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The European Commission is updating the EU Disability Right Strategy in 2025. New actions and flagship initiatives that will be included to help close some remaining gaps particularly in the areas of employment, accessibility and independent living.

2024 has been a remarkable year for AccessibleEU that brought with it powerful experiences full of challenges and rewards. It has been a year of growth with several highlights worth mentioning.

Organised by AccessibleEU and UN Tourism in collaboration with ENAT, Fundación ONCE and Ilunion Accesibilidad, the workshop 'Accessible Tourism: Harnessing the benefits of inclusive destinations for companies and people' will take place on 23 January in Madrid.

This Royal Decree seeks to guarantee equal access and non-discrimination for all persons, especially those with difficulties in understanding and interacting.

This system, still in test phase, includes use of colour to identify spaces, pictograms that comply with international regulations, Easy-to-read, QR codes and consistent signage. It has been validated by persons with intellectual disabilities who are cognitive accessibility experts.

The Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Universal Design (UD2024) have been turned into a book, which is available for download in PDF format. The book includes a total of 60 scientific papers on universal design in several fields.

Vienna won the 2025 Access City Award for its outstanding efforts to making the city accessible for persons with disabilities. Nuremberg (Germany) and Cartagena (Spain) received the second and third prize respectively.

The guidance provides practical recommendations to Member States on the use of EU funding to accelerate the transition from institutional care to community-based services and independent living for persons with disabilities.

In this conference, accessibility experts in Slovenia made a call for the implementation of a common platform to consolidate the country's solutions in accessibility. The conference, where innovative and technological solutions were presented, can now be seen on video.