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EVENTS/INITIATIVES

The Barcelona Declaration made its first appearance at the 1995 conference “The City and the Disabled”. This was a major event with high-level Spanish and European support and attended by people from all over Europe. By July 2000, 320 cities and towns had adopted this most important European convention on accessibility so far issued. The Declaration is a simple but powerful document. It has no legal force but, by committing municipal authorities to a wide range of actions, it is a major instrument of change.

Inclusive Design and Intelligent Technology for Accessible Workplaces (IDIA), launched in spring 2002. This European project organised as part of the European Commission’s IST Programme is looking at state of the art Design for All and new cutting edge technologies to determine first in the virtual and then in the real world, how workplaces can be made more accessible.

In December 1999, the initiative “eEurope - an Information Society for All” was launched by the European Commission to bring the benefits of the information society to all Europeans. In June 2000 the subsequent eEurope 2002 Action Plan, adopted at the European Council of Feira, set out a roadmap to achieve eEurope's targets. The point ‘e-Accessibility’ includes the specific target of "ensuring the establishment and networking of national centres of excellence in design-for-all and makes recommendations for a European curriculum for designers and engineers".