OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the partnership are:

1. To find the best experiences and tools used at European level in the work with animal for the development of people with disabilities.
2. To prepare educational materials (handbook, films) that could be used by specialists to improve their work with animal Assisted Therapies and/ or Animal Assisted Activities
3. To make the results of the partnership available not only to the partner organizations, but to the specialists and public at European level and even further.

The animal therapies are a relatively new method of work with disabled people. That is why many times the specialists face a lack of information and support/ training materials about it. This project comes to fill this need and to provide the important tools to the participants and to the other specialists in European countries and even worldwide.

For this purpose, we will work together as a partnership to find out what we each do in the field of Animal therapies and what other do. We will extract the most important and the best methods and experiences and we will make a small handbook for the ones that will want to work in this field. Also, we will make short films about our work with animals in the benefit of disabled people, to make it even easier to follow for everyone.

We will not only involve people with disabilities, but also students and specialists and other stakeholders at local level. We will then make the results available to as many people as possible, through web-based channels and/ or regular dissemination channels: meetings, info/ memo releases, press releases, events etc.