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Inclusive Community Forum

Inclusive Community Forum

The search for a more inclusive community

The Inclusive Community Forum (ICF) is a Nova SBE initiative dedicated to the life of people with disabilities that aims to promote a more inclusive community. Our goal is to build a network consisting of all those who play a role in these people's lives, challenging them to take an active role in co-creating solutions.

Working on subjects that always have as common denominator the inclusion of people with disabilities in the community, the ICF focus on employability and education.

As part of Nova SBE and being integrated with the Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center, ICF relies on its vast network of contacts and partners to leverage and scale not only its initiatives but also its impact potential.

 

Mission

  • Call for the community’s active participation in the development of structured initiatives to address the main obstacles to the inclusion of people with disabilities.

 

Vision

  • Be the driver for an inclusive community in which every person with a disability can fulfill their life project.

 

Values

  • Inclusion
  • Equity
  • Cooperation
  • Innovation
Event

Event

On September 18th, between 10AM and 5.30PM, on the Hovione Atrium at the Nova SBE Carcavelos Campus – PONTES – Potenciar Os Nossos Talentos para a Empregabilidade de Sucesso (Empowering Our Talents for Successful Employability). 

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, through the Unidade de Missão Valor T – Talento e Transformação, and the Nova SBE Iclusive Community Forum, present the “PONTES” event. This encounter aims to make national inclusivity initiatives knows, with particular focus on the area of training and employability of people with disabilities. 

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Commitment to Inclusion

Commitment to Inclusion

By signing the "Commitment to Inclusion," companies declare their interest and commitment in promoting the employability of people with disabilities, recognizing the economic and social value of this reality for the company they represent, their employees, and the community.

With the signing of the "Commitment to Inclusion," companies benefit from ICF's support in operationalizing the first steps for hiring people with disabilities.

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Education

Education

In April 2019, ICF launched the topic of education for people with disabilities while transitioning to working life.

With the overarching objective of "strengthening the empowerment of people with disabilities for working life," ICF and its community have begun to develop solutions to transform the current landscape in this area.

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Inclusive Recruitment

Inclusive Recruitment

If you have a disability and are looking for a job, an IPSS dedicated to the life of people with disabilities with job candidates, or a company that wants to hire employees with disabilities, find out what you have to do.

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Peer2Peer

Peer2Peer

Peer2Peer is a preparing program for the job market, based on a one-to-one dynamic between a university student and a person with a disability looking for work, aiming to provide an experience where two different realities meet.

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Journey to Empowerment

Journey to Empowerment

To work on the topic of education, ICF has created a working group composed of stakeholders with a decisive role in the education of people with disabilities.

Get to know all the initiatives co-created and tested on the ground by this group.

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Best Practices in Inclusive Recruitment

Best Practices in Inclusive Recruitment

The Manual of Good Practices is the result of the systematization of the good practices presented by the signatory companies of the Commitment to Inclusion, as a response to the main challenges they have identified in the area of Inclusive Recruitment.

These good practices were worked on as part of the Inclusive Talks working session dedicated to these companies in January 2024, and then systematized by the Inclusive Community Forum team.

 

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Community

Community

Since the beginning of ICF, many people and entities have shown interest in contributing in different ways to the development of the project. For this reason, we have promoted several types of initiatives that allow the Nova SBE Community – (students, teachers, and staff), partner companies, people with disabilities, their families and friends, third sector organizations – to play an active role in building solutions.

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Employability

Employability

In September 2017, the employability of people with disabilities was the topic chosen to be worked on during the following three semesters.

Discover here the road that it was taken and the achievements garnered.

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Education

Education

In April 2019, ICF announced that it would work the theme of Education for people with disabilities while transitioning to working life.

Learn here how this path is being taken.

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65
companies have signed the Commitment to Inclusion
400+
people with disabilities impacted (directly or indirectly)
12
projects under development

ICF, according to Rui Diniz - Founder of ICF

We thought it would be good if we could help find solutions so that people with disabilities could have a better life, benefitting from a much better inclusion in our community.

Sustainable Development Goals

Through the work carried out by the Inclusive Community Forum, several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being worked on. These define the 17 priorities and aspirations for global sustainable development by 2030, seeking to mobilize global efforts around a set of common goals and targets. The ICF contributes specifically to four of these:

ICF Impact Assessment

In 2022, ICF, together with Stone Soup Consulting, developed an Impact Assessment of the first 5 years of ICF's activity.

Get to know the main results of this impact assessment.

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