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We support businesses across the food value chain by providing innovative and practical solutions that enable them to develop sustainable business models, thereby increasing the participation of people with disabilities.
Rural areas lose their appeal if there are no employment opportunities – there needs to be a vision for the vibrant development of businesses in the food sector and for the participation of all members of the village community. Demographic and structural change, wage structures and working conditions are leading to labour shortages within companies. At the same time, the need for opportunities for people with disabilities to participate is not being adequately met and is expected to rise further in the coming years.
With the help of a transfer grant, tried-and-tested tools in the form of information materials, further training and advisory modules are being transferred from the university to the business sector, thereby contributing to social innovation and societal change in Saxony’s food industry.
A key focus of this application lies in the commercial provision of social services by companies in the food industry. The results achieved since 2018 – primarily within the EIP-Agri research project InnoLawi – in the area of ‘other service providers’ under the Federal Participation Act have been successfully tested in initial implementations within social agriculture. In addition, in a follow-up project on knowledge transfer in 2023/24, the first transfer modules for the development of social services in the agricultural sector were tested. The project programme focuses on the implementation and adaptation of the service modules developed, as well as providing practical support to commercial SMEs in the associated planning, decision-making and implementation processes.
The long-standing research focus on ‘Inclusive Agriculture’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences explores opportunities for the employment of people with disabilities on farms and is aimed at anyone interested in agriculture as an inclusive environment.
Please feel free to have a look around our website! Here you’ll find useful information on the topic, further links, helpful resources and the results of previous research projects.
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Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences
Visiting address: Bahnhofstr. 15, Building 39, Room 120
Postal address: Technikumplatz 17, 09648 Mittweida
Email: delling@hs-mittweida.de
Tel.: 0172 7911873
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