Social Innovation

KL katealegaia is aware of the challenge to improve the employability of persons with different types of disabilities, that is why it promotes different innovative projects such as initiatives and actions that seek to advance towards that goal.

For over a decade KL katealegaia has been committed to implementing specific projects that enable the verified improvement of the employability of the people who most need it.

These programmes cover different areas: observatory and prospecting, tailored development plans, new ways of encompassing premature deterioration and/or ageing, NTICs to improve the training of people, etc.

INNOVATION PROGRAMMES

Aukerability

A project co-funded by the European Social Fund (50%) and the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council aimed at improving employability and finding job opportunities for people with disability. Several EHLABE organisations participate in the project, one of which is KATEA LEGAIA.

Using two axes:

Actions focussed on men and women with disability through training, suiting the job to their needs in order to improve their versatility and developing activities to prevent and mitigate their developmental impairment or premature ageing.
Creating employment for people with disability by finding and adapting to new job opportunities.

Gazteability

The project is co-financed by the European Social Fund (91.87% of eligible cost), within the scope of the Basque Country’s Youth Employment Operational Programme aimed at improving employability and finding job opportunities for people with disability under 30.

KL Social Participation Model: Gipuzkoa and employment for PwD

After the journey undertaken during the previous years where the KL Participation Model has matured internally, we continue to work searching for new forms of Social Participation always in order to improve the employment of people with disability in Gipuzkoa.

The spirit that guides this project is to use innovation and participation to cover the social needs of providing and improving the employment of people with disability with the greatest possible business (production fabric), economic (return to society), and social impact (inclusion of the people who most need it).

The model is the materialization of a new form of business relationship extending the participation of the people that make up KL in the management, decision-making, and capital.

It has consolidated the involvement of all people and the commitment of fulfilling the responsibilities as well as the capacity to address the difficulties that may emerge

Landuz

A technical assistance accompanying programme at the workplace for people in risk of or in social exclusion funded by the Social Policy Department of the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, whose main goal is to improve the employability of these people through their participation in personal development actions that focus upon the productive activity to favour their access to employment.

For this purpose, it works on the following objectives:

Support the personal journey of socio-labour inclusion of people who are in a situation or risk of exclusion.
Participation of different stakeholders who take part in the process (referral centres, the people themselves, production managers, accompanying technicians, . . .)
Develop new working and learning methods.
Reference service in providing access for people facing the greatest difficulties in Gipuzkoa.
Encourage effective equality between men and women in accessing employment by promoting positive actions.
Promote employability of these people not only in Katealegaia but also in other companies through guidance.