CRPD DATABASE
EBU works to ensure an effective implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
CURRENT CAMPAIGNS
EBU carries out ongoing campaigns at EU level on key issues to our community to ensure that EU law takes into account as fully as possible our rights and demands for an inclusive society with equal opportunities for all.Creative Europe/MEDIA funding to the film industry
Visually impaired persons enjoy films or documentaries as much as everyone else, but in order to fully understand them they need audio description and audio subtitling for what is shown on the screen.
We believe that public funding and in particular MEDIA funding to the film industry should be granted only to projects that will create a version with audio description and audio subtitling. But as an intermediate realistic step, we ask that, for the period 2021-2027 the Creative Europe Programme and annual work programmes include audio description and audio subtitling among the selection and award criteria for MEDIA funding, and at least 25% of films that receive MEDIA production or distribution funding have an audio description and audio subtitling in the languages of the production.
Other Campaigns
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
EBU carries out specific activities related to our strategic plan, and many of these thanks to financing from the EU, details of which can be found in the following section.EBU Statement on the European Elections 2024
With this Statement, we call on candidates and political parties from all countries to pay attention, in the campaign for the European elections of 2024 and, if elected, during the following five years, to the expectations of blind and partially sighted persons in Europe, in line with the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Other Activities
- EBU-ECB and the Euro
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
- Awareness-raising on blind and partially sighted persons’ rights
- Accessible Voting
- Braille Promotion
FINISHED CAMPAIGNS AND ACTIVITIES
You will find below our recently finished campaigns and activities. We also worked on areas not mentioned on this page (e.g. assistive devices, access to museums, teaching languages). Please contact us for more information at ebu@euroblind.org.
REC19
In 2019, EBU and its members carried out activities to foster the development of an inclusive Europe, where blind and partially sighted (BPS) citizens have the same rights and opportunities as other citizens.
Other Activities
- VISAL
- Intergenerational Knowledge Exchange (INTERGEN)
- eVADER
- The European Accessibility Act
- Silent Cars