AccessibleEU Community of Practice

Sílvio Gil Martins talks about AccessibleEU's community of practice and its objectives😀

It is an accessibility resource centre, working in areas such as the built environment, transport, information and communication technologies to ensure the participation of people with disabilities in all areas of life on an equal basis with others.

✏️Strengthening accessibility capacity in EU countries

Supporting the implementation of European Union legislation on accessibility

✏️Connecting stakeholders responsible for the implementation of accessibility rules in the EU

✏️Creating a common European one-stop-shop on accessibility

🧑 💻AccessibleEU organises a total of 88 events per year, held at European and national level in online, face-to-face and hybrid formats.

🗣Awareness-raising: Every year, there is 1 awareness-raising event at European level, 2 in large EU countries and 1 in medium and small EU countries.

👥Training: AccessibleEU offers 2 workshops and mutual learning events annually at European level, 2 in large EU countries and 1 in medium and small EU countries. Topics include, but are not limited to, the accessibility of:

Built environment

Transport

ICT

Policies

In addition, a series of online trainings on targeted accessibility topics are also offered once a year.