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All people with disabilities face challenges, but statistics show that
women with disabilities in particular face enormous obstacles when simply getting by or looking for a job in modern society.
The EU-funded RisewiseProject is focusing on the challenges of
integrating disabled women into society, and brings together numerous stakeholders, also from non-EU countries, to jointly find solutions through cooperation on a transnational level.
With that in mind, two of the project partners are ENGKAD, the Association of Women with Disabilities (Engelli Kadın Dernegi) and the Middle East Technical University from Turkey.
In Turkey, women constitute a significant part of the population with disabilities, however, their problems resulting from being women and being disabled create a summed disadvantage that had been ignored until very recently.
‘IF YOU WERE NOT LIKE THIS’ – A VISUAL JOURNEY
Researchers are working to identify needs and best practices across
several European countries, comparing female populations with
disabilities of different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
Let’s have a look at an emotional visual journey, depicting what it
means for women with disabilities to live in the modern world, no matter where they come from: ‘IF YOU WERE NOT LIKE THIS’
RISEWISE has been funded by Horizon 2020, the biggest EU research and innovation programme, with € 1.809.000 FUNDING in order to analyse another crucial source of potential discrimination, discrimination on the job market.
In order to tackle this, RISEWISE is applying new research designs and enables the exchange of experience among researchers from international participating institutions, experience
that helps identify and overcome obstacles that women with disabilities face in the job market.
BY TACKLING COMMON OBSTACLES, BOTH WORLDS BENEFIT
Researchers found out that technological and other advances towards the stronger social engagement of people with disabilities ultimately have
positive impacts on the wider population. They yield an immensely positive impact in the whole population as many examples show regarding
how solutions have been transferred to the rest of society in fields such as computer interfaces, ergonomics, didactics, etc.
ICT services and technologies, the legal sector, the business world, the
labour market, social organisations, policymakers and the entertainment
world, all have contributions to make to the empowerment of women with disabilities – and they all stand to benefit in their turn
HORIZON 2020: OPEN TO THE WORLD
Horizon 2020 is the largest multinational programme dedicated to research & innovation and it is ‘Open to the World’. This means that researchers, universities, research organisations or companies from across the globe can apply to participate in the activities of the Work
Programme carried out mainly through calls for proposals. The Work Programme for 2018-2020 represents a major investment of €30 billion, with more than 600 calls for proposals, including a list of 30 international flagship initiatives in areas of mutual benefit.
