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    Resource List: Projects, Toolkits, and Resources related to Cultural Participation of Persons with Disabilities


    Makhoul, Elodie, Ferri, Delia and Palladino, Alessia (2025) Resource List: Projects, Toolkits, and Resources related to Cultural Participation of Persons with Disabilities. Project Report. Maynooth University.

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    The project ‘Protecting the Right to Culture of Persons with Disabilities and Enhancing Cultural Diversity through European Union Law: Exploring New Paths (DANCING)’ explores the right of persons with disabilities to take part in cultural life as an essential aspect of enhancing cultural diversity in the European Union (EU). The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and is based at Maynooth University (MU), Ireland under Professor Delia Ferri as a Principal Investigator (PI). It explores the extent to which the protection of the right to take part in culture of people with disabilities and the promotion of cultural diversity intersect and complement each other in the EU legal order. On the whole, DANCING deploys interdisciplinary approaches to produce ground-breaking knowledge intended to challenge the cultural exclusion often faced by people with disabilities, contributing to the creation of a more inclusive and culturally diverse European society. DANCING commenced on 1 September 2020 and is due to be completed on 31 August 2025. It comprises four Work Packages (WPs). Within WP1, DANCING has identified and categorised barriers to and facilitators of cultural participation experienced by persons with disabilities and how they affect the wider cultural domain (experiential objective). Within WP2, DANCING has provided a normative exploration of how the EU has used and can use its competence to combat discrimination and its supporting competence on cultural matters, in synergy with its wide internal market powers, to ensure the accessibility of cultural activities, to promote disability identities, while achieving cultural diversity (normative objective). WP3 has aimed at advancing the understanding of the legal concept of cultural diversity, which stems from the intersection of different sources of law, and, in the final phase of the project, articulates a new theorisation of the promotion of cultural diversity within the EU legal order (theoretical objective). The project is underpinned by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which represents the global legal standard on disability rights, and is informed by the human rights model of disability. DANCING also includes a fourth cross-cutting WP (WP4) focused on raising awareness, deploying specific outputs for the general public and producing a number of toolkits and guidelines that aim to advance the understanding of what facilitates cultural participation of people with disabilities, legal change and effective policy responses at the EU level. As part of this WP, as will be discussed in the following subsection, we compiled this Resource List which provides information on existing organisations, projects, outputs and good practices related to culture and disability in a broad fashion, or that concern cultural participation of persons with disabilities.
    Item Type: Monograph (Project Report)
    Keywords: Projects; Toolkits; Resources; Cultural Participation; Disabilities; DANCING;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Law
    Item ID: 19942
    Depositing User: Delia Ferri
    Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2025 11:15
    Publisher: Maynooth University
    Funders: European Research Council (ERC), European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No 864182)
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19942
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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