EASPD conference “The Employment of Persons with Disabilities: Raising Awareness & Employment Opportunities”
Fri, 27/09/2013 - Sat, 28/09/2013
On the 27-28 September 2013, the EASPD conference “The Employment of Persons with Disabilities: Raising Awareness & Employment Opportunities” will take place in Istanbul. The conference will tackle the main challenges preventing people with disabilities from enjoying fully their right to work: legislative frameworks, discriminative attitudes and lack of adequate support schemes. The conference is free of charge.
The EASPD conference will look at the current situation and discuss future steps needed to facilitate access to the labour market for persons with disabilities. It will focus on the perspective of employees, looking at different approaches promoting employability, and on that of employers, by examining how they can be supported to successfully employ disabled people.
The topics will be discussed by multi-stakeholders panels composed of persons with disabilities, policy makers, representatives of employees and employers, authorities and support providers.
In addition, during the conference, the best employment agencies and employers will receive an official award for the successful work they have done towards the employment of persons with disabilities.
Conference objectives
By sharing challenges and best practices the conference aims to remove barriers and boost the employment for persons with disabilities.
The Conference will:
- - highlight the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Work and Employment (Art. 27)
- - promote exchange between employers, employees, persons with disabilities and social services and show models of - good practice that have evidence-based results
- - identify the necessary steps to create a positive synergy between employers and employees
- - launch the building blocks for a new EASPD Declaration on Employment.
Click here for the conference programme.
In the afternoon of the 2nd day of the international conference a market place will be held in the conference venue. During the market place, individuals, organizations and project partnerships will have the opportunity to show and present their work, their projects, the services offered by them and their current areas of interest and research. The market place will be an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and best practices, display PR material, booklets and leaflets and to network on top.
- Conference website
