In the face of challenges like the pandemic, climate anxiety, and financial concerns relating to the cost-of-living increases across Europe, it has become essential to both have a solid understanding of, and actively promote, mental health and wellbeing. These are the fundamental goals of the current European Mental Health Week, which runs from 22 to […]
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In debates about addressing the place of persons with disabilities in society, the notion of inclusion has come to the fore. An ‘inclusive’ society adapts to the specifics of the individual, going beyond her needs to give her all the possibilities of success in life. Inclusion thus depends, for its full realisation, on a collective mobilisation as well as the willpower of social, political and economic organisations to achieve the integration of the most vulnerable.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, many companies have manifested a social contribution not only by donating medical equipment and helping the most disadvantaged, but also by investing large amounts of money in preserving employment and in manufacturing masks, respirators, gels and other indispensable health products. Beyond that, though, questions have increasingly been asked about the world after the crisis. Will everything return to normal? Was that normality really ‘normal’