Exchange of professionals between European medico-social structure

Abstract

This two-year project connects four European institutions in four European countries: France, Belgium, Italy and Lithuania. The four institutions share the same priority, namely the quality of support for the young people with disabilities that they host. Three of these institutions are well acquainted with each other, already involved in an Erasmus+ project for young people, their families and professionals on the use of screens : “Net ou p@s Net”. The organized stays have already shown the interest and the relevance of these exchanges. The differences in culture but above all in practices from one country to another enrich collective thinking. For example, a country like Italy is more advanced than France in terms of inclusion. We therefore want to go further with this project, sending only professionals to discover specific practices in each European structure. Two professionals per country and a director will go to different institutions for five days to observe their counterparts. Each professional and the director will alternate to have different visions. In the host country, they will not replace another professional but be there as an observer (“job-shadowing”), not to put them in difficulty. In their country of origin, they will be replaced during their absence to avoid putting their colleagues in difficulty with extra workload. These visits will be sources of analysis, sharing and elaboration on professional practices. When they return, the professionals will be able to present to their colleagues their observations and the analyzed modes of accompaniment that they will be able to experiment with, obviously taking into account the cultural differences between their countries.