Support and inclusion of students with disabilities in   higher

education institutions in Montenegro

Working VisitWP2. “Definition of support services

for students with disabilities at HEIs”

Presentation by Daniele Regolo

University of Macerata, 11July 2012

Allocating disabled workers indifferently to any kind of roles is not the best solution,

neither for them nor for the hiring company.

Expertise is acquired step by step,starting from the school context.

Persons with a disability and work: the point of view

of a disabled

The disabling aspects of my hearing impairment were prevailing and generated a number of consequences:

Overprotection

Lack of objectiveness in the assessment of my abilities as a student

Gaps in the learning process due to the adoption of a strictly communicative approach

Once I finished university,I embarked upon a new experience:the transition into the working world

Help!

My handicaps

• A final mark which did not reflect my efforts and was taken into account for recruitment purposes as well as for competitive entrance examinations, selections, etc;

• A sudden and fierce transition from the sheltered world of school to the working world;

• Predominance of verbal communication

We do not need to find a place for the disabled:

EXTERNAL ACTION TOWARDS THE DISABLED

School, training and professionalism allow for:

EXPOSURE OF THE DISABLED TOWARDS THE OUTSIDE WORLD

Which direction?

Finally...

Open recruitment by local health authority, reserved for disabled candidates.

I was allocated at the hospital front office, with the authorisation of the Employment

Office.

A deaf person at the front office!

The public sector was not able to protect one of its workers:

Stressed worker;

Deterioration of the worker's interpersonal relationships;

Decrease in the quality of the services provided

Resignation

Loss of significance of the job on the whole.

Need to make every effort so as to concretely address the emergencies in our

society.

Better job options for disabled,better opportunity for investors

http://www.jobdisabili.it/

Problem

December 2009: 751.258 protected workers

Companies prefer to pay fines rather than to hire people with disabilities

People forced to "wait for time to pass"

Disbursement of pensions by the State

Solution

People can become self-sufficient thanks to job

They become a stimulus for the economy as they are able to purchase more goods and services

Growth of both economy and society

Our solution: Jobdisabili.it

Key differentiation factors

• conversation from disable community to corporations and viceversa

• niche focus

• free of charge

• no proper "job posting bulletin board"

• résumé and “Talking about me”

Business Model

For profit

Advertising business

Sells banner advertising

Corporate Social Responsability (C. S. R) opportunity:

a) Advertising productsb) Image Value

Advertising clients

Founded: February 2011Currently: over 2.500 registered usersPartner support

The team

Outsource and advisors

Daniele Regolo

Degree in Political Science / Author / Speaker in conventions (interviewed on RAI) / auditory disabled from birth

Francesco Di Bitonto (www.facilitatoreprocessi.it): communication

Silvia Sanginiti & Agnese Morettini: translator-assistant

Roberto Vitali (Village 4 All ): disabled entrepreneur

Financials

Special value to advertiser:

Highly defined demographic of registered users

Added value to advertiser:

Social involvement that can be leveraged in marketing

Social R.O.I.

Supporting Jobdisabili means:

Investing in key differentiation Social redemption of disabled

Pension reduction Economic development

Economy can become an instrument of Economy can become an instrument of democracydemocracy

Global Social Venture Competition

Italian Round 2012

1° Jobdisabili

2° Mapability

3° Nucafe

Jobdisabili is an enterprise that draws from my personal life and experiences:

As a disabled person

As a temporary worker

As an employee

Law 68/99 on the targeted employment of disabled people

Summary

Interested parties:

People in working age who suffer from either a physical or sensory disability which decreases

their work capacity more than 45%;

Law 68/99 on the targeted employment of disabled people

Summary

Disabled workers having a degree of invalidity of 33% or more;

Blind or deaf people;

War disabled, war disabled civilians and disabled servicemen.

Obligations

Employers in the public and private sectors with more than 50 employees must meet a 7%

disability employment quota;

At least two disabled workers must be hired in workplaces of 36 to 50 employees and one disabled worker in workplaces of 15 to 35

employees.

Penalties

For each business day during which this compulsory employment quota is not respected,

for reasons attributable to the employer, the employer is obliged to pay a sum for each

disabled worker who is not employed on that same day. The sum will have to be paid to the

Regional Fund as an administrative fine. A great number of companies prefer to pay fines rather

than hiring disabled workers.

The otherwise-abled worker who can demonstrate to be a valid professional "distracts" the hiring company from the

(already subsidized) costs it incurs in order to ease the worker's integration in the

workplace(IT and environmental costs, etc.)

And...

Our reality is of utmost complexity

Many disabled people are so discouraged, dispirited and unmotivated that they decline job offers without having even weighed them up. Many others, instead, claim for a permanent job as they are tired of being offered only fixed term contracts.

The integration of disabled workers in the workplace should represent the

final goalof a long and constant training process, combined with the ongoing commitment, on the side of the company, to remove any obstacles that might make their journey through life harder.

Once upon a long ago

Myrdal

Swedish economist and Nobel Prize,once said:

The break-even point of a companydoes not exist,

there only exists a break-even point.Hence we should ask ourselves: what is really relevant, the mere productivity?

Or our quality of life? Or both?Are we so sure that these two aspects

cannot coexist?