The Zero Project (www.zeroproject.org) is the Essl Foundation’s project which advocates, with a new and innovative approach, the rights of persons with disabilities internationally.
The mission is: working for a world with zero barriers.
The Zero Project is based on the “Essl Social Index Pilot Study” which was published in 2010. The results of, and the experiences gained developing, the pilot study have led to expansion into other fields. The Zero Project creates platforms for sharing and developing models that clearly improve the daily lives, and legal rights, of persons with disabilities.
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1. Zero Project Report
The present Zero Project Report, being published on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December 2011. It will be published either annually or bi-annually in the future, and will summarise all current results of the Zero Project. It will be available in print and also for free download from the Zero Project Website:
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2. Zero Project Website
The Zero Project Website will be officially launched in January 2012. Its design is based on social media and will act as an interactive platform for everyone who is interested in Social Indicators, Good Practice and Good Policy Examples in the field of disability. Participation will be possible in various ways, but with the overarching aim of highlighting the best solutions for creating change for the better. Thus, at this stage, it will focus on Good Practice and Good Policy.
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3. Zero Project Conference
The Zero Project Conference – “International Conference on Good Policies for Disabled People” being organised in partnership with the World Future Council will take place in Vienna on 22 and 23 January 2012 and concentrate on Good Policies.
In a carefully designed research and evaluation process adopted by the World Future Council, eight Good Policies have been selected by the Scientific
Advisory Board to be presented and discussed with 200 international decision-makers in the field of disability policy. For the first time ever, parliamentarians,
representatives of NGOs and foundations, from the European Union and the UN, academics and disability rights activists will come together to discuss inspiring policies from all around the world and to find ways to spread them to other countries.
