"<< Background >>BACKGROUND AND CURRENT SETTING“1982, United Nations Year of People with a Disability,” is a landmark for the cultural accessibility of people with disabilities. A number of seminal projects sprouted up around that time. The museum of Lons-le-Saulnier, France, usedbodily re-enactment of scenes represented in paintings to introduce people with severe physical disabilities to the history of art, the Washington Metropolitan Ear (Washington, DC) took audio description into theatres and Japanese broadcaster NHK begun transmitting audio described TV programs. In London, Gina Levete pioneered movement workshops with a range of severely disabled people, and founded Shape, an arts development agency for disability and the arts, whichemploys some twenty people today.The road to cultural accessibility has always been bumpy. How are we to assess the extent of changes over the past 40 years, since 1982? Put simply, measures of cultural accessibility do not exist at a national and international level. They ought to be user-focused and assess whether “significant and lasting improvements” have been achieved. The absence of such measures is but one sign of a prevailing culture of neglect for cultural accessibility within national cultural administrations.We cannot in any way speak of “significant improvements” in museum access, for instance, for deaf people, when only a handful of museums in any country provide very limited information in Sign Language. One could call it cultural starvation.Cultural funding remains deeply discriminating. Over the past ten years, tens of billions have been spent worldwide on prestigious new museums and major extensions. As a rule, intellectual and sensory access to collections to people with a sensory disability or with learning disabilities is extremely poor. Few conscious efforts are being made to bring the best of the world’s fabulous cultural collections accessible within reach of people with a disability. Too often public funding is mis-used to maintain and strengthen cultural segregation. Worldwide cultural accessibility and inclusive design of cultural services remain an after-thought.<< Objectives >>European Cultural Heritage has a big role to play in building the future of Europe. In this regard, because it is important to preserve and pass on to future generations, this project wants to reach out to both people with disabilities (PWD), improving their access to culture, and current and future workers in museums, galleries, etc. Accessibility to cultural heritage (CH) is not only a basic human right, but also a fundamental strategy for the valorisation and promotion of heritage.""Accessibility of cultural heritage for All"" is a multidisciplinary area not widely taught across different European study programmes (according to a preliminary analysis), with relevance to areas such as museology, special education, pedagogics, heritage interpretation, archaeology, history, arts, architecture, inclusive and universal design and ICT. Most of them are separate disciplines that should work hand in hand when speaking about accessibility of CH, but they mostly operate in isolation and do not share teaching practice about the needs of PWD. Therefore, professionals entering positions in museums and galleries are not equipped with the knowledge and experience to make their environments more engaging and accessible.With the context of the above, the project aims:- to help museums to have a greater understanding of the needs of PWD visitors and implement necessary changes and improvements in the environment and in attitude- to share best practices in improving skills and competences of cultural institutions and students to work with PWD in order to improve their access to CH;- to establish collaborative partnerships between all the stakeholders- to put forward innovative accessibility solutions, which allow PWD to fully enjoy CH- to engage PWD as advisors, co-creators and evaluators of proposed accessibility solutions- to develop pilot projects that can serve as an inspiration for other stakeholders- to lead by example, raise awareness, stimulate ideas and invite others to actPARTICIPANTSThe project involves 6 countries, 7 project partners and 20 associated partners incorporating experienced Project Managers, academics, researchers, and the CURABILITY target groups. Main target groups are ART & CULTURE LOVERS WITH DISABILITIES (at least 60 directly involved) and CULTURAL WORKERS (at least 60 directly involved). And the final beneficiaries are PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (at least 20 directly involved) from partner countries.Wider stakeholder groups, such as media, decision makers and certification bodies will be addressed with the expected number of stakeholders reached to be >5000 EU wide.<< Implementation >>In order to reinforce the production of 4 qualitative & inclusive results, 3DONSET consortium is going to implement the following activities: A1: Overall coordination of the project – P1 A2: Development of Quality Management Plan & quality controls –P4A3: Daily management - All partners A4: Organization of meetings – P2 (TM1), P5 (TM2), P1 (TM3), P1 (TM4)A5: Collection & provision of documents for the interim & final report to the NA – all A6: Dissemination (P2/P5) exploitation activities (P7)A7: Creation & maintenance of project website –P2A8: Preparation of 6-newsletters, of a petition & a campaign & Decalation to the ECTherefore, the allocation of activities, tasks & roles among the partners that follow within the Project Management & Implementation sphere are the following: P1: will be responsible for the overall management. They will also oversee the following activities: - Set at the beginning a project Handbook where all