Another 9 VET Providers Joined the Training on Barrier-Free Admissions

On 6–7 April, Kyiv hosted the second training on managing inclusive communication campaigns for vocational education and training (VET) providers within the Skills4Recovery Multi-Donor Initiative. Another nine institutions joined the training. This marked the completion of the second stage of the training block, which overall covered 18 VET providers.

This stage focused on how to build admissions-related communication in a way that is clear, accessible, and helps attract more persons with disabilities to vocational education and training. During the training, participants worked on key messages, target audiences, communication channels, information accessibility, and approaches that help avoid creating barriers already at the stage of the first contact with a VET institution.

Special attention was given to the practical experience of the institutions themselves. Participants shared how they combine websites, social media, open days, outreach master classes, meetings with parents, and other formats in order to engage more effectively with prospective applicants. They also discussed how to adapt information for different target audiences — young people, parents, communities, and employers.

Representatives of nine vocational education and training (VET) providers took part in the second training: the Higher Vocational Mining and Construction School; the Municipal Vocational Education and Training Institution “Kyiv Professional College of Construction and Communal Services”; the State Vocational School “Dnipro Centre for Vocational Education”; the Municipal Institution “Vinnytsia Vocational College of Digital Technologies and Entrepreneurship” of Vinnytsia Regional State Administration; Khmelnytskyi Higher Vocational School No.25; Kharkiv Vocational Education and Training Centre of the State Employment Service; Poltava Vocational Education and Training Centre of the State Employment Service; Kyiv Vocational College of Architecture, Construction, and Management; and Zhytomyr Agrotechnical Technical Professional College.

The second training completed the learning module on managing inclusive communication campaigns for 18 vocational education and training (VET) providers. For VET teams, this was an opportunity to view the admissions campaign not only as an information effort, but also as a tool for openness, trust-building, and engagement with prospective students.

For the National Assembly of People with Disabilities of Ukraine (NAPD) and its partners, this is a continuation of efforts to ensure that vocational education and training providers are able not only to implement inclusive approaches, but also to communicate them clearly and accessibly to their future students.

The project “Inclusive Vocational Education and Training (VET): Improving Training for Veterans and People with Disabilities” is being implemented by the National Assembly of People with Disabilities of Ukraine (NAPD), jointly with Christoffel-Blindenmission Christian Blind Mission e.V. (CBM), with financial support from the European Union, Germany, Poland, Estonia, and Denmark as part of the Skills4Recovery Multi-Donor Initiative, which is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Solidarity Fund PL (SFPL).