Vates in English
Welcome to our English sites. Here you can find some basic facts about Vates Foundation and its functions. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.
Welcome to our English sites. Here you can find some basic facts about Vates Foundation and its functions. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.
Vates Foundation acts as an expert organisation for the equal employment of people with disabilities, long-term illnesses and people with partial work capacity.
Our modes of activity are development, advocacy, training, dissemination of information and active networking.
Vates works in co-operation with the employment, rehabilitation and education stakeholders.
Vates Foundation carries out development, research and information projects, both nationally and internationally. We also act as a partner or development partner in projects conducted by others. Currently we cooperate in several national projects. Furthermore, we are involved as expert members in the steering groups of several projects.
An Erasmus + project (2017-2020) involved 5 participating countries across the EU. The project was coordinated by Malta Federation Organisations Persons with Disabilities. Vates Foundation was one of five partners.
The objective of this initiative was to create a set of modules which will assist persons with intellectual disability to engage in independent living. This will be achieved by focusing on the current need to enhance communication, literacy and numeracy skills of persons with intellectual disability. The target was to provide these persons the means to be fully integrated within the social and economic national frameworks and also to be able to realize their inherent rights for independent living.
Job Shadow Day has been a success also in Finland. This spring Job Shadow Day was organized after a two-year break. In work places there were over 160 job shadowers and about 90 employers were involved. The day was considered to be a good way to increase knowledge of the abilibities that people with disabilities have and also a good way to help young people to get familiar with working life.
Finland and other countries decided not to organise Job Shadow Day in 2020 due to coronavirus. However, we participated in the European Disability Employment Week in November 2020. In 2021, due to the corona virus, the Job Shadow Day was a small event, about 60 job shadowers took part in a day mainly through Teams.
Vates Foundation is a member of various international organisations, whose aim is to promote the employment and equality of people with disabilities and people with long-term illnesses.
Vates gives recognition award to those who promote the employability of people with disabilities open-minded and develops new patterns. The first awards were granted to employers but now we award people who work passionately to find work for people with disabilities.