Educa4all Project´s main goal was to define/start a process of implementation of the concepts of Universal Accessibility and Design for All in the curricular contents of university studies in Architecture and Civil Engineering, with a clear objective: to ensure that future professionals in architecture and civil engineering obtaining professional competences in accessibility and design for all people after their time at university. This objective responds to a larger one, which is that people with disabilities can enjoy accessible physical environments designed by the professionals of the future. This process followed a logical structure that began with a diagnosis of the situation of accessibility and design for all people within the teaching programmes, followed by the design of a training plan for teaching staff and finally a proposal for the implementation of content on Accessibility and D4ALL within the training curriculum of university studies in architecture and civil engineering. EDUCA4ALL Project has carried out this process with the partner universities (University College of London (UCL), Brunel University of London (BUL), Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV) and University of Bologna (UNIBO)), going through the stages described above and contributing the specificities of each of the participating countries. The intellectual outputs produced respond to each of the three stages of the process described above, and are available for use on the project website. The intellectual outputs generated will serve as tools and models for those universities interested in completing their university curricula in the field of architecture and civil engineering in terms of competences and quality, as well as recycling the training of their teaching staff by offering them training in the field. These intellectual outputs have been developed in parallel to different awareness-raising workshops carried out in the different partner universities of the project, being held as a culmination of the project, during the month of July 2020, the final event of dissemination of the project together with an online awareness-raising workshop of great impact and attendance (it was planned to be held in person in Madrid, but the alert situation caused by COVID19 forced to hold the event on line). The dissemination of results has been important throughout the duration of the project, through social media (more than 25,000 twitter impressions during 2020), EDUCA4all website, face-to-face or virtual international events, press releases, etc... The impact generated has been quite significant, receiving numerous requests for participation and interest from different universities and educational institutions, highlighting the interest generated in Latin America for replication in the Americas. Once the project's execution period is over, work continues on the dissemination of the intellectual results among various universities worldwide, in order to obtain detailed information on existing university contents and to raise awareness among the university community. Therefore, we hope that EDUCA4ALL Project will become a reference for future proposals in order to achieve the ultimate goal of global accessibility of society and, therefore, a fair and equal society for all people.
Educa4all Project has developed a process with the implementation of the concepts of Universal Accessibility and D4All in the Architecture and Civil Engineering curricula as a goal. This process starts with a self-evaluation tool to evaluate the starting situation of the universities (IO1), followed by designing a "training of trainers" to ensure the quality of the implementation and the adequate training of the students (IO2). Finally, the Educational Program adapts its Study Plans by integrating new learning capacities in UA&D4ALL (IO4). The objective is clear: to ensure that future professionals in architecture and civil engineering obtain professional skills in accessibility and design for all people after their time at university. This objective responds to another major one which is that people with disabilities can enjoy accessible physical environments designed by the professionals of the future. The intellectual products generated will serve as tools and models for those universities interested in completing the training curricula of their university studies in architecture and civil engineering in terms of skills and quality, while also recycling the training of their teachers by offering them training in the subject. In order to teach students, teachers must be trained in the subject (and unfortunately, many of them are not trained in accessibility and design for all). These intellectual products have been developed in parallel with various awareness workshops held at the universities partners of the project. Held as a culmination of the project, during the month of July 2020, the final event of dissemination of the project together with an online awareness workshop of great impact and assistance (it was planned to be held in Madrid, but the situation of alert caused by the COVID19 forced to hold this event on line). The dissemination of results has been important throughout the duration of the project, through social networks, the project's web portal, international events in person or virtually, press releases, etc. The impact has been really important given the innovative nature of the project when considering accessibility not only outside the university (classes, campus, teaching materials, ...) but from within the content to be taught to students which definitely also influences the training of teachers in the subject. Therefore, the EDUCA4ALL project is and must be a reference for future proposals in order to achieve an ultimate goal that is the global accessibility of society and therefore, a fair and equal society for all people.