Students from the master's degree in cultural management in our branch campus in Cuenca organized the forum "Problems and needs of people with disabilities to access culture and heritage". The aim is to analyze the situation that people with disabilities have to face, their participation within cultural manifestations and access to heritage.

This meeting helped identify the different experiences and points of view of participants about people with disabilities, focusing on the need for integration and accessibility at a social, cultural, architectural level, in addition to recognizing the strengths that said social group possesses.

The topics were: the problems and needs faced by people with disabilities in the participation and prominence in cultural events in the city of Cuenca and the province; initiatives that are developed from associations, federations or civil society in the field of access to culture and heritage and finally, how cultural managers can contribute to the access and participation of people with disabilities in art and culture.

The event was attended by Blas Garzón, director of the Master's degree in Cultural Management; Ximena Arpi, representative of the Territorial Technical Office of CONADIS in Azuay; Sandra Vásquez, vice president of FEPAPDEM; Lucía Catalina Ávila, regional representative of FEPAPDEM and Jaime Sarmiento, professor of Heritage and Accessibility.