Nice, having initiated a transformation policy to make the city of Nice accessible to everyone and eager to “simplify the daily life of people with reduced mobility,” Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, President of the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis, will participate in the award ceremony, accompanied by Sandrine Filippini, his Deputy for Disability. Friday, March 16, 2012, at 6:30 PM at Acropolis.
The citizenship of disabled persons requires that Municipalities and Public Establishments for Intermunicipal Cooperation make existing transport systems, roads, public spaces, and public buildings accessible by 2015.
In 2010, the French Association of Paralyzed Persons (Alpes-Maritimes delegation) launched the “APF 06 Reflex Handicap – Accessibility Prize,” divided into five categories, to reward the work of communes with more than 5,000 inhabitants in the department that have demonstrated their commitment to complying with the 2005 law.
This year, APF 06 is renewing this distinction with the “REFLEX HANDICAP APF 06 – ACCESSIBILITY PRIZE 2012.”
Five distinctions will be awarded:
- The “APF 06 Reflex Handicap – Accessibility Prize 2012”;
- The prize for municipal facilities;
The Municipal Policy prize;
The “project” prize;
The “coup de cœur” prize.
By awarding these prizes, the French Association of Paralyzed Persons wishes to remind everyone that issues related to disability are genuine local challenges and that making a commune accessible is necessarily a challenge to be integrated into the general policy of planning and sustainable development.
21 of the 27 communes with more than 5,000 inhabitants in the Alpes-Maritimes that participated in this operation were thus visited for the attribution of this Accessibility Prize. The jury’s selection was based on the responses given to a questionnaire and a visit during which the jury members could assess the improvements actually made.
The APF jury’s first visit in the department took place in Nice on January 26, at Place du Pin.
