On 17 July 2019, António Silva Dias, LEAD project manager from Consultis, the Portuguese partner, has presented the project and its activities in general, and the Centre of Supported Employment Services in particular, at Ignite Moita – Projetos que Inspiram(“Ignite Moita – Inspiring Projects”) organised in the municipality of Moita by Ignite Portugal and CLDS Moita. Ignite Portugal is a set of events that uses the power of short-form storytelling to grow a thriving community centered on the exchange of diverse stories and challenging ideas and projects. Each speaker gets 20 slides, for 15 seconds each (for a total of 5 minutes) to share its idea or project and inspire civil society. This was a moment of exchanging, obtaining and generating new knowledge between this project partner and local stakeholders, including the final beneficiaires, with the aim to promote the Supported Employment paradigma and local services, and to promote cooperation networks, between public and private organizations as a fundamental strategy towards mainstreaming more efficient procedures of social and professional inclusion of the target group.
