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The University of Murcia and the SOI Foundation (Inclusive Leisure Service of Cartagena and Region) have signed on Wednesday the general protocol of action that will allow to continue advancing in the projects on inclusive leisure and disability in the work for six years.

This protocol, signed in the office of the rector, in the La Convalecencia building, will allow carrying out research, training and concrete actions to disseminate and promote that people with intellectual disabilities can enjoy leisure under the same conditions as the rest of the society.

In addition, thanks to this collaboration, students from the University of Murcia will be able to do internships at the SOI Foundation.

The rector of the University of Murcia, José Luján, has expressed his satisfaction because agreements such as the signed affirm "the idea of ​​the University of Muria as an inclusive university".

Luján considers that working for inclusion is one of the functions of the institution "and this is the way".

Joaquín Barberá, president of the SOI Foundation, has remarked that since the foundation "we work for the quality of life of the people" and he recalled that people with cerebral palsy or another intellectual disability "do not have to do what we want, they have their tastes and preferences and have the right to enjoy inclusive leisure with cognitive accessibility ".

Barberá explained that these people not only need access to places of leisure, but also that there are pictograms or adapted information so that they can enjoy the leisure offer as everyone.

Conrado Navalón, promoter of the protocol and professor of Basic Psychology and Methodology of the University of Murcia, has defined the relationship between the SOI Foundation and the University as "a happy marriage" in the path of the search for greater inclusion.

Both he and the vice-chancellor of Employment, Entrepreneurship and Society, Alicia Rubio, have highlighted the intention of the UMU to continue working so that the services offered to society are also adapted to people with disabilities.

Source: Universidad de Murcia