FIMITIC

The FIMITIC Executive Board attended the International AHNR Seminar
entitled "Accessibility - A Matter of Dignity for the Whole Society", taking place on July 11, 2003 at Hotel Parc in Bucharest.

The FIMITIC Executive Board held its meeting on July 10 and 12 at Hotel Parc in Bucharest on invitation of its Romanian member, the Association of the Neuromotor Handicapped in Romania - AHNR -.

Marking FIMITIC´s fiftieth year in 2003 its Executive Board took the Bucharest meeting opportunity

New content added from the International Seminar o­n "Accessibility - a matter of dignity for the whole society" which took place in Bucharest, Romania o­n the 11th of July 2003.

New content regarding Udine meeting added:

New documents from our members:

• Activity Report from SIRM, Moldavia
• Activity program from ANDST, Portugal
• EYPD 2003 program from PSON, Poland

Feletto Umberto, May 17th 2003.

There was a meeting of disabled persons of Alpe Adria region in Udine. Participants were representatives from disabled organizations from Carinthia (Austria), Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), HSUTI(Croatia) and Slovenia.

The subject of the meeting was "Europe: the Legislations which Rule Disability".

New documents have been posted o­n the website - speeches at Teatro Olimpico in Rome:

The European Declaration Art, Culture, Media and Disability has been launched by EUCREA International on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the European Year of People with Disabilities - EYPD - 2003 in Athens.

This declaration is a methodological tool and a conceptual framework aimed to increase public awareness and to mobilise all the resources and forces for the implementation or lasting measures and cultural policies in favour of disabled people.

• Events,
• Project Work,
• Policy action,
• Search for Funding

Events:

• Equal Rights for People with Disabilities: Report by Hannes Steiger, SIV
• The FIMITIC way in future: elements of a strategic framework of Internet  by Marjan Krofliè, ZDIS
• "All for o­ne, o­ne for all"  by Jean Lapeyre, Deputy Secretary General ETUC
• Europe of Equal Citizens - A Society for All address by Giovanni Pagano, ANMIC president
• Activity Report of the President 2001 - 2003  by