26 September 2014
DISCIT – Midterm Workshop
Achievements and Implications
Prague, Czech Republic, 02 – 03 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, 116 39 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Organisation:
Hana Borová, Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department for research and scientific activities, phone + 420 221 900 213, [email protected]
Programme
Thursday, 02 October 2014, 09:00 – 17:30
From 08:30 RegistrationFacilitation: 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)
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
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 - NOVA09:00 – 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
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
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
