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Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets or DREAM is a training network for early stage researchers stemming from the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network Funding Programme. The primary aim of DREAM is to professionally develop and educate the next generation of disability policy researchers and entrepreneurs to assist the EU and its Member States in their efforts to implement the UN CRPD at EU and Member State levels. This will involve exploring options for European Union disability law and policy reform in light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)

The idea behind DREAM is premised on the insight that respecting disability rights is not only good in itself but helps create economic opportunities for over 60 million European citizens with disabilities and also expands markets for European business.

Fourteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will be recruited across the network on a full-time basis over three years and will explore and develop recommendations for European Union disability law and policy reform in light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006).

The ESRs will be hosted for three years by the Full Network Partners; the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Technosite (Spain), Maastricht University (Netherlands), University of Leeds (UK), NOVA Norwegian Social Research, the University of Iceland and Swiss Paraplegic Research

The ESRs will be provided with rigorous professional development skills to ensure that they can use their research knowledge and be attractive to potential employers in both the private and public sectors.

All of the researchers will also have the opportunity to gain invaluable and funded work experience with leading European civil society groups such as Interights (London), Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (Budapest), the European Disability Forum (Brussels) the European Network on Independent Living (UK), as well as the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions, Burton Blatt Institute in Syrcause University (USA), the World Health Organization (Switzerland) and DIGITALEUROPE (Belgium). This will help sharpen their analysis and lead to policy recommendations that are well grounded in experience.

                                                                                             

 

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