Opti-work – Optimising strategies for integrating people with disabilities into work

Utilising recent research and developments across a range of disciplines, Opti-Work aims to add value to EU and national employment policy and national systems to promote the integration of people with disabilities into the labour market. It will develop a conceptual framework, consisting of a set of culturally relevant analytical tools. These tools will be capable of throwing light upon the 'threshold' decisions of job seekers with disabilities and potential employers and the economic and social cost/benefits of crossing the threshold to employment for the State, employer and person with a disability. This will permit systems and initiatives to be benchmarked across jurisdictions in these terms. The perspectives of key stakeholders, active job seekers with disabilities and potential employers, and passive employers and inactive people with disabilities, will underpin the development process of this coordination action. System characteristics, which lower the threshold to employment for people with disabilities and minimise the costs of disability and employment equity measures for the State, the jobseeker and the employer, will be highlighted and future strategies will be proposed. An online knowledge management resource centre will be produced, in order to facilitate community building between the EU and national stakeholders.

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