Multiple discrimination is keeping women with disabilities from reaching their true potential

The European Disability Card will soon be created. The card will help people with disabilities access services both in their countries, and when they travel abroad. To help, the European Commission will give some money to organisations that will do work related to the Disability Card.

Following our recent article related to the creation of a European Disability Card, the European Commission has opened a call for proposals for projects and activities that support this endeavour.

The call will support the launch and start-up up phase of the EU Disability Card in the participating Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Projects should aim to set up or reinforce the respective EU Disability Card national organisations, whose main tasks will be issuing the card and maintaining contact with service providers regarding the benefits to be included. Activities should also help establish the respective national package of benefits that Member States will be ready to mutualise.

Selected actions should be inplemented by 3 December 2016. To read the call for proposals, please click here.