Supported by DG Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission Pilot project on actions to mainstream disability policies submitted under the open call for proposals for transnational projects VP/2004/008
"Building accessible services (BAS)" Main aim: to undertake extensive dissemination and training activities in the area of building and urban space accessibility, by means of defined case studies on 15 different types of buildings and their surroundings across the EU. The BAS is intended to be a practical awareness raising and dissemination activity novel methodologies for measuring building accessibility; to provide basic knowledge, tools and methodology for the development of universal design in different education programmes.
Main outputs: showcase of building and urban space accessibility: material collection; material production (for dissemination activities), CDrom (labelled BAS Orange), leaflets, website; demonstration& training& conferences (4 training transnational conferences, 2 enlarged transnational conferences).
Project Leader: Ms Annalisa MORINI, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione (Italy)
Project Officer (Commission): Ms Elizabeth Straw (Elizabeth.STRAW@cec.eu.int)
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RESEARCH POLICIES AND ACCESSIBILITY
1° BAS International Meeting
Location: PTE Expo VERONAFIERE
Sala Salieri
Viale del Lavoro, 8 Verona (Italy)
FIRST RESULTS FROM THE ON-GOING PROJECT
9.30 Welcome and Introduction Valter Esposti, CNR ITC Director and
Elizabeth Straw, BAS Project EU Officer
10.00 The BAS Project and its goals
Annalisa Morini, CNR ITC and BAS Coordinator
10.20 Social and financial returns of accessibility- The case of Greece
Nikos Sakkas, Apintech, Greece
10.40 Welshpool Recycling Centre
Malcolm Fisk, Insight Social Research,
United Kingdom
11.00 Coffee/Tea Break
11.20 Lodz University
Kasia Swiezawska, ASM, Poland
11.40 Leuven Public Administration
Jan Desmyter, Building Research Institute, Belgium
12.00 ROUND TABLE: How BAS can be used by a public body?
Maurizio Angelici, Coordinator of ITACA
Luciano Malfer, Dept. of Social Policies, Province of Trento
Claudio Minoia, Dept. of Social Policies, Province of Milano
13.00 Lunch
14.00 PTE-EXPO Guided Tour
THE ROLE OF ACCESSIBILITY
POLICIES: RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Chairs Eva Caesar, MEOSZ (Network of Associations of People with Disabilities), Hungary and
Sandrine Lejeune, CERTU, Ministry of Infrastructures, France
15.00 Accessibility and Information: approaches in the Master in Assistive Technology of the University of Trieste
Fiorenza Scotti, Luca Davanzo, teachers at the Master in AT of the University of Trieste, Italy
15.15 Enquiry into social studies content of Universal Design research worldwide
Jon Christophersen, Building
Research Institute, Norway
15.30 Control schedule for Universal Design in architecture planning
Karine Denizou, Building Research Institute, Norway
15.45 The contribution of the built environment to policies for people with disabilities
Emilia Conte, Bari Polytechnic Institute, Italy
16.00 Coffee/Tea Break
16.30 Need for research and knowledge exchange in the world of accessibility
Soren Ginnerup, Building Research Institute, Denmark
16.45 Universal Design Education Project in Sweden
Jan Paulsson, Chalmers University, Sweden
17.00 Laying the Foundations for a Viable Research Community
Peter Lansley University of Reading, UK
17.15 The EU.FOR.ME. Project
Annagrazia Laura, Giuseppina Carella, TANDEM, Italy
17.30 Closing Remarks
Valerio Nannini, ICIE, Italy
:.Events
:. From 13/09/2005 13:28 To 24/10/2005 08:00
BAS Second Technical Meeting
BAS Second Technical Meeting: Rome, CNR Research Area of Montelibretti, Monday 24 October 2005 (h 10-18).
:. From 06/06/2005 14:00 To 07/06/2005 13:00 BAS, Meeting
Venue: CNR Brussels Office, rue de la Loi, 26 (see reference web pages with address, maps and guidelines)