To help EDF members and other disabilities advocates negotiate strong adoption of the Accessibility Act by their governments, EDF organises this webinar to: • provide an overview of the Act, including its scope, objectives, monitoring and enforcement mechanisms, the role of the national surveillance authorities; • advise organisations of persons with disabilities on how to effectively advocate for ambitious transposition of the Act. We will base our recommendations on the EDF toolkit for transposition of the European Accessibility Act, which we will publish before the webinar.

The aim is to raise the debate about how EU institutions could make sure they are also fostering the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. Speakers Stefan Trömel – Senior Disability Specialist at the International Labour Organization (ILO), Rebekka Wiemann – Equal Opportunities Officer at the Council of the European Union, Silvia Muñoz – Project Manager at Plena inclusión and Katrin Langensiepen …

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The European Disability Forum, and Lebenshilfe would like to invite you to take part in the Conference ‘COVID 19 and Disability’ on October 30th, 2019; is is open to all, to participate online and will explore the impact of COVID 19 on persons with disabilities in Europe. We will also draw up recommendations for policy makers at National and European level.

The Conference will be in German and English, and there will be live captioning in German and English. There will be Interntional Sign language interpretation.