RESC partners with inclusion consultancy Sensability
ETH Zurich’s Competence Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Science (RESC) partners with Swiss inclusion consultancy Sensability. The company offers consulting services by people with disabilities for people without disabilities.
Sensability is a professional Swiss-based company that offers consulting services from people with disabilities to people without disabilities. Sensability is specialized in project- and business development and advises, trains, and sensitizes on issues related to the inclusion of people with disabilities.
Together with their clients, Sensability develops innovative and pioneering solutions for an inclusive and sustainable world. A sustainable world – for us – is a world where ALL can participate.
Sensability established a partnership with the RESC to strengthen the inclusion of people with disabilities in our society. Sensability is convinced of the RESC’s great potential, both on an individual level to promote equality for people with disabilities and on a social level in the design of inclusive structures that allow all people to participate in and shape society.
Oliver Stoller, Executive Director of RESC, says: “The collaboration with Sensability is highly important for the development of research, education and knowledge transfer, all key activities of RESC. Together we will establish inclusive project structures to increase participation of people with disabilities and patients.”
The ETH Competence Centre RESC is a nexus of expertise from academia, hospitals, industry, government, healthcare, disability organisations, and other NPOs. Its mission is to improve the quality of life and participation of people with physical disabilities; thus, contributing towards a more inclusive society. RESC promotes exchange, interdisciplinary research projects, innovative education programmes, and knowledge transfer.
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