European Partner Search for the Etablissement de Rééducation Professionnelle (ERP-ONAC)
(2002-2003)

Type of activity: European partner search for two projects - EQUAL and LEONARDO

Objectives:

• EQUAL : During Action 1 the EIESP assisted the ERP-ONAC in establishing a transnational partnership for the project Formation et insertion des traumatisés crâniens en milieu ordinaire de travail, developed under the thematic priority "Facilitating access to the labour market". This included drafting the Transnational Cooperation Agreement.
• LEONARDO : partner search for institutional partnerships in the United Kingdom and Ireland for ERP for the project Développer ses compétences et reconquérir l'emploi en se formant dans les entreprises européennes, in the framework of trainee mobility.

Background:

• EQUAL : The ERP (France) and their transnational partner EFFATHA (Netherlands) have developed projects which aim to improve access to training for people with a disability as well as the assessment of their competences and their labour market integration.
• LEONARDO : The mobility measure aims to encourage transnational mobility of people undertaking vocational training in order to improve the quality, the innovative aspects and the European dimension of training systems. The ERP has developed a project which aims to improve equal opportunities of people with a disability to training. As part of the project, young trainees with minor disabilities undertake work placements in Ireland or the United Kingdom.

Main activities:
The EIESP carried out the following activities :

• EQUAL :transnational partner search; establishing contacts with possible partners; drafting of the Transnational Cooperation Agreement.
• LEONARDO : partner search in Ireland and the United Kingdom; establishing contacts with possible partners.

Name of client:
Etablissement de Rééducation Professionnelle – Office National des Anciens Combattants (France)

Expected outcomes:

• Establishment of a transnational partnership for ERP for the EQUAL project.
• Establishment of institutional partnerships with Irish and British colleges for ERP for their LEONARDO project.
• For more information, please contact: Isabelle Libert ieepsrecherche@dauphine.fr