FIRAH Resource Centre Project Interactive platform overseeing the sharing and exchange of knowledge resulting from applied research
17.10.2013
Document type: Documentos oficiales
Introduction to the FIRAH overall project
The Foundation's project is based upon 2 complementary focal points which come together to support FIRAH'S assignment:
- The selection and financing of applied research projects via their annual call for projects,
- The circulation, promotion and development of knowledge resulting from applied research, financed or not by FIRAH, via the Resource Centre.
Applied research is focused on the needs of persons with disabilities and their families and seeks to create actions adapted to the reality of their needs. Applied research must be carried out in close collaboration with researchers, professionals, persons with disabilities and their families, in order to take into account the main concerns of persons with disabilities and their families. The final goal of applied research is to suggest actions which should be taken to solve specific issues related to practical problems. Therefore, the FIRAH seeks to foster the elaboration and dissemination of “relative materials”
Resource Centre objectives
- Facilitate the elaboration of new projects of applied research and foster collaboration between researchers and associations.
- Enhance applied research projects and disseminate the knowledge obtain from the research via “relative materials”
- Inform about existing applied research projects on disability, provide access to relative materials (whether elaborated by the FIRAH or not)
- Conduct an objective evaluation of applied research already carried out and International practices.
