CODA

Sponsors: LLP Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation, 2008-2010

Objectives:

The CODA project (Career Opportunities with Disadvantage Awareness) will resource, design and build a secure web based product that will endorse and demonstrate the abilities and achievements of learning disabled people to support them into training and work, thus helping them integrate into the labour market. This will be a valuable tool for those for whom a conventional CV is not appropriate. The CODA product comprises three different components held together on the web portal.
 

The Digital Career Portfolio (DCP) will showcase a range of key competencies and ‘soft skills’ (time keeping, customer relations, ability to travel to and from work) in a visually accessible format that does not exclude men and women with learning disabilities, and also provides information to employers in a concise and appropriate format to help them assess the potential of the learning disabled job candidate. The format of the DCP will be appropriate for other disadvantaged groups with low educational skills who have difficulty accessing the labour market. As work, training and skills are completed these competences can be added to the DCP to build up a skills log of the holder and promote access to further training or employment.

The web portal will hold the DCPs and enable employers access to a number of different candidates. This will help them choose the right candidate from the range of competencies shown on their DCPs. Both employer and potential employee will be helped with this by specially trained job coaches.

Partners:

United Response (UK) (coordination)
ESTA - Bildungswerk (DE)
IB - Internationaler Bund (DE)
MISCODE (PT)
EUROTraining (BG)
EIfEL (F)