Description of organisation

Ausilioteca Mediterranea Onlus is a social enterprise that operates in the sector of technologies and services to support people with disabilities. Currently the equipe is involved in different area and it’s composed by different members: biomedical engineer, aids and communication technician, a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, professional educators and other complementary professionals such as: international design and cooperation experts, educationalists and experts in training processes, expert in social innovation and youth programme. Since 2007, when the organization has founded, the main aim is to promote equal opportunities, autonomy and the social, work and education inclusion. All our effort are focus on disadvantaged people due to physical, mental, economic, social and family conditions, with a particular interest for people in disability condition. In Moreover and secondly we push to promote a shared culture of assistive technologies and accessibility in general in young Europeans. This culture, going beyond all barriers to support disabled population, is spread in an irregular manner among the EU countries. For instance in Italy has developed more expertise in building a highly structured system of laws but at the same time is still lacking in terms of the most innovative social inclusion practices. Therefore the objective is to share european experiences and information that can be reported in each countries of origin, for us starting from Italy. In the perspective of a reciprocal exchange our organization will be able to acquire information and sensibility on the topic brought by the young volunteers, mixing competences and contents and building a constant link between countries enhancing a virtuous mechanism like that of European exchanges of volunteers. In the long term, we aim to create a voluntary network based on a common approach to the issues of disability and accessibility so as to be able to create shared paths bearing both values and diverse and varied experiences. This humus will be able to favor the birth of new approaches and solutions in terms of accessibility for disabled people especially. Another long-term goal is to promote the mobility of people with disabilities within the union. Ausiloteca Mediterranea Onlus (AMO) has approached the world of disability in recent years, collaborating with both public and private subjects. Since 2007 AMO, formerly Centro Autonomia Ausilioteca Campana Onlus, has been involved in the creation of individualized routes for overcoming difficult situations related to mobility, communication and personal well-being, for the quality of life and the autonomy of people in condition of need and in particular of the students in situation of special education needs, named BES in Italian language.
Our organization is a member of the Italian Network of Help Centers named GLIC, moreover we are member of the National Observatory on the issues related to the Disability of the Italian Ministry of Welfare and Health and we signed an agreement with MIUR, Ministry of Education, University and Research
Since 2007 on the theme of special education needs, AMO is the creator and partner of projects with various schools (for example Cariteo Italico, Tito Livio Secondary School of Naples, Sannino De Cillis Secondary of Naples, Ronca Tertiary School in Avellino and the Chalcedony in Salerno) and CTS (Support Territorial Center) present on the territory of the Campania Region. For this reason, and looking forward our personal involvement in ESC, the most consistent group of partnerships is made up of schools (primary and secondary)
Some of our activities are reported below:
- Information, Training and Consultancy for CTS and CTI (Inclusion Territoral Center) operators, for the identification and proposal of assistive technologies in BES situations, for school / family training courses, for the use of innovative teaching strategies and the use of ICT and compensatory tools for the inclusion of students with BES.
- Psychological listening desk open to parents and students, support for teachers for a global management
- Support and consultancy for setting up a stable set of compensatory aids and technologies that allows the CTS to carry out information and consultancy activities and loan for use in the best possible way behind the presentation of a project by the requesting schools.
- Support for the computerization of the CTS Documentation Center,
- Experimentation for monitoring the actions and outcomes of joint interventions.
- Support for the creation of local networks with the various local actors: health services, social services, research centers, companies, sector associations.
- cultural activities on accessibility to social participation of disabled people
For this reason our target group is youth generation want to be involved in different process, with social innovative approch, to improve the condition of disablity people.