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The Institute for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities participated, on July 8, in the PIONEER Festival, held at Iscte and dedicated to the theme “Addressing urban societal challenges”. Iscte is one of the ten higher education institutions that are part of the European University Alliance PIONEER.

The Alliance seeks to bring together universities, local partners and international networks to develop replies to concrete problems of cities and the people who live in them. The work is based on collaboration, knowledge sharing and the joint creation of solutions with an impact on the territories.

Throughout the Festival, projects were presented in the areas of housing, dementia care, urban resilience, international mobility and academic entrepreneurship. Some initiatives have paid particular attention to persons with disabilities, older persons and other groups in vulnerable situations, including the need to ensure accessible and adequate responses to risks and emergencies.

The participation of IDiPD, IP allowed to know better the initiatives developed within the scope of PIONEER and identify areas of possible collaboration with Iscte, namely in accessibility, housing, mobility, autonomy, digital inclusion and response to risk situations.

Concrete forms of collaboration and cooperation are still under discussion and definition. This link could help develop initiatives closer to the problems experienced by people with disabilities, bringing together scientific knowledge, institutional experience and the participation of people themselves and their organisations.