in.arbeit – digi­tal

Brief descrip­ti­on

For many years shel­te­red work­shops for peo­p­le with disa­bi­li­ties (WfbM) have been using a wide ran­ge of con­cepts to pro­mo­te inclu­si­on to coun­ter the risk that new social spaces are crea­ted by or in WfbM that are not suf­fi­ci­ent­ly inte­gra­ted into muni­ci­pal or regio­nal social spaces. Accor­din­gly, decen­tra­li­sa­ti­on approa­ches can be found among the­se con­cepts, which are rea­li­sed through exter­nal work groups, com­pa­ny-inte­gra­ted work groups or out­sour­ced indi­vi­du­al work­places. Howe­ver, the pro­por­ti­on of decen­tra­li­sed work­places nati­on­wi­de is only slow­ly incre­asing. In gene­ral, sta­tis­tics show that tran­si­ti­ons from a WfbM to the open labour mar­ket occur signi­fi­cant­ly more often from decen­tra­li­sed (indi­vi­du­al) work­places than from any other type of arran­ge­ment, which is why the crea­ti­on of such tran­si­ti­on-pro­mo­ting frame­work con­di­ti­ons is essen­ti­al.

The in.arbeit-digital pro­ject aims at a con­sis­tent decen­tra­li­sa­ti­on based on the approach of the so-cal­led Bam­berg Model.  In the medi­um term, 15% of in.arbeit employees are to be employ­ed in (indi­vi­du­al) work­places inte­gra­ted into the local com­mu­ni­ty. Sys­te­mic limits to decen­tra­li­sa­ti­on that have beco­me visi­ble and are evi­dent in the low level of decen­tra­li­sa­ti­on nati­on­wi­de are to be redu­ced or eli­mi­na­ted with the help of digi­ta­li­sa­ti­on. Digi­ta­li­sa­ti­on should not only be used sel­ec­tively, but should be con­side­red sys­te­mi­cal­ly as a design ele­ment and used whe­re it has strengths com­pared to other imple­men­ta­ti­on opti­ons or can use effi­ci­en­cy poten­ti­als. The tar­get groups of digi­ti­sa­ti­on are the­r­e­fo­re employees, spe­cia­list staff and (poten­ti­al) employ­ers, but also rela­ti­ves, col­le­agues or pro­vi­ders of trai­ning or qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on pro­gram­mes.

Accor­din­gly, the pro­ject focu­ses on desig­ning digi­ta­li­sa­ti­on in such a way that a WfbM can achie­ve a hig­her degree of decen­tra­li­sa­ti­on while at the same time main­tai­ning eco­no­mic effi­ci­en­cy and thus crea­te new / addi­tio­nal par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on oppor­tu­ni­ties for employees with disa­bi­li­ties in the social sphe­re as well as hig­her-qua­li­ty voca­tio­nal par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on.