the main information about the project is described in detail & updated from time to time following the actual implementation of the project. - Set a Steering Committee group - Develop the project management processes in terms of voting rules, non-compliance procedures, progress monitoring - Set the tools & procedures for the communication & sharing of documents - Check the actual implementation of the work program defining deadlines, to-do list for the implementation of results, & those related to dissemination, administration, quality,management P4: as Quality Manager, will be responsible to set up all the activities related to the quality assurance procedures of project implementation, setting tools, procedures & tasks for the smooth development of projectactivities & achievement of results according to standards. A first overview of the activities that will run under quality assurance has been described in the draft attached as an Annex to this form. In any case the most important are: - Establish the peer review committee, procedures & tasks, needed for the constant monitoring of the qualitative & quantitative standards to be achieved, to deliver high-quality Results- Evaluation of meetings - Quality control of the contractual results & relative procedures - Risk & contingency plan - Performance indicators P2: will be responsible for setting up a dissemination strategy, but some of the operational actions will be assigned to P6. Dissemination will start from the beginning of the project, building up the foundation for the consecutive exploitation and sustainability of the project. The activities for the dissemination can be summarized as follows: - Setting up of the plan - Preparation of the tools- Development of the graphic identity - Guide partners in the establishment of their internal dissemination strategy - Create & increase the stakeholders’ databaseP7: will setting up the sustainability plan. -Develop the exploitation plan and the strategy for further development, improvement & sustainability of the project outcomes in terms of efforts, resources & activities necessary to be undertaken.<< Results >>In most EU countries, especially nowadays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, youth unemployment rates doubles overall unemployment rates. The EC communication ""Investing in Europe´s Youth"" indicates that action is needed to provide: Better opportunities to access employment; Better opportunities through education and training and better opportunities for solidarity, learning mobility and participation. CURABILITY addresses all 3 areas.The project pioneers to design, pilot-test & evaluate the CURABILITY PROGRAMME which will be accompanied with:- Museums as Role Models (live:docs) (accessible narratives of services in partners' cities museums)- Webinars for Accessible Curators: a combination of theory, practical assignments & hands-on tools to ideate, design & prototype a cultural accessible art place- The CURABILITY COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, a platform containing teaching & learning material regarding cultural accessibiliy- The CULTURAL VADEMECUMS FROM THE LOCAL TO THE EU LEVELfocusing on the design of the exploitation strategy which will ensure sustainability of products, further exploitation and expansion based on the idea of the 'CURABILITYMOVEMENT'- the ON-LINE ASSESSMENT TOOL ‘CURABILITY CHALLENGE' in the form of a GENIE as part of online accessible platform. - a strong CAMPAIGN namely ""BE CURABLE!,""The project will include all the necessary results to be coherent & successfully implemented. The partners will also deliver the following results:- Project Management Plan that will include specific initiations & guidelines on project management, time & resources allocation, communication process & the quality plan.- Quality Assurance plan covering the overall course of the project to make sure all activities are undertaken in an effective way leading to desired results based on the quality standards agreed upon among the partners.- Dissemination, Exploitation & Sustainability Plan that will outline & set an action plan for all the dissemination activities of the project, while it will also outline specific guidelines on how to secure the sustainability of the project after its completion.- Meetings’ Minutes (4 F2F & 8 Skype) delivered by the partners’ meeting host organisation, in collaboration with the project coordinator.- Reports (e.g. activity, financial, dissemination) as requested by the partnership agreement & the management plan based on which the progress & final reports will be based on to showcase thedevelopment of the project in comparison to the Gantt Chart.- Dissemination Logs where all activities related to the project will be communicated to the Coordinator every 6 months. These will be included in the progress reports.Other results to be produced, during & on CURABILITY completion are:- Project logo, website, FB, Instagram.- Multiplier events (1 for each cultural or disability centre) for the target group & project stakeholders in the framework of the dissemination & exploitation of activities in each country.- Creation & distribution of informative printed & signed material- 7 Newsletters developed & disseminated after important project milestones to be translated in all partner languages, distribute to stakeholders through a massive email system, upload on the project website & social media accounts.- 140 users of the online platform by the end of the project.- 70 users of the CURABILITY Chat Forum.- Experts to offer guidance & support.- 2000 signatures to be collected to support the declaration/ petition- 70 posts to be uploaded on social media.- 70 articles, activities to be uploaded on the e-DATA BANK."