Cometa’s approach always starts from experience — the one lived every day by students at school and by young people and adults in the workplace.
A single thread runs through everything we do: putting the person at the centre, helping them discover their talents and build a future made of dignity, independence, and relationships.
Cometa’s method is born from a gaze.
A gaze that over time has learned, found words and tools, and become more aware while always keeping the same origin: welcoming every person for who they are, without forgetting anything of their story.
It is not a mechanical method nor a set of procedures: it is a living experience, one that sees the desire for goodness, beauty, and truth present in every person.
Today this gaze is at the heart of everything we do in our school, workshops, care settings, and workplaces.
A simple method, made of patience, love, and care. An original and unique method, just like every person we meet
Education
A journey that values the uniqueness of each person
Cometa’s educational method is born from direct knowledge and the observation of real needs of young people. At the Oliver Twist School, you learn by doing: work becomes an opportunity for knowledge and growth, through “real-world tasks” that combine practice and theory, educating students to commitment and the satisfaction of achieving results.
Since 2018, our school has been recognised by UNESCO as a European centre of excellence for its training method.
- Learning by doing
- Real-world tasks
- Beauty that educates
- School-enterprise
Work
Shaping places where everyone has a role
After school, many vulnerable young people risk isolation and marginalisation. That is why we created inclusive workplaces, where everyone can express their abilities and aspirations, develop professional skills, and discover new forms of independence.
Work thus becomes a starting point: a genuine role in society, a reason to get up every morning, an experience of true integration.
Values and tools that transform experience into growth
We have adapted our organisation to the needs of vulnerable people, developing moments of constant exchange and training that allow staff to observe, experiment, and choose the best strategies for each worker.
Support does not end within our spaces: we collaborate with families, specialists, local services, and international partners (APSA, University of Elche) to build solid and shared pathways.
For each person, specific and tailored goals are set, related to both professional growth and personal wellbeing. This is how every talent can emerge and become a resource for the entire group.
We redesign spaces and processes based on people’s needs. Tidy environments, task organisation and division, tutoring and mediation by the company tutor, simple and clear communication supported by symbols or images make work more accessible to everyone.
We use targeted tools to get to know each person and support their work activity: from data collection and interviews with families, to observation sheets, to materials that simplify complex tasks with images, checklists, and clear procedures.
We start from the needs of the person with a disability and actively involve every trainee and worker in the creation of tools and facilitators that make learning tasks and communication truly accessible.
We collaborate with European organisations, such as APSA in Spain, to develop innovative pedagogical methodologies, including in the field of disability. Through our International Affairs & Research area, we work every day to take Cometa ever further, turning internationalisation into a concrete opportunity for growth for those we welcome.
In our workplaces, it is not only the lives of those who work that change: the perspective of colleagues, companies, and customers changes too.
We discover every day that limits are not insurmountable barriers, but opportunities for growth for everyone.
Cometa’s pedagogical method does not end with a limited experience but takes shape in structured pathways of professional training, internships, and ongoing support. Attention is given to both skills development and the overall wellbeing of the person.
Accompanying means supporting the development of a possible and sustainable professional identity, facilitating entry into and permanence in the world of work, and offering opportunities for lifelong learning, so that acquired skills can be consolidated over time. In this way, the work and social needs of people with disabilities meet the needs of companies, creating environments where inclusion is concrete, daily, and generative.
Cometa’s training and work accompaniment pathways are aimed in particular at adults with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, often excluded from the world of work due to criteria of efficiency and productivity.
We believe that, when given the right conditions and supported with targeted tools and facilitators, these individuals can express genuine talents, develop professional skills, and rediscover themselves as a resource for themselves and for others.
Work thus becomes not only an employment opportunity, but a place of recognition, belonging, and citizenship.
Inclusion
This experience has changed my life because I met people who care about me and guide me while teaching me a trade. Thanks to them, I realised that I too can do something for others, and this is wonderful and very important because usually it is always others who help me.
— Federica, Work Cafè LVMH worker
What we do
Cometa is a place where every person can feel loved, awaited, and wanted, discovering their own value
Care
The first step is feeling at home
Caring means accompanying children, young people, and families with listening, attention, and everyday sharing
Education
Learning by doing, growing together
School, workshops, projects, and work: educational pathways start from experience to help each person find their own way, developing knowledge and self-awareness
Work
Work as opportunity, discovery, self-building
Workplaces that offer young people and individuals with disabilities and vulnerabilities the chance to get involved, acquire skills, and be concretely supported into the world of work
Our mission is achieved thanks to a network of people who believe in possible change: educators, volunteers, supporters, partner companies, and institutions who share the educational responsibility towards present and future generations.
