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Commissioner Quinn hosts CDLP DREAM Meeting

       


EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, met researchers from the Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP) at a meeting in Brussels in November 2011. The meeting was  arranged by the CDLP as part of its EU FP7 DREAM (Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets) Initial Training Network. Professor Quinn and the DREAM consortium offered the Commissioner an overview of their project and the Commissioner spoke to the group about research funding in the EU and, in particular, the next funding phase Horizon 2020.

New MArie Curie Researchers meet NUIG president

Pictured (L-R): President NUIG, Dr James Browne, Magdolna Birtha, Abigail Rekas, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Three leading researchers hailing from Hungary and the United States touched down in Galway this month to begin their three year doctoral studies in a €3.7m European Union Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded, Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets (DREAM) programme, being led by the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway. The PhD students, Magdolna Birtha, Abigail Rekas and Anna Arstein- Kerslake are members of an international team of 14 researchers who will explore options for European disability law and policy reform in light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006).

The Centre for Disability Law & Policy, NUIG, was awarded the grant to direct the Europe-wide network over the next 3 years. Partners in t he network include several leading European universities ranging from Iceland to Spain.  The students will also receive paid placement with leading NGOs such as the European Disability Forum in Brussels. 

The Centre Director, Professor Gerard Quinn, says, “The object of the network is to create the next generation of disability policy entrepreneurs at European level and to generate research that helps the process of implementation of the disability treaty.  We look forward to working with the three new Marie Curie researchers to meet those aims”.

It is understood that this is the single largest EU Framework 7 grant won by a research centre in an Irish Law School.

For more information contact: Marie Kennedy, Centre for Disability, Law & Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway, 091 494011, email marie.kennedynuigalway.ie

 

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