Active Citizenship as a Challenge for Operationalisation and Measurement
Channel: DISCIT Research
Date: 2013-02-25

DISCIT Work Package 3 (WP3): Active Citizenship as a challenge for operationalisation and measurement

Leader: Jerome E. Bickenbach, The Swiss Paraplegic Foundation
 
Description: The objective of WP3 is to develop and finalise, on the basis of an extensive review of existing approaches, a survey methodology, a model survey protocol and a framework of analysis for relevant socio-economic and process indicators for Active Citizenship -- including systematic identification of physical, attitudinal and economic barriers to citizenship -- that are relevant to European policy context and usable for monitoring implementation and examining Active Citizenship impacts and outcomes of European policy, and as a step towards more effective multilevel policies to remove these barriers.

DISCIT aims to produce new knowledge enabling Member States, affiliated European countries and the European Union to achieve full and effective participation of persons with disabilities in society and the economy. In investigating the social and political conditions for making such participation a reality, the project adopts a multifaceted understanding of Active Citizenship to operationalise the notion of "full and effective participation" in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.