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CAP4Access

Collective Awareness Platforms for Improving Accessibility in European Cities & Regions

First CAPS Concertation Meeting

Brussels, 4 February, 2014

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Project focus & target groups

Focus: u Accessibility of the built environment to people with limited

mobility u People in wheelchairs, with walking aids, push-chairs etc.

Target groups: u End-users, i.e. people requiring enhanced accessibility u Grassroots initiatives supporting people with disabilities;

policy-makers, planners and service providers with responsibility for the built environment; and the general public.

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Project objectives

The project will develop online tools and methods for: u Documentation, annotation and discussion of locations and

routes within the built environment according to their accessibility;

u Visualising the data in ways which are intuitive and highly attractive for target users;

u Route planning and navigation for target users; u Creating awareness and preparing effective measures at local

level for eliminating barriers for people with limited mobility.

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Project partners

Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI), Vienna

Polibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia

Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis & Information Systems,

St.Augustin

Sozialhelden e.V., Berlin

University of Heidelberg, GIScience Research Group

MappingForChange, London

Elche City Council, Spain

empirica Bonn (Coordinator)

University College London, Accessibility Research Group

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Project timeline January 2014 January 2015 January 2016 December 2016

Workpackage Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36WP1Conceptual and methodological framework

WP2 User community engagement, use case development, participatory evaluationWP3 Participatory development of CAP4access tools & applicationsWP4 Policy recommendations

WP5 Exploitation and dissemination

WP6 Project management

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Public Relations

Project platform MyAccessible.EU

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Proposals for synergies between CAPS projects

●  Identify elements in other CAPS projects which are (potentially) related to social inclusion ●  In particularly targeting people with disabilities ●  Accessibility of the built environment in cities and regions ●  Check if joint approaches can increase visibility & impact

●  Explore harmonised procedures and metrics ●  ... for analysis of CAPS impacts

●  Identify common challenges related to project planning within FP7/H2020 funding frameworks ●  Need for advance planning vis-à-vis user-driven development ●  How to enable truly open-ended RTD?

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Impact assessment: Approaches

●  Degree of participation of the end-user target group ●  Knowledge about target group (universe) required ●  Share of target group participating ●  Intensity of participation (frequency, depth)

●  Extent of awareness about barriers to accessibility (in the built environment) ●  Awareness among the end-user target group ●  Awareness among the general public ●  Awareness among secondary target groups (polcy-makers, planners)

●  Impacts re effective social inclusion ●  Direct: Costs & benefits from the viewpoint of end users ●  Indirect: Removal of physical barriers