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The project Culture without barriers is to help cultural institutions to adapt their offer to the needs of various recipients and to promote accessibility. Practical solutions will be developed for cultural institutions to adapt to the needs of people with disabilities. Then the model will be tested in 100 cultural institutions selected in the competition - libraries cultural centers and centers galleries and theaters. The value of the project is PLN 25 million. Today in the courtyard of the Museum of King Jan IIIs Palace at Wilanw the Culture without barriers project has been launched.Cultural institutions prepare an accessible cultural event but also build a network of contacts both with each other and with organizations dealing with issues of people with disabilities- said Prof. Piotr Gliski deputy prime minister minister of culture national heritage and sport.The project Culture without barriers received funding from the European Funds under the Knowledge Education Development Program.This is another initiative related to the governments Accessibility Plus Program. We have been observing positive changes for several years. Many cultural institutions have already found out that their offer should be tailored to the needs of various recipients. We offer not only performances classes or productions prepared with children or seniors in mind but also those aimed at e.g. people with specific disabilities. However we still have to work to ensure that there are more places available on the cultural map of Poland- said Magorzata Jarosiska-Jedynak deputy minister of funds and regional policy and chairman of the Accessibility Council.Entities that will receive a grant under the Culture without Barriers project will implement planned projects with the support of the Project Leader and Partners. There will also be an exchange of experiences and an assessment of the effects. After verification the model will be submitted for use by various institutions of the cultural sector. The experiences will be included in a study describing the developed framework model of ensuring the availability of the offer and resources of cultural institutions.Need Culture without barriersThe 2017 survey of the needs of people with disabilities commissioned by the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled People shows that access to culture is one of the needs with little satisfaction. As many as 72 percent of respondents claim that in cultural facilities it is not possible to use sign language. The mismatch between cultural facilities and the needs is also indicated by 36 percent of the surveyed people with movement dysfunctions.The project leader - the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons PFRON will cooperate with a foreign partner which is Institut fur Bildung und Kultur IBK and the Kompetenzzentrum fur Kulturelle Bildung im Alter und Inklusion KUBI operating at it as well as with the Ministry of Culture Heritage National and Sport Foundation and the Culture Without Barriers Foundation.The meeting announcing the Culture without barriers project was attended by Pawe Wdwik - secretary of state in the Ministry of Family and Social Policy Krzysztof Michakiewicz - president of the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Robert Wickowski - vice-president of the Board of the Kultura bez Barier Foundation and Leszek Buller - director of the Center for European Projects .Plus Availability TodayMore than 100 accessibility activities are already underway under the Accessibility Plus Program. The funds that work for availability are already over PLN 8.7 billion. We allocate them for investments in transport education health protection and many other areas. It is also a whole series of training activities addressed to various groups of recipients showing on the one hand what the special needs are and on the other hand what universal design or communication without barriers is all about.For almost 2 years thanks to the Accessibility Plus program the Act on Providing Accessibility to People with Special Needs has been in place. In the public sphere its impact is visible in the constantly increasing number of people with special needs in public facilities including clinics schools cultural institutions adjusted to the needs of the public. Thanks to the act there are over 2000 accessibility coordinators operating throughout Poland who oversee the implementation of statutory requirements.The Accessibility Fund was established which can be used to finance investments and improvements for people with disabilities or seniors. Soon the accessibility certification system will be launched thanks to which more and more places and companies including those related to culture will be able to obtain certificates of an accessible place and facility. So one that cares about the needs of all users.
