The four pilot actions of CARE Project
Lombardy Regional Administration
The region Lombardy has appointed AIAS Milan (Italian association for Spastic Care) for the implementation of its pilot project, which copes with mobility of disabled people as an instrument for the promotion of culture and as a practice of accessibility for the whole city system.
The model of "hospitable city" goes along with the analysis of accessibility as regards the means of transportation, not only within the city, but also between the latter and the hinterland. The issue of interconnection among the different types of transportation requires a monitoring of accessibility on the whole regional territory, considered as an integrated “system” of public transportation. The analysis will be carried out on a systematic level, covering all types and levels of means of transportation and related facilities (vehicles, trains, aeroplanes and ships) in the whole region. To accomplish this goal it is necessary to plan and realize a series of activities which make up a model of analysis and intervention exportable to other contexts and territories. The starting point will be the collection of data on all networks of public transportation of the region, focusing on their accessibility and that of mutual interconnection systems. It will be necessary to implement a system for data enquiry and acquisition, to involve the various bodies of this field (state, region and local bodies, public and private transportation companies), to standardize control and update procedures for the gathered data. A control board will also be created, and it will be made up of regional officers and experts of accessibility, in order to monitor the development of the project.
The acquired data will be collected in a website and transmitted to the call center “Sportello Disabili Regione Lombardia” (regional counter for disabled people). Therefore it will also be possible to offer real-time reliable information on the possibilities of moving within Lombardy for all disabled people who are interested, both inhabitants of the region and tourists.
Province of Parma
The province of Parma, thanks to its collaboration with the Tourism Department of the Councillorship for the Coordination of Social and Sanitary Policies, with the region Emilia-Romagna and “Si Può” association, has started its project for an accessible tourism named “Parma provincia per tutti” (Parma, a province for everybody), aimed at providing useful data about people with particular food, allergic, physical or age needs, or who have problems with mobility (temporary and permanent).
The gathered data (450 structures detected along the most famous tourist itineraries around Parma) are visible online and on a technical guide in 3 volumes ("Accessible tourism. The Apennines around Parma" and "Hills and Spas around Parma" are already available, while "The river Po and the plain around Parma" is planned).
This is just the beginning of an itinerary within the province of Parma: namely the project, which is a pilot model on a regional basis and a highly innovative experience at national level, is aimed at establishing a local network of integrated services, such as information and online assistance, and also at educating tour operators to welcoming and travel planning.
Venice Card
Venice is a unique city in the world, built on water and connected by hundreds of bridges. It can therefore appear as an inaccessible city and not proper to welcome old people or people with special needs. Fortunately this is not completely true.
A visit to Venice can in fact become feasible to everyone using with care public means of transportation, buses or water-buses, and thanks to available information about itineraries without architectural barriers.
VENICE CARDS Spa issues the tourist ticket VENICE CARD: it is all-inclusive, and gives access to the main tourist services offered by Venice: public transportation (Actv), public toilets (Vesta) and entrance to the Civic Museums of the city. It also grants discounts in many cultural structures and shops of the city.
Municipality of Rimini
Public parks and gardens of any size and everywhere must provide as many services as possible and represent a particularly pleasant and safe place for everybody, in order for them to be appreciated.
The project named “Vengoanch’io” is a sort of implementation of an idea carried out by the municipality of Rimini and Grandi Giardini Italiani (Big Italian Gardens). The implementation includes a guide-project with the scheme of a public garden which is accessible for everybody, with special care for the blind.
Also the idea of converting an existing public garden with such features that allow even a partial implementation of the project has been taken into account. Thanks to the interest and to the availability of the region Emilia Romagna, of the municipality of Rimini and of the European project C.A.R.E., it will be possible to turn this proposal into reality. The public park “F.lli Cervi” has been chosen as suitable for the implementation of the necessary facilities foreseen in the project.
The intervention foresees the adjusting of the current pedestrian path in the 410 metres between the Arco di Augusto and Via Roma, in order to meet the needs of blind people.
