The Foundation aims at:
- Improving the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and autism and their families with the focus on protecting, promoting and exercising internationally established standards in the field of human rights and civil liberties.
- Improving and raising public awareness about the needs of people with autism and intellectual disabilities.
- Encouraging and implementing activities on a wider social agenda that emphasize the abilities of people with autism and intellectual disabilities and contribute to the development of their potential, the strengthening of their personality and integration into society.
- Improving and educating the public about the problems, potentials, rights and obligations of people with autism and intellectual disabilities.
- Providing material and any other assistance to people with autism and intellectual disabilities.
- Achieving the full integration of people with autism and intellectual disabilities and their families into all segments of social and economic life.
- Providing and enabling the fulfilment of conditions for the independent life of persons with autism and intellectual disabilities.
- Ensuring the independent life of people with autism and intellectual disabilities as a user of day care services, housing with support and/or personal assistance.
While the Foundation may be young, its founders and associates are family members and professionals with extensive knowledge and experience from the field of autism and intellectual disabilities.
Particular areas of interest and the direction in which the Foundation is aiming its activities are issues of youth and adults with autism, i.e. higher education, housing, employment and health care. In addition, Foundation is devoted to education of families and professionals, with special interest in insufficiently spoken or problematic topics. At the moment, in addition to IPA2, the Foundation is participating in two more Erasmus + projects:
- Training University Teachers for the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. This programme is addressed to teachers and professors at the University level, to improve their knowledge about intellectual disabilities, the specific educational needs related to them, and the different possibilities to adapt their subjects for the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities.
- A spectrum of opportunities: training field professionals on how to recruit and support individuals with autism at the workplace.