Includ-ed, red europea de educación inclusiva

We are delighted to announce a major conference on  ’Disability Policy Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century - Toward New Scholarship Supporting Change’ to take place on June 23, 24, 25 at the Centre for Disability, Law & Policy in the National University of Ireland, Galway.  

This event will bring together major agents of change in the disability policy field around the world and will focus in particular on how to translate the generalities of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into practicable reform strategies.  It will build on the work of a European-wide PhD network (the DREAM network) which has laboured over the past three years and which focused on how to give practical effect to the UN Convention in areas such as (1) fundamental rights (e.g. the right to community living), (2) expanding economic and market opportunities for persons with disabilities and (3) sustaining change with appropriate and effective institutional mechanisms at regional and national level.  This PhD network was among the first in the world with a focus on the UN disability convention and was funded by the European Union as a Marie Curie Initial Training Network.

The DREAM network includes the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), University of Leeds, Maastricht University, University of Iceland, NOVA Norwegian Social Research, Fundosa Technosite S.A. and Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF) see: http://www.disability-rights.eu/

The event will interest all those concerned with the process of change including NGOs, DPOs, Governments, international and regional organisations as well as business and services.  It will also be of importance to academics, students and researchers interested in the UN CRPD as an engine of positive change for persons with disabilities.

Further details are available here: http://www.nuigalway.ie/dream/events.html

Participation in this event is free of charge and the venue will be accessible. For further information, please contact Marie Kennedy at [email protected] or on +353 91 494011.