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DISABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Not everyone can become a teacher, politician, engineer, diplomat, doctor, pilot, truck driver, policeman; however, no one is exempt from the possibility of being born or becoming disabled. In a nation that has equality among all citizens as its constitutional principle, it is the ethical duty and interest of society to improve the living conditions of the disabled, implementing what is written in our Constitution. With its Disability Section, CIRPS intends to provide an academic contribution of research and higher education, but also industrial, economic, medical, legal and social consultancy, in order to develop projects aimed at improving the living conditions of the disabled.
The activity of the Section, and that carried out in collaboration with other Sections of the Centre and with external institutions and bodies, also at European and international level, has as its central points the economic, social and technological study. This approach, in connection with the analysis of all the other aspects involved in the population concerned, intends to provide operational and innovative contributions useful for improving the living conditions – individual and collective – of the disabled. It should be emphasized that it does not seem at all obvious that the above activities involve additional costs for the state coffers. In this regard, CIRPS has coined a significant term to define the new possible scenarios: the D-Economy, Disability Economy. Exploring it, even if only in its first contours, the CIRPS shows that a new branch of the economy can be created, capable of increasing the national GDP by up to 3-4 percentage points. And we should not overlook the consideration that putting the disabled at the centre of society (4 million individuals in Italy and 87 million in the EU) leads to a decisive improvement at an individual and collective level in the quality of life of the whole society.
MEMBERS OF THE SECTION:
Coordinator: Dr. Marco Cucchiarelli
– Luigi MANSI
– Vincenzo NASO
– Andrea MICANGELI
– Marco BOZZETTI