ABSTRACT
The topic of this conference Transforming Disability into Ability, puts the focus on an exciting challenge. From a labour market point of view, the challenge consists in creating opportunities for persons with disabilities, to change from being objects. Many people with disabilities are presently denied both their rights and duties that come with complete citizenship. Our traditions and cultural values give people many benefits, but also create mental barriers, both in disability policies and in labour market policies. In the wider political context, for example when the objectives of national or international labour market policies are under discussion, one very seldom finds representatives of rare experiences involved in the process. If the labour market shall be able to safeguard the working capacity of every citizen, it has to focus on the varying conditions for individuals to carry out work.
