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HEALTH: increasing access to healthcare for persons with disabilities

The HEALTH study aims to support Member States, Iceland and Norway with guidance on increasing access to healthcare for persons with disabilities, with a focus on cancer care.

Empower Ukraine

Empower Ukraine is a project working towards the better inclusion of at-risk internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, veterans, older people, single-headed households, adults and children in institutions, and members of host communities with and without disabilities in specifically six oblasts (regions) in Ukraine.

Ukraine war: OPD led disability inclusive response and recovery (Phase 2)

This project - funded by CBM - aims to ensure persons with disabilities and their representative organizations (OPDs) are not left behind in the response and recovery of the Ukrainian crisis.

AccessibleEU Centre

AccessibleEU is a resource centre on accessibility, working in the areas of built environment, transport, information and communication technologies, and accessibility policies, to ensure the participation of persons with disabilities in all areas of life on an equal basis with others.

Accessible Spaces For All: Improving Accessibility of Tourism for Persons with Disabilities in Central Europe

About the project The objective of the CE-Spaces4All project (also known as the Accessible Spaces for All project)...

European research on Digital Skills, Accommodation and Technological Assistance for Employment (DATA)

About the research EDF will conduct European research supported by Google.org on Digital Skills, Accommodation and Technological Assistance...

Disability Inclusive Artificial Intelligence (AI)

EDF recognises Artificial Intelligence's (AI) potential to greatly improve the lives of persons with disabilities, but also its...

ATHENA: Bringing Accessibility and Design for All into Higher Education Curricula

ATHENA project aims to bring Accessibility and Design for All into Higher Education Curricula by developing and testing guidelines and recommendations which will stimulate innovative learning and teaching practices to tackle social inclusion of persons with disabilities.

Disability Rights in the European Elections (DREE)

The Disability Rights in the European Elections (DREE) project aims to increase political participation of persons with disabilities, as voters, political activists and candidates in European elections.

Strengthening resilience of older persons and persons with disabilities during COVID-19 and future disasters (CovidResilience, RESOPP)

CovidResilience project aims to contribute to strengthened resilience of older persons and persons with disabilities in the Western...

The Ascend Project: Capacity building of disabled people’s associations in Central and Eastern Europe

Logos of the partners, EDF and Citi Foundation. News Ascend Phase 2 Activities in Hungary (November 2023) Digitalisation,...

ACCESSIBILITECH project

ACCESSIBILITECH is a EU funded initiative that seeks to provide solutions to problems such as those experienced during the pandemic and that likely to arise again

WAI-CooP project

The Web Accessibility Initiative Communities of Practice (WAI-CooP) is a project to support the implementation of the EU web accessibility directive and international standards for digital accessibility.

The 25 Percent

We are the unheard, the unrepresented — young people. But our voices have so much more power than we know. Together, we can change the world, starting with sharing our ideas at the Conference on the Future of Europe.

D-WISE

The aim of this project is to enhance the understanding of social inclusive companies in Europe employing a significant percentage of persons with disabilities.

Disability Hub Europe (DHub)

A new European initiative led by Fundación ONCE and co-funded by the European Social Fund, aimed at building a reference space to work on the binomial Disability and Sustainability.