues (NVC) is one of the Institutes
under Nordic Council of Ministers and work in the field of Social and Welfare
issues.
How we work
• Knowledge: We gather and compare experiences from the Nordic
countries within the area of welfare policy.
• Development: We spread experience and best practice through our
activities and networks.
• Dialogue: We create dialogue between politicians, researchers,
professionals and practitioners.
My presentation
• Disability policy in the Nordic countries
• Good examples in the Universities
• Nordic Recommendations
• Interviews with employers
Strategies of disability policies in the
NVC-project
• A strategy for Implementation of Disability Policy, 20112016 (Sweden)
• Job Strategy for Persons with Disabilities 2011-2013
(Norway have chosen to include the policy to different
sectors. The Job Strategy is one example)
• A strong basis for Inclusion and Equality 2010-2015
(Finland)
• Plan of Action of Disability Persons Affairs 2012-2014
(Iceland)
• The Disability political Action plan 2013 - A Society for
all (Denmark)
Disability Policy in the Nordic Countries
Three basis for Disability Policy
• The Nordic Welfare Model
• The Principle of Sector Responsibility
• UN Convention on Rights of Persons with
Disability
Disability Policy in the Nordic Countries
Contents
a)Aims and starting
points
Implementation
Implementation
b) Structure
- Policy fields and
goals
Evaluation
- The importance of Research
- Cooperation between
actors
- Continuity in the evaluation
- Collect and distributions of - Intern and extern
knowledge and information evaluation
- Support efforts
- Theme-evaluation
The figure shows that the part of persons with adaptation needs
workopportunities increase with higher education (NTNU, 2008,
Norway)
Green= all
University and High schools at the right hand side
Yellow= Persons with disability
Sysselsatte i alt
100,0 %
Sysselsatte med funksjonsnedsettelser
80,0 %
81,3 %
77,3 %
70,0 %
64,0 %
60,3 %
60,0 %
50,0 %
92,2 %
88,4 %
90,0 %
63,6 %
49,5 %
45,3 %
40,0 %
32,5 %
30,0 %
20,0 %
10,0 %
0,0 %
I alt
Ungdomsskolenivå
Videregående nivå
Univ. og høyskolenivå (14 år)
Univ.og høyskolenivå
(over 4 år)
From the year 1995 to 2013 the total number of students at the University of Iceland
has increased from 5692 to 14009 students but during the same period the number
of students with disabilities has increased considerably more (Figure Maria Dóra
Björnsdóttir director of Student Counselling and Career Centre at University of Iceland)
1000
941
900
835
800
Number of students
700
693
631
600
500
462
400
332
300
200
135
100
60
62
87
148
161
195
362
391
411
228
96
0
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Year
Figure 1. Students receiving special assistance at the University of Iceland from 1995 to 2013
2012
UA-project (Education and Work)
-some good examples
Norway: Studies with support (Studier med Stötte-SMS)
Jobseminar - NTNU
Finland: University of Turku -ESOK-project and Åbo
Academy
Sweden: To be a student- Hanna Edman
Iceland: University of Iceland
Denmark: University of Aarhus ”Teaching Teachers”
Nordic Recommendations to Universities and High school of
transition from Education to Employment for students with
disability
1. Early Planning
2. A closer cooperation
3. Clarified work practise
4. Competence development and awareness raising
Interviews with employers
• Employers both from the public and from the
private sector
• Employers from big and small companies
Director Pål Wibe of Nille Company in Norway offer
jobs….
…in Norway and Sweden
Thank You
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