The NPO LAB: Social Impact Lounge is a project from the Roscongress Foundation’s social platform to integrate a social agenda into its major business forums.
The NPO LAB is a unique communications space bringing together non-profit organizations, business, and government to discuss current issues surrounding social development.
At the Eastern Economic Forum, the NPO LAB will be tasked with identifying priority challenges for the Russian Far East, together with effective technologies for solving them in socially significant areas: tackling demographic issues and the development of human capital, improving eco-efficiency and responsibility, implementing programmes to support an active lifestyle in old age, creating an inclusive environment, and strengthening the role of women in sustainable social development.
Building A, level 6, NPO LAB: Social Impact Lounge
Inclusion
Ensuring equal access to public facilities and services for people with disabilities, and creating an environment that facilitates their integration into the society and improves their quality of life is one of the most pressing challenges faced by government social policy. However, simply building the appropriate infrastructure is not sufficient to enable people with disabilities to fully engage. It is necessary to create a culture where people with disabilities are treated appropriately and, more importantly, where people with disabilities feel included and able to live an active lifestyle.
How can cinema, theatre or music be used to help people with disabilities integrate and socialize?
What are the most successful examples of projects designed to establish an inclusive environment, including increasing the accessibility of cultural institutions?
Which interesting international practices exist in this area?
How can social communication help to improve sociocultural inclusion?
Moderator:
Elina Tikhonova, TV presenter, RBC
Speakers:
Ksenia Dmitrieva, Head, Osobiy Vzglyad (Special View) Programme, Art, Science, and Sport Charitable Foundation
Maria Antonova, Audio Describer
Anna Yakovleva, Director of Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre
Yuri Bausov, Chairperson, Association of Youth Disability Organisations
Elena Grekhova, Chairperson, Primorsky Territory Federation of Sports for People with Musculoskeletal Disorders
Olesya Fedortsova, Director, Champion Kamchatka Sporting Dog Breeding Club
Yulia Zimova, Member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
