Map4Accessibility Project, An Inclusive and Participated Planning of Accessible Cities: Overview and First Results

Map4Accessibility is a recently founded ERASMUS+ project aimed at fostering Higher Educational Institution (HEI) service-learning (SL) through the implementation of various activities for community accessibility mapping to improve physical and digital accessibility of universities and cities. To achieve this purpose, the Map4Accessibility project targets multiple profiles, including higher education students, higher education staff, people with disabilities, elderly people and residents in the areas being mapped. Following the SL criteria, the project adopts a co-design process involving all stakeholders in all parts of the process from issues identification and understanding to the mapping accessibility solution generation. In this contribution, jointly with a global overview of the project, we present the main results of the first work package, related to the facilitation guide for explorative walks and the digital accessibility mapping review. The facilitation guide aims to support students’ evaluation of accessibility issues in different urban contexts following the SL pedagogical approach. The digital accessibility literature and projects have fed some proposals for developing an inclusive citizen science app for accessibility mapping.