The share of unemployed people who are over 50 years old, immigrants, disabled, mentally ill, ethnic and religious minorities, lacking in basic employment skills, lone parents, migrants, or ex-offenders and so forth is increasing.

There are many European VET and employment organisations in all sectors, with different views on what is effective and good practice. They use different services and models of support.

Our partnership will develop a ‘platform’ to collect best practice, evidence and examples, to offer advice and discussion on how to support clients with multiple disadvantages into employment. The platform will:

• establish criteria for evidence of effectiveness in employment programmes
• compare legislative factors
• collect and discuss VET tools
• gather expertise from the partners,
• provide an opportunity to display services.
• provide a forum for EU co-operation,

Users would be schools, vocational education and training (VET) colleges, VET and employment service providers, careers counsellors, employers and so forth.

The platform will be interactive. All countries will offer material and learning. It might include a website, a series of seminars (to extend beyond the project), and will aim to create a European Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation.