1. “Setting Up a CIL” - FD2017 Status Quo in Greece
Independent living definition is unknown, with only a few references
Attempts for accessibility improvements and social inclusion have taken place, mainly towards a wrong path
There is no reference to the personal assistant (PA) notion, there is no PA budget, not even PA legislation
Each family is supporting the person to live “independently”, with the only alternative being a life in an institution
“Setting Up a CIL” - FD2017

2. Status Quo in Greece
Independent living definition is unknown, with only a few references
Attempts for accessibility improvements and social inclusion have taken place, mainly towards a wrong path
There is no reference to the personal assistant (PA) notion, there is no PA budget, not even PA legislation
Each family is supporting the person to live “independently”, with the only alternative being a life in an institution

3. i-living founding
✔ Lack of an independent living scheme in Greece and the immediate need for IL dissemination and implementation
✔ 6 young people with severe disabilities, with a common vision regarding the rights of disabled people
✔ Informal IL group creation in 2013
✔ At the end of 2014, the non – governmental organization i-living “Independent Living Organization of Greece” is founded

4. i-living structure Board of Directors Executive Committee
Regular members (disabled persons only)
Audit Committee (disabled persons only)
Associate individual members (mainly parents of disabled children)
Volunteers

5. i-living targeting ✔ UNCRPD implementation monitoring
✔ Independent Living philosophy spreading
✔ UNCRPD implementation monitoring
✔ Protection of the rights of disabled persons
✔ Raising the awareness for disabled persons, regarding their rights to live independently
✔ IL regulatory framework creation, PA scheme implementation

6. i-living targeting axes
Emancipation and informal education of disabled persons
Raising disability awareness for the Greek society
Coalitions with Greek and European organizations that have the same vision
Lobbying the correspondent ministries, as also the European Institutions

7. i-living‘s current achievements
✔ 2013: Founding members participation at the Freedom Drive (Strasbourg), under the leadership of Stelios Kympouropoulos
✔ Quarterly members newsletter
✔ Publication of various IL articles to the Greek media
✔ 2015: Creation of a video that depicts the current situation of IL in Greece, in contrast to a fully developed IL scheme

8. i-living‘s current achievements
✔ 2015: European Independent Living day interactive informational event in 7 Greek cities
✔ 2015: Participation to the Brussels Freedom Drive with a group of 26 persons
✔ 2016: Freedom School in Belgium for young disabled persons, co-organized by correspondent NGO’s in Belgium, Greece and Norway

9. i-living‘s current achievements
✔ European Independent Living day 2017:
➔Informational event in Athens
➔Online research event for personal assistance in Greece
➔IL video projection at the Greek metro stations, as also at the Greek highways’ informational monitors

10. Five Basic Principles for a Changing World
Dynamic capabilities
A continually changing organization
A people-centric approach
An ambidextrous organization
An open organization that networks with its surroundings

11. Five Basic Principles for a Changing World
Dynamic capabilities
Include the ability to
sense and shape opportunities and threats
seize opportunities
and maintain and reorganize resources as needed

12. Five Basic Principles for a Changing World
A continually changing organization
If you delay taking action until problems arise, you will act too late.
The organization should be permeated with a proactive approach to change

13. Five Basic Principles for a Changing World
A people-centric approach
This principle is based on the belief that people want and need to be creative
and that an organization must provide a setting in which they can exercise their creativity

14. Five Basic Principles for a Changing World
An ambidextrous organization
Organizations combine two different forms of organizational logic to optimize
daily functioning, which works best with a conventional planning-and-control approach,
and innovation, which requires greater freedom, flexibility, and a more open attitude toward experimentation
The organization should not only balance these two forms of logic but utilize the energy inherent in the contrast between them

15. Five Basic Principles for a Changing World
An open organization that networks with its surroundings
An organization can be more or less open to integration with its surroundings.
While no organizations are totally closed systems with distinct borders that separate them from the world beyond, they can have more or less permeable boundaries that affect their ability to exchange information and knowledge with their surroundings
Long-term survival requires that organizations develop into more openly networked systems

16. Thank you for your attention!!!

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