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1 26 September 2014 DISCIT Midterm Workshop Achievements and Implications Prague, Czech Republic, October 2014 Participants: DISCIT Consortium Members and Members of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and the European Stakeholder Committee (ESC) Arrival of participants: Wednesday, 01 October 2014 Venue: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, Magdalény Rettigové 4, Praha 1, Czech Republic Organisation: Hana Borová, Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department for research and scientific activities, phone , hana.borova@pedf.cuni.cz 1

2 Programme Thursday, 02 October 2014, 09:00 17:30 From 08:30 Registration Facilitation: Bettina Uhrig, HiOA NOVA, Norway 09:00 09:10 Welcome and organisational information Jan Šiška, Charles University 09:10 09:30 State of the DISCIT project and objectives for the Midterm Workshop Bjørn Hvinden, HiOA - NOVA 09:30 10:30 Policies, programmes and projects with and for persons with disabilities 1) Developments at EU level Erzsebet Foldesi, EDF 2) Identifying options for developing new EU policies to promote Active Citizenship for persons with disabilities a European stakeholder perspective Jean-Luc Simon, DPI-Europe 10:30 11:00 Coffee/tea break 11:00 13:00 The life course interviews with persons with disabilities experiences and results During this session we will focus on the experiences with the life-course interviews with persons with disabilities and the main findings from the interviews in each of the countries. Introduction: Rune Halvorsen, HiOA - NOVA Short country reports from interviewers (max. 10 minutes each) Anemari Karačić and Andreas Sturm, University of Cologne, Germany 2

3 Jan Šiška and Šárka Káňová, Charles University, Czech Republic Jennifer Kline, NUI Galway, Ireland Federico Ciani and Giampiero Griffo, ARCO PIN University of Florence, Italy Rafael Lindqvist and Marie Sépulchre, Uppsala University, Sweden Victoria Schuller and Bruno Trezzini, Swiss Paraplegic Research, Switzerland Ned Coleman-Fountain, University of York, United Kingdom Maja Popovic and Milan M. Markovic, Mental Disability Rights Initiative, Serbia Anna M. Kittelsaa and Rune Halvorsen, HiOA - NOVA, Norway Facilitation: Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez, University of Oviedo, Spain 13:00 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 16:00 Four parallel working groups Results based on the life course interviews and their implications for the next scientific Deliverables During this session participants will report on the cross-national variation in the findings from the life-course interviews and will discuss preliminary findings from the cross-national comparisons based on the interview reports as well as ideas for the next steps in the development of the analyses. A.1 Change and current status in the life course of persons with psycho-social disabilities (D4.2) Input, facilitation and report: Rafael Lindqvist and Marie Sépulchre, Uppsala University A.2 Diversity and change in the labour market careers of persons with disabilities (D5.2) Input, facilitation and report: Roy Sainsbury and Ned Coleman- Fountain, University of York A.3 Change and diversity in community living in Europe the experiences of persons with disabilities (D6.2) Input, facilitation and report: Jan Šiška, Šárka Káňová and Julie Beadle- Brown, Charles University 3

4 A.4 Active Citizenship through the use of new technologies the experiences of three generations (D7.2) Input, facilitation and report: Eilionoir Flynn and George Anthony Giannoumis, NUI Galway 16:00 16:30 Coffee/tea break 16:30 17:15 Reports/inputs from the working groups Facilitation: Marta Szebehely, Stockholm University, Sweden 17:15 17:30 Active Citizenship by Fiscal Innovation results and next steps in Work Package 8 (D8.1 and D8.2) Short presentation: Sinéad Keogh, NUI Galway 19:00 Joint Dinner Friday, 03 October 2014, 09:00 15:00 Facilitation: Bettina Uhrig, HiOA - NOVA 09:00 09:40 General Assembly, including Board meeting Participants: representatives from the Consortium Members Publication plans, dissemination activities and collaboration with the European Commission Bjørn Hvinden and Bettina Uhrig, HiOA - NOVA Publication example: Special Issue International Review of Law Computers & Technology (Issue Number 2-3 of 2015) Short presentation by George Anthony Giannoumis, NUI Galway 09:40 10:00 Coffee/tea break 4

5 10:00 10:30 Interviews with other informants topic guide and planned implementation Introduction by Bjørn Hvinden, HiOA - NOVA Comments by all participants 10:30 12:00 Four parallel working groups on the interviews with other informants Having collected data about the perspectives of persons with disabilities, the project will also collect data from a limited number of other informants (policy experts and DPOs). During this session participants will discuss the knowledge gaps and important information that is missing on the external conditions for exercising Active Citizenship (AC). B.1 Facilitation and report: Ewa Wapiennik, Academy of Special Education, Poland and Nena Georgantzi, AGE Platform Europe B.2 Facilitation and report: Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez, University of Oviedo, Spain and Carlotta Besozzi, EDF B.3 Facilitation and report: Barbara Murray, ILO and Kapka Panayotova, ENIL B.4 Facilitation and report: Camille Latimier, Inclusion Europe and Jan Monsbakken, Rehabilitation International 12:00 13:00 Lunch 13:00 13:30 Short presentations from the working groups and comments by all participants Facilitation: Peter Blanck, BBI, Syracuse University, United States 13:30 13:40 Active Citizenship as Political Participation the next steps in Work Package 9 (D9.2) Short presentation: Anne Waldschmidt, University of Cologne 13:40 14:10 Proposal for a set of indicators for Active Citizenship Jerome E. Bickenbach, Swiss Paraplegic Research Comment Jan Tøssebro, HiOA - NOVA 5

6 14:10 14:40 Barriers to the Exercise of Active EU Citizenship by Persons with Disabilities: The Right to Free Movement Lisa Waddington, Maastricht University, Netherlands Comment Eilionoir Flynn, NUI Galway 14:40 15:00 Summing up and next steps Bjørn Hvinden, HiOA - NOVA Concluding comments All participants 6

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