Deadline: 8-Sep-22
Across Europe, cities are breaking down barriers for persons with disabilities. Is your city one of them? Then apply for the 2023 edition of the Access City Award.
This Award recognises and celebrates a city’s willingness, ability and efforts to become more accessible for persons with disabilities, in order to:
- guarantee equal access to fundamental rights;
- improve the quality of life of its population and ensure that everybody – regardless of age, mobility or ability – has equal access to all the resources and pleasures cities have to offer.
The winner of the 2023 Access City Award will be announced at the conference to celebrate the European Day of Persons with Disabilities on 24-25 November.
Areas
The juries will consider measures taken and planned in the following areas:
- built environment and public spaces
- transport and related infrastructure
- information and communication, including new technologies (ICTs)
- public facilities and services
Why apply?
- Participating in the Award is an opportunity to gain European recognition and a unique chance to review the current situation in your city.
- It also allows you to share experiences with other European cities, helping you to become an even better city to live and visit.
- Winning cities receive a financial prize:
- 1st prize: €150 000
- 2nd prize: €120 000
- 3rd prize: €80 000
Eligibility Criteria
The Access City Award 2023 will reward three cities. The first place winner is the sole winner of the Access City Award 2023 title. The second and third place winners will also be awarded. This call for entries to the competition for the Access City Award 2023 is open to the following applicants:
- The submitting body must be a governmental authority of a city of over 50,000 inhabitants in one of the EU Member States. A ‘city’ is understood to be an urban area, excluding metropolitan areas, larger urban zones and conurbations, and is understood as an administrative unit governed by a city council or another form of democratically elected governmental body.
- In Member States with less than two such cities/Administrative entities, urban areas composed of two or more towns/Administrative entities may also participate if their combined population exceeds 50,000 inhabitants.
- Past winners of the first place may not apply for a period of five years after they held the Access City Award title for a given year.
- The signatory should be the Mayor or highest-ranking city representative authorised, by national law, to legally represent the city
For more information, visit https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=88&eventsId=1977&furtherEvents=yes#navItem-2