For the year 2025, the following activities are planned:
Brigitte took a physical sabbatical to go on a sailing tour of the Atlantic; with two and sometimes three, she will descend to the south, then make the crossing from Cape Verde to Martinique and then sail along the east coast of the US, and through Canada to Greenland and then to Iceland and via Scotland back to the coast in the Netherlands.
Work4All project completed successfully: Erasmus+ score 84 points, on a scale of 100 and named as exemplary project by the National Agency. Via the Work4All project, the Inclusive Job Design method was tested in seven European countries.
A licence agreement was concluded with the Norwegian organisation Work & Inclusion, an umbrella organisation in the world of work and disability.
Kern: Work & Inclusion will train professionals in Norway, the FNS will train the trainers. Cooperation is and has been found with the University of Porsgrunn, which has a special research department on work and inclusion. Arrangements are being made with the relevant professor for the scientific investigation of the method: the method, the training, the result, the possible success ingredients.
A cooperation agreement with the PTC group concluded, focusing on the transfer of the method, as well as advising and supporting the team within PTC that will deal with ‘job creation’
Delivered some presentations and workshops:
– For the European Platform for Rehabilitation, on Inclusive Job Design
– For a transnational Erasmus+ project, on Inclusive Job Design
– For a group of managers of Norwegian service providers, on the methodology and implementation of Inclusive Job Design
– A collaboration with the Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen, together with the PTC group, to offer a post-hbo training programme ‘Advisor Inclusion’. This post-hbo course will start in October 2022.
– A research project in cooperation with Odisee hogeschool in Flanders, commissioned by the Flemish Department of Social Affairs and Employment, to identify the extent to which ‘rethinking jobs’ can contribute to solving bottleneck jobs on the one hand and reducing the number of people on benefits who are currently outside the labour market on the other.
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Participation in research project, in cooperation with SBCM and Maastricht University
SBCM and the Expertisecentrum Inclusieve Arbeidsorganisatie/Universiteit Maastricht, in collaboration with the Frans Nijhuis Foundation, are conducting research to understand the critical success factors of the methods IHW and Job Creation, as forms of social innovation, in practice. The Expertisecentrum Inclusieve Arbeidsorganisatie/Universiteit Maastricht and the SBCM contribute financially the part of the research and the Frans Nijhuis Foundation contributes in kind in the form of substantive and strategic advice